Migration registration rules for visa-free countries

General information

Every foreign citizen, upon entering the territory of the Russian Federation, is obliged to obtain and fill out a migration card.

The migration card is filled in personally by a foreign citizen (legibly, without corrections, in Russian). The purpose of entry for foreign students: «study».

Upon arrival in the territory of the Russian Federation, a foreign student is required to register at the place of stay within 7 days from the date of arrival.

The registration of a foreign citizen is cancelled upon departure from the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as when traveling through the territory of the Russian Federation by air, checking into a hotel or hostel, undergoing inpatient treatment in a hospital. Therefore, upon returning to the dormitory of the USLU, a foreign citizen must renew his registration.

Registration for foreign students living in the dormitory of the USLU is carried out by International Cooperation Department (hereinafter - ICD).

Migration registration rules

For foreign students living in the dormitory of the USLU

After arriving in Russia, for registration purposes, you bring the following documents to the ICD (Yekaterinburg, Komsomolskaya Street 23, office 202):
     • original of the identity document;
     • original of the migration card;
     • original of the certificate of education or the education agreement;
     • medical insurance policy valid on the territory of the Russian Federation.

To renew your registration, no later than 10 days before the end of the current registration period, you bring the following documents to the ICD (Yekaterinburg, Komsomolskaya Street 23, office 202):

     • original of the identity document;
     • original of the migration card;
     • original of the certificate of education or the education agreement;
     • original of the current registration;
     • original document on the passage of fingerprint registration and photographing;
     • original documents confirming the medical examination of foreign citizens.

For foreign students who do not live in the dormitory of the USLU

After arriving in Russia, you bring the following documents to the ICD (Yekaterinburg, Komsomolskaya Street 23, office 202):
     • the original of the identity document;
     • the original of the migration card;
     • the original of the certificate of education or the education agreement;
     • medical insurance policy valid on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Migration registration is carried out by a foreign student independently together with the owner of the apartment in which the foreign student lives.

Extension of the period of temporary stay in the Russian Federation for foreign students

An application for an extension of the period of temporary stay of a foreign student is submitted no later than 20 days before the end of his temporary stay in the Russian Federation. The extension of the period of temporary stay of a foreign student is carried out by the ICD once for the entire period of study. The deadline for a foreign student to attend the ICD to extend their temporary stay is no later than 25 days before the end of their temporary stay in the Russian Federation.

Important!

If you do not live on the territory of the dormitory of the USLU, you need to regularly provide information about your place of residence in Yekaterinburg or the Sverdlovsk region.

You also need to provide the Dean’s Office and the ICD with information about your contact details (mobile phone number, e-mail address) and the address of migration registration.

In case of a change in the mobile phone number or e-mail address, as well as the migration registration address, you need to notify the Dean’s Office and the ICD within 2 (two) working days.