Results of Moscow migration service’s work in first half of 2013

 Olga Kirillova, the head of the Federal Migration Service Department for Moscow, spoke about the results of the work of the FMSD in Moscow for the first six months of 2013. Moscow as the most economically-developed region of the Russian Federation is still a center of migration inflows.

According to the Central Data Base on Foreign Citizens Accounting of the FMS of Russia, more than 940 thousand foreign citizens live in Moscow. Most of them are citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. 

The majority of foreign citizens in Moscow are residing there temporarily, they arrived for private, business, educational, and tourism purposes, or for the purpose of employment. Control functions for compliance with immigration laws and regulations and general opposition to illegal immigration in the city of Moscow remains a priority and important task, which first of all is the responsibility of the Federal Migration Service of Russia in Moscow. In the first six months of 2013 the Migration Service in Moscow registered 835,370 foreign citizens and persons without citizenship, issued 132,339 work permits, 85,849 patents, 120,828 invitations and 32,226 visas to foreign nationals.