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Posted on 07/09/2026 8:50:01 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Russia’s lower-house State Duma on Wednesday passed sweeping legislation tying the legal status of migrant workers and their families to their financial earnings. Under the bills, migrant workers must prove they earn enough to support themselves and dependents according to official subsistence levels set by federal and regional governments.
Falling short, or becoming unemployed, triggers non-renewal or annulment of their temporary low-skilled work “patents,” followed by deportation within 15 days. Migrants will also face a mandatory fixed advance income tax for themselves and each family member. Foreign dependents may remain in Russia only for the duration of the primary worker’s patent.
Children of migrants turning 18 must secure their own work patents or face deportation within 30 days. Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin framed the measures as a direct response to public demands. Mr. Volodin declared they “bring order to migration issues.” He boasted that the Duma has enacted 30 migration-related laws since 2024, reported the Moscow Times.
The legislation, which passed its second and third readings Wednesday, now heads to the Federation Council and President Vladimir Putin for final approval. The Moscow Times
The push follows a surge in anti-migrant sentiment triggered by the March 22, 2024, terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall, which killed more than 140 people and was claimed by an ISIS affiliate. Authorities quickly arrested Tajik suspects, sparking widespread raids on migrant hostels, mass deportations, ethnic profiling, and harassment targeting Central Asians, particularly Tajiks and Uzbeks.
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This article would have us believe people are actually stupid enough to want to emigrate to the hell-hole called Russia??
I’m calling BS on this
NOBODY is that stupid!! (lol)
Sounds brutal, and....very Russian. No surprise.
There are many immigrants from Central Asia working in Russia.
“This article would have us believe people are actually stupid enough to want to emigrate to the hell-hole called Russia??
I’m calling BS on this
NOBODY is that stupid!! (lol)”
Time for you to wake up to the facts. Russia’s economy is hupighly dependent on immigrants labor.
This is exactly what the US used to do at least as late as the 60s. You had to prove you were never likely to become a burden to society. We never should have moved away from that and we should go back to it now. Immigrants should not be eligible for public benefits.
I’m with you on this one.
The population of foreigners living in Russia shrank from 6.3 million to 5.7 million. Most of these are on work permits from other Soviet Republics. 27,000 expat Russians returned. Net migration was -279,000, but this excludes the migrants who made up those 6.3 million foreign workers, so it might be something like 900,000 net loss.
Step up Catholic Church...we will pay you well.
Abel Reyna cryptocurrency fans will have a fit over this.
How many are ethnic Russians who were in Ukraine and either want to go back to the motherland or at least somewhere with less shooting?
“...stupid enough to want to emigrate to the hell-hole called Russia??”
You’d be surprised. Around 600,000 to 1 million migrants relocate to Russia annually, primarily for work, from former Soviet republics like Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. The cost of living is noticeably lower in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan than in Russia. But that also means higher wages and warm fuzzies. We do the same in the US for people like many agricultural workers who can get work permits to come in and then ship products and funds home. The U.S. issues over a million temporary work visas and 140,000 employment-based green cards annually. Additionally, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) grants millions of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs, or federal work permits) to asylees, parolees, and students. Our welfare shows no shortages.
Russia has issued approximately 240,000 work permits to foreigners recently. The Ministry of Labor has set the quota for foreign workers at 278,940 specialists. This system primarily serves skilled workers who need visas, while millions of workers from visa-free countries instead use the “patent” system currently another 245K to the incoming workers.
It may not seem a like a lot compared to the US input, but they control their employment needs better than the US. And it shows just how out of control the US border was for a number of years and is still running amok.
wy69
Under the bills, migrant workers must prove they earn enough to support themselves and dependents
We have between 5 to 10+ million (depending on who you ask) Indians taking jobs from white guys in America right now...
They are pikers compared to us.
Probably lots of incentive to be a productive worker. Otherwise they may be working in a uniform.
I went through the Russian immigration process in 2017-2018. Even at this time, they had “immigration centers”, a centralized place that handled all aspects of the process (application, medical exams, language exams, etc.) for various flows (family-based, quota-based, patents, etc.). The sheer number of people using these centers was pretty impressive. I remember looking it up and learning that Russia is the world’s second-biggest target for immigration after the USA.
I knew a Russian woman, she became a US citizen, yet moved back to Russia.
She said she owned two homes in Russia but since she lived abroad, they tax the hell out of you .
She said selling the property while living abroad is even worse, they project , these are oligarchs, so they tax them ever harder.
Not sure how accurate any of that is but that was her story.
Yep. When my parents came here in the 60s,first they were thoroughly vetted and then they had to have a job waiting for them. And my uncle who sponsored us over was liable for our support if we needed help.
That’s the way it should be.
15 days and you’re gone along with your family. It takes 10 years to get rid of them here.
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