The Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation on Prevention and Reduction of Uncontrolled External Migration

This is an unofficial translation of the Resolution No. 1021 dated 8 September 1994.

To execute the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No 2145 of 16 December 1993 "On introduction of immigration control" and for the purpose of urgent prevention and reduction of uncontrolled external migration to the territory of the Russian Federation of foreign citizens and stateless persons, the Government of the Russian Federation RESOLVES:

1. Federal Migration Service of Russia, Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ministry of the Russian Federation of Cooperation with States-Parties to the Commonwealth of Independent States, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Federal Counter-Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation within 2 months must submit to the Government of the Russian Federation agreed proposals on intergovernmental bilateral and multilateral agreements between the Russian Federation and the States-Parties to the Commonwealth of Independent States, Republic of Latvia, Republic of Lithuania, Republic of Estonia on prevention of uncontrolled migration of foreign citizens and stateless persons.

2. Federal Migration Service of Russia, Ministry of justice of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Labour of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Finances of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Federal Counter-intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Federal Employment Service of Russia together with other Federal executive bodies concerned must within 2 months submit to the Government of the Russian Federation proposals on immigration quota for admittance of foreign citizens and stateless persons seeking asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as on the amount of said quota.

3. Federal Migration Service of Russia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Finances of the Russian Federation must within 3 months submit to the Government of the Russian Federation proposals on establishment of representations of the Federal Migration Service of Russia at the Embassies of the Russian Federation in the states with the largest exodus of foreign citizens and stateless persons seeking asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation.

4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation together with the Federal Migration Service of Russia must within 2 months update job description of the appropriate officials of said Ministry for the purpose of prevention of uncontrolled migration to the territory of the Russian Federation of foreign citizens and stateless persons seeking asylum.

5. Federal Migration Service of Russia, State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Property Management must establish in 1994 temporary accommodation centers for immigrants in Krasnodar, Primorsky and Khabarovsk areas, Volgograd, Irkutsk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moscow, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Perm and Chita regions, in agreement with the appropriate executive bodies of the administrative-political divisions of the Russian Federation.

6. Ministry of Finances of the Russian Federation must guarantee timely and special-purpose financing of the temporary accommodation centers for immigrants referred to in para 5 of the Present Resolution, from the federal funds allocated on the implementation of the Federal Migration Programme.

7. Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, State Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Inspection of the Russian Federation must within the authority and together with the Federal Migration Service of Russia and Ministry of Social Protection of Population of the Russian Federation must:

approve within 2 months normative documents, regulating sanitary and antiepidemiological standards for accommodation of foreign citizens and stateless persons, seeking asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation, in the temporary accommodation places at the immigration control posts and at the temporary accommodation centers for immigrants;

elaborate within 3 months a procedure for medical services (outpatient, inpatient examination and treatment, medical and sanitary expertise) for foreign citizens and stateless persons seeking asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation and staying in the temporary accommodation places, at the immigration control posts and in the temporary accommodation centers for immigrants;

provide temporary accommodation centers at the immigration control posts and temporary accommodation centers for immigrants with necessary medical equipment and medicines.

8. For the purpose of providing personal security of foreign citizens and stateless persons seeking asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation together with the Federal Migration Service of Russia must within 2 months approve a procedure for convoy of said persons to the temporary accommodation places at the immigration control posts and to the temporary accommodation centers for immigrants.

9. Federal Migration Service of Russia must:

together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation guarantee temporary accommodation at the temporary centers for immigrants of foreign citizens and stateless persons who have applied for refugee status in the Russian Federation, in order to guarantee their security;

verify, with the participation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Federal Counter-Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, the information provided by the foreign citizens and stateless persons to support their application for the refugee status of the Russian Federation, and, according to the results of the examination, adopt decisions on said persons in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

10. Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation together with the Federal Executive bodies concerned must:

take, within their authority appropriate measures, aimed at prevention and reduction of uncontrolled migration and reveal foreign citizens and stateless persons illegally staying on the territory of the Russian Federation;

apply the procedures established by the legislation of the Russian Federation to foreign citizens and stateless persons seeking asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation and violating the law.

11. Federal Migration Service of Russia, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Federal Counter-intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Federal Frontier Service - Central Command of the Frontier Forces of the Russian Federation, Ministry of justice of the Russian Federation must within 2 months submit to the Government of the Russian Federation proposals on regulating the deportation procedure for foreign citizens and stateless persons who have been refused asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation.

12. Federal Migration Service of Russia, Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, Federal Employment Service of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Social Protection of Population of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Labour of the Russian Federation, State Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Inspection of the Russian Federation must within 2 months, together with Federal Executive bodies and executive bodies of the political-administrative divisions of the Russian Federation, submit to the Government of the Russian Federation proposal on settlement, vocational training and re-training and employment of foreign citizens and stateless persons, recognized as refugees in the Russian Federation as well as on their social support and guarantees.

13. Federal Employment Service of Russia must within 3 months provide for establishment within its structure of units (groups) for vocational training and re-training and employment of foreign citizens and stateless persons recognized as refugees on the territory of the Russian Federation.

14. Federal Migration Service of Russia, Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, in agreement with the General State Prosecutor's Office, of the Russian Federation, Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, must within 2 months submit proposals on coordination between State bodies of the Russian Federation in court examination of cases related to the migration of foreign citizens and stateless persons seeking asylum in the Russian Federation.

15. To approve the attached Regulations "On the procedure for the work with foreign citizens and stateless persons arriving and staying in Russia and seeking asylum, for their status determination, temporary accommodation and stay on the territory of the Russian Federation".