Fines of up to 2.5 million rubles and new rules: how Russia's immigration policy will change.
Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev spoke at the Federation Council about the plans of the Ministry of Interior and the situation with immigration.
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Documents without intermediaries. Only the passport and visa service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the MFC of Moscow will accept foreign documents.
Medical examination - only in government institutions. This will become a mandatory condition for processing immigration documents.
Fines for employers. For the first violation of the immigration rules at construction sites, they offer a fine of 500-800 thousand rubles, for repeated violations - 1.5-2.5 million rubles.
Control through the app. In Moscow and the Moscow region, an experiment with a mobile application helped to reduce the number of crimes related to forgery of documents by three times.
Fewer people entering. During the nine months of 2026, about 7 million foreigners arrived in Russia - 10% less than a year earlier. In total, as of October 1, there were about 6 million foreigners in Israel.
More entry bans. Their number reached 290 thousand - almost twice as many as in 2025. Over the course of three years, more than 5,000 people lost their Russian citizenship, about 7,000 foreigners with children left the country due to violation of the residence rules.
Transit from unfriendly countries. The Ministry of the Interior received over 4,300 applications for a simple temporary residence permit. More than 4,000 foreigners have already received such permits.