IMMIGRATION LAW
Personal work permit
Personal work permit. Only having this document the foreign citizen can work in Russia. Work permit can be for 1 year or for 3 years (highly qualified specialist). Work permit is issued only by the Department of immigration issues or its territorial structures. Highly qualified specialist (HQS) is a foreign citizen, for its hiring the main requirement is that his salary should be not less than 167 000 rubles per month. The term of the work permit is 3 years, the same is for his working visa. Today it is the most popular and the quickest way to legalize foreign citizen, which gives a lot of advances comparing to the employees with 1 year work permit.