In Russia, there are 2 categories of migrants - forced migrants who, unwillingly, moved from their permanent place of residence within the country to another region of the Russian Federation or to Russia from abroad, as well as voluntary migrants, that is, participants in a program to promote the voluntary resettlement of compatriots to Russia . Both of them can apply for assistance to displaced people in 2021 from the Government of the Russian Federation and the regional authorities of the country. In this article we will tell you when migrants can receive support from the Russian authorities, what are the advantages of participating in the program for the resettlement of compatriots, what assistance is provided to migrants in various regions of the country, what payments, benefits, consultations, social assistance measures, and assistance in purchasing housing.
In what situations is assistance provided to displaced people?
It doesn’t matter whether a citizen participates in a state program to promote the voluntary resettlement of compatriots to Russia, or is a forced migrant who moved to the Russian Federation or moved within the country due to a real threat to life and health, all migrants will be provided with state assistance. We are talking about various payments, compensation, assistance in providing temporary and purchasing permanent housing, legal advice, and so on.
The above-mentioned resettlement program has been in effect in Russia since 2006, and its participants can be citizens of the Russian Federation (and their descendants) who permanently live abroad in one of the countries that were members of the USSR and the RSFSR and speak Russian. Program participants will be given more rights and privileges than internally displaced persons.
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Since 2014, more than 2.5 million people have moved to Russia from Ukraine for permanent residence. At the same time, about 400 thousand citizens asked for asylum. The bulk of the migrants moved from the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics. At the same time, as a rule, citizens of Ukraine “settled” in the Moscow region. The reason is simple: there is a higher chance of finding a promising job.
For example, one of the seekers of a new life was Igor Shramenko. The engineer is originally from Donetsk. He moved to Elektrostal in the fall of 2014.
“When the fighting began, I put my wife and daughter in the car and drove away,” says the settler. – I was lucky: I found a job at an enterprise that was ready to cooperate with foreigners.
As Shramenko recalls, the first thing he encountered in Russia was the long and thorny path to obtaining citizenship. According to Igor, simply processing documents to obtain a temporary residence permit (TRP) made a significant hole in the family budget. All documents required notarized translation. Mandatory exams for knowledge of the Russian language and passing a medical examination are also paid. In total, about 20–25 thousand rubles accumulated. for each family member.
Help for displaced people in various regions of Russia
Important! A participant in the state program has a unique opportunity to receive “lift” money when moving to priority regions. The payment amount is 240 thousand rubles per applicant and 120 thousand rubles for each member of his family.
Assistance to displaced people in 2021 largely depends on which constituent entity of the Russian Federation the person is moving to. Currently, the most significant support measures are provided by the authorities of the Siberian and Far Eastern districts, who need labor and improve the demographic situation. If a migrant chooses one of the priority regions, he will be entitled to significant assistance in the form of “lift” funds. Such subjects of the Russian Federation are: Buryatia, Trans-Baikal Territory, Primorsky Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka Territory, Irkutsk, Magadan, Sakhalin, Amur Regions, Jewish Autonomous Region.
When resettling to other regions participating in the program, you can also receive “lifting allowances,” but in the amount of only 20 thousand rubles per applicant and 10 thousand rubles for each member of the migrant’s family.
| Federal District | Participating areas |
| Siberian | Tomsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk regions, Republic of Khakassia, Altai Territory, Krasnoyarsk Territory (not the villages of Solnechny, Zheleznogorsk, Zelenogorsk, Norilsk) |
| Ural | Khanty-Mansiysk, Yamalo-Nenets districts, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk regions, Sverdlovsk and Kurgan regions |
| North Caucasian | Stavropol region |
| Southern | Krasnodar region, Astrakhan, Rostov and Volgograd regions |
| Privolzhsky | Perm Territory, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Samara regions, Chuvash Republic, Mari-El, Mordovia, Udmurt Republic, Penza region (not Kuznetsk, Penza, Zarechny) |
| Northwestern | Vologda, Pskov, Novgorod, Murmansk, Kaliningrad, Arkhangelsk, Leningrad regions, Karelia |
| Central | Yaroslavl, Tula, Tver, Tambov, Smolensk, Ryazan, Oryol, Lipetsk, Kursk, Kostroma, Kaluga, Voronezh, Bryansk regions |
Social support
Forced migrants are provided with all possible support from regional authorities - they are given the opportunity to live in a temporary accommodation center, use utilities free of charge, and receive food and basic necessities. They are compensated for the cost of travel to the temporary detention center and transportation of personal belongings. They can count on free, qualified assistance from doctors.
IDPs who have officially registered their stay on the territory of the Russian Federation receive the right to receive pension payments. The pension is available to all displaced persons, except those who have received temporary asylum. IDPs have access to free education and employment without obtaining a work permit.
Payments
Important! Voluntary and forced migrants can apply for all benefits and allowances that are provided for by the federal and regional legislation of Russia in relation to Russian low-income families.
Funds for the payment of benefits come from regional budgets, and therefore the amount is set depending on the subject of the Russian Federation - as a rule, we are talking about a benefit in the amount of 1 amount of the subsistence minimum. Targeted financial assistance cannot be provided for more than six months, after which a foreign citizen must already receive a temporary residence permit and enjoy other privileges.
Voluntary migrants receive “lifting” payments, compensation for travel to the region of the Russian Federation, compensation for the cost of transporting personal property, and a monthly allowance until employment.
Forced migrants can apply for one-time financial assistance in the amount of 100 rubles per person (150 rubles for low-income people) and unemployment benefits when registering with the Employment Center.
News about PFC savings on migrants
In a situation where a Ukrainian citizen is denied temporary asylum, what to do? First of all, you need to study the written refusal and the reasons.
In 2013, the list of regions to participate in the compatriots resettlement program was finally approved. The program compatriots for Ukrainians 2021 and regions of higher priority for relocation of participants have been approved:
- Transbaikal region
- Sakhalin region.
- Kamchatka Krai
- The Republic of Buryatia
- Khabarovsk region
- Amur region
- Irkutsk and Magadan region
Russian citizenship can be obtained by citizens who have legally resided on its territory for 5 years.
The program for the resettlement of compatriots began operating in 2006 and it was planned that within six years, people who wanted to return to the Russian Federation would take the opportunity and move for permanent residence in Russia. But experts did not calculate that the flow of migrants wanting to become Russians would be huge. Therefore, by presidential decree in 2012, the State Program was extended without specifying a specific end date.
If a migrant who is an official participant in the state program for the resettlement of compatriots and has the appropriate certificate moves to one of the priority regions of the Russian Federation, he will be able to count on the following support measures:
- Social benefits for disabled people, families, those who have lost their breadwinner and other special categories of persons.
- Targeted financial assistance (one-time or regular).
- Unemployment benefits from the Employment Center.
- “Lifting” payment (the so-called settlement allowance).
- One-time financial assistance.
- Exemption from state duty when importing one passenger car.
- Benefits do not include baggage transportation.
- Compensation for renting residential premises in Russia.
- Compensation for travel expenses to a temporary accommodation center or new housing.
And here the question arises: if no more proof is required that the language was learned in the family and, as was said, every young person with German roots can learn the language in language courses, pass the “sprachtest” and come, then how to understand the requirement that “ should parents and grandparents take the sprahtest? What then changed with the adoption of this new law?
When forming a new concept, we included in it the instructions of the president. Therefore, it is no coincidence that the concept gave you the feeling that changes to migration legislation are coming. The world is changing - legislation must change too.
However, lawyers emphasized, this procedure still does not apply to the payment of the deceased’s lost pension to the heirs.
To apply for payment, you must contact the territorial offices of the Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - an employee will issue an application form and advise you on how to fill it out. You will first need to open a bank account to which the funds will be transferred.
If you want to find out how to solve your particular problem, contact a consultant: in 2021, the implementation of the Program continues, as in previous years, but with some changes.
Thus, the lawyers emphasized, it can be expected that now absolutely all displaced pensioners, when applying to the Pension Fund, may be refused on the grounds that the procedure for their identification has not yet been developed.
In addition, Resolution No. 637 now spells out the procedure for checking pensioners, which was previously regulated by Resolution No. 365 (checks based on the Arkan lists).
But for some reason, the most vulnerable categories of the population are again becoming victims - people who have lost their homes are again deprived of their main source of income. These people worked for Ukraine all their lives and gave it their health. And when we hear again and again on our Hotline the question “Why does the state treat us this way?” - we have nothing to answer.
Expert opinion on the question of what benefits participation in the state program provides for immigrants
Changes were made to the initially accepted conditions for participation in the program to promote the voluntary resettlement of compatriots to Russia after the entry into force of Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of July 25, 2014 No. 531. The reason for making adjustments was the desire to simplify the relocation procedure for residents of Donbass and Ukrainians who do not have the necessary documents.
Today, amendments to the program, the implementation of which is regulated by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated September 14, 2012 No. 1289, allow foreigners who have received temporary asylum in Russia and internally displaced persons from the eastern part of Ukraine to participate in the project.
Since Ukrainian citizens who wish to participate in the program often did not have the necessary documents - about education, marital status, work experience, it was decided to simplify the registration procedure for program participants in this regard. Moreover, the processing time for applications from applicants for participation in the program from among Ukrainian citizens has been significantly reduced.
Relocation of compatriots to Russia 2021 new law on the resettlement of Ukrainians
Since 2013, people who want to move to Russia for the purpose of permanent residence and obtaining citizenship can participate in the state program for the resettlement of compatriots. And many are wondering how the new law on the resettlement of compatriots to Russia in 2021 works. In this article we will try to briefly explain the essence of this program.
Thanks early? If I entered the program of resettlement to the Russian Federation as one person and have already received citizenship (I am from Ukraine). And now my son and his family want to join me. Is it possible to do this according to my program or some other way? And what for this? necessary?
Obtaining a temporary residence permit To obtain a temporary residence permit, a migrant must seek help from the Russian consulate or the Federal Migration Service.
After the adoption of a new law (or amendments to an existing law) in 2013, the “Federal Administrative Office” (Bundesverwaltungsamt - BVA), which, among other things, also deals with the reception of German immigrants, warned that the annual number of German immigrants entering the country could now increase again. reach a six-digit figure, that is, at least one hundred thousand (100,000) per year.
