Registration rules about the place of stay for foreign students

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Registration At The Place Of Stay

1. Sign an accommodation agreement with the dormitory administration or a tenancy agreement with the landlord, get a detachable registration coupon from the hostel or hotel

2. Prepare the documents required for migration registration

Visa countries:

  • passport + its copy
  • visa copy
  • migration card
  • tenancy agreement + its copy

Visa-free countries:

  • passport + its copy
  • migration card
  • tenancy agreement + its copy
  • enrollment agreement, the recommendation from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia, extract from the order
  • certificate from the Dean’s Office confirming student status

3. Submit your documents to the landlord or to the university’s international student support department to extend your registration

4. Get a registration form

  • If you register at the university dormitory, it is the university that carries out the migration registration procedures.
  • If you are absent from the dormitory for over three calendar days running without notifying the administrator about the reasons for your absence, the university is obliged to deregister you.
  • If you register at the apartment, your landlord must help you get the migration registration every time you exit or re-enter Russia.

What Should I Do

Is your migration card lost or damaged? Contact the university or the General Administration for Migration Issues of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where you are registered, within three days. When you show your passport, visa, student ID card, a detachable section of the notification arrival (you should find out what the document package must include), you will get a free duplicate copy.

Is your section of the arrival notification form lost? You must report this loss to the General Administration for Migration Issues of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where you are registered. You can also contact the university’s international student support department. After the information check, you will get a free duplicate copy within three days.

We have roughly described the steps international students must take while entering and leaving Russia. Please note that the procedures for migration registration and registration at the place of residence can have their specific features and can be carried out at the different departments, depending on the university.

Now let us see how to resolve the problems with the assistance of competent staff members from VlSU named after Alexander and Nikolay Stoletovs, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, and Siberian Federal University.

To save its guests the trouble and "pain in the neck" related to migration registration, Siberian Federal University delegates this work to its Social and Cultural Adaptation Group.

The department staff meets new students at the airport or the railway station and assists them in contacting the admissions office, the bank, the protocol office, and the migration service. SibFU international students do not have to bother themselves with dates, documents for registration, specific features of their submission. The assistant explains what they should do step by step and supports them throughout all steps.

At Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, it is the university’s passport and visa support department that executes the documents for the registration of students in the dormitories.

If an international student lives in a rented apartment, the apartment owner (landlord) will register them for 90 days or the visa validity period at the Multiservice Center or the Migration Department of the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the landlord's district.

To register at the dormitory address, international students must:

  • Prepare the documents required for initial registration for 90 calendar days or the visa validity period. Document copies must be of good quality, with recognizable faces and readable text:

– originals of passport and migration card
– copies of all passport pages and migration card
– Form-1 from the dormitory, original

  • Send the document copies or come to the university's passport and visa support department with the documents and submit them for initial registration
  • On the appointed day, collect the ready documents confirming their registration at their place of stay

To register at their place of residence in a rented apartment, international students must:

  • Agree upon registration with the landlord
  • Get the registration with their landlord's assistance at the Multiservice Center of the district where the rented apartment is located (the list of conditions and documents should be checked in advance)
  • Submit a copy of the initial registration certificate and migration card to the university's passport and visa support department

Dates for migration registration of foreign citizens at private addresses:

  • 30 calendar days—for citizens of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan
  • 15 calendar days—for citizens of Tajikistan
  • 7 business days—for citizens of all other visa and visa-free countries
18.04.2021
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