New forms of work permits for foreign employees

10.04.2014

By order of the Federal Migration Service, 10 new blank forms of work permit for foreign citizens and stateless persons were approved. All the blank forms are secured printed products with a high level of protection against forgery, and renders all the previous forms invalid.

Special blanks forms are set for the following categories of foreigners:
•    highly qualified specialists;
•    persons engaged in the project “Skolkovo”, studying full-time in universities and colleges (for accredited programs);
•    foreigners (stateless persons ) who are directed to branches, representative offices or subsidiaries (which are located in Russia) by commercial organizations that are registered in member-states of the WTO.
Each category includes separate forms for foreigners who arrived either via a visa or a visa free regime.