About 10,000 migrants were added to a special register in the Republic of Tatarstan for illegally staying in Russia.

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      About 10 thousand migrants were added to a special registry in the Republic of Tatarstan due to illegal stay in Russia (photo: shedevrum.ai)

      As reported by the Interior Ministry’s migration department for the republic, about half of those entered in the registry are working‑age men who do not have documents proving legal stay in the Russian Federation and the right to work.

      About 10 thousand foreign citizens in Tatarstan ended up in the registry of controlled persons (RCP) due to a lack of legal grounds for staying in Russia. As Marat Galeev, head of the republic’s migration department of the Interior Ministry, said at a press conference, only 1.8 thousand people took the opportunity to legalize their status before September 10. The registry, launched on February 5, imposes serious restrictions on illegal migrants: they are prohibited from taking employment, conducting financial transactions and concluding deals. At the same time, the police identified 186 cases of employment of foreigners from the RCP — for such violations employers face fines of up to 800,000 rubles.

      According to the agency head, the current total number of foreign citizens in Tatarstan exceeds 112,000 people. As was clarified earlier, if a migrant was included in the registry and did not manage to legalize their status before September 10, measures up to deportation with a ban on entry to Russia may be applied to them. It should be noted that earlier the Russian Ministry of Labor proposed reducing the permissible share of foreign workers in nine sectors of the economy by 2026, and in some industries to ban employment of those who do not have Russian citizenship altogether. The authors of the initiative clarified that such measures are aimed at protecting the labor market and national security.

      Earlier it was reported that during the ten days of the operational-preventive campaign “Illegal-2025” more than 1.2 thousand cases of violations of migration legislation were identified in the republic.

      Arina Mikhaylova

      Published: 28.08.2025 13:39

      Edited: 28.08.2025 13:39