In Irkutsk region, issuing permits to hire foreign workers has been simplified and sped up. Documents will now be processed locally, not sent to Moscow, and the wait will drop from two months to 30 days.
At the end of May, amendments to the administrative regulations came into force. Previously, in order to obtain permission to use foreign employees, employers sent a package of documents to Moscow. Waiting for a response stretched to 2 months.Now the permit will be printed and issued in Irkutsk within 30 days after the documents are submitted. "Now the changes that have come into force in the administrative regulations will help employers obtain permission to hire workers in a shorter time. This document is the basis for carrying out the labor activities of foreign citizens who have arrived in Russia under a visa procedure," said Nadezhda Trofimova, leading specialist of the department for labor migration issues of the Federal Migration Service of Russia for the Irkutsk Region.
According to statistics, migrant workers are most widely employed in construction, agriculture, metallurgy, and motor vehicle repair. The quota for visiting workers at enterprises in the Irkutsk Region is 39,000 people. Permission to attract and use foreign labor can be obtained from the department for labor migration issues of the Federal Migration Service Administration for the Irkutsk Region.