By Vestnik Kavkaza
Problems in the sphere of migration policy have been accumulating for many years, but the federal authorities began to discuss them and suggest certain solutions not long ago.
However, according to experts, 5 million foreign citizens illegally work in Russia, and 14% of them have dangerous diseases. The authorities intend to prevent such violations, as well as corruption and breaking laws in the sphere of migration policy.
“Unfortunately, the quota system turned into a reselling of quotas. Today employers and employees in Russia have no rights, except for exactions. Moreover, the rights of Russian citizens are violated seriously,” Irina Yarovaya, the head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, thinks.
She suggests turning to a united universal patent system which will require new strict rules on tax payment, patent prices, voluntary health insurance policy, accommodation, time limits of staying in the country, reasons for entering Russia, and pointing out the goal of the employment.
In the course of a month a person who comes to Russia to work should go to the migration service and make an application for a patent. The FMS should check the migrant for convictions, dangerous contagious diseases, and all necessary payments.
Yarovaya thinks that an important fact of the deputy initiative is that regions will have to define at closed sessions the number of migrants that will be employed on this or that territory; at a public platform they will adopt the law of a Russian region on a forecast for socio-economic development. There will be an objective analysis of the situation in the labor market, the number of jobs to be created in a region and new branches for development. And only after the analysis will the demand for employment of the foreign labor force be formed.
Regions will have a right to decide on an absence of patents, i.e. a certain region could decide that it doesn’t need a foreign labor force at all, as there is no necessity for this.
“At the same time, it is the first legal format of obliged cooperation between the legislative authorities, social organizations, and trade unions,” Yarovaya says. “The government should monitor the situation in migration policy in a separate region and in the whole country. Annually the government reports to the parliament, and it will be part of the report. Governors who report to legislative assemblies and residents of regions will have to provide information on the quality of migration policy in their regions."
