In continuation of our news about the approval of forms of checklists we inform you that on March 26, 2021 came into force the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia from 13.01.2021 N 9, which amends the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia from January 29, 2019 N 42.
The changes affect the forms of checklists (lists of control questions) used for verifying compliance with the migration legislation of the Russian Federation:
• by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs hiring foreign citizens and stateless persons for labor activities on the territory of the Russian Federation;
• by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs which in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation are the receiving or inviting party.
Predominantly the amendments are related to the adjustment of the forms to the current legislation.
In turn, the list of questions, which is used during a planned inspection in respect of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs acting as a receiving or inviting party, is supplemented by the following:
• Does the inviting party provide the foreign national with its available contact information for communication, including through information technology?
• Does the inviting party implement the guarantees declared when issuing an invitation:
- material provision of the foreign citizen?
- medical provision of the foreign citizen?
- housing provision of the foreign citizen?
• Does the inviting party assist a foreign national in realizing his declared purpose of entry into the Russian Federation?
• Does the inviting party notify the territorial authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia about the loss of contact with a foreign national who is in the Russian Federation and has arrived at the inviting party?
Please note that in the case of violations of the mandatory requirements established by law, the inviting party is responsible according to the Article 18.9 of the Code of Administrative Offences of Russia.
In particular, failure by the inviting party to take the established measures to ensure compliance by the invited foreign citizen or stateless person of the regime of stay (residence) in the Russian Federation in terms of compliance with the declared purpose of their entry into the Russian Federation and the activities actually performed during their stay (residence) in the Russian Federation, or failure by the inviting party to take the established measures to ensure timely departure of the invited foreign citizen or stateless person
– shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of two thousand to four thousand rubles; on officials – from forty five thousand to fifty thousand rubles; on legal entities – from four hundred thousand to five hundred thousand rubles.
A failure by the inviting party to take measures for material, medical and housing provision of the invited foreign citizen or stateless person during his stay in the Russian Federation
– shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine on officials in the amount of forty thousand to fifty thousand rubles; on legal entities – from four hundred thousand to five hundred thousand rubles.
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