Issuance Of Work Permits

On 26th May 2008 the Moscow branch of the Federal Migration Service temporarily stopped accepting new applications for work permits for non-Russian employees. The above information became available after the Federal Migration Service placed a sign in their office stating that work permit applications were no longer being accepted. The sign also mentioned that applications could still be sent by mail but not from Moscow or Moscow Region.

Later the representative of the Moscow Federal Migration Service explained the legal grounds for such suspension: the annual quota of work permits to be issued (300 000) for non-Russian employees in Moscow had been reached. We also discovered from an unofficial source that another reason for this suspension was as a result of the internal restructuring of the Federal Migration Service.