08.05.2013
Russian migration cards now unified with Belarus
MINSK, 8 May (BelTA) – President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed the law on ratifying the protocol to amend the Belarusian-Russian agreement of the year 2004 on using uniform-pattern migration cards, the official website of the Russian Federation President reads.
The federal law will ratify the protocol on expanding the Belarus-Russia intergovernmental agreement on using uniform-pattern migration cards of 5 October 2004.
The protocol expands article 3 of the said agreement. In line with the amendments foreign citizens, who temporarily or permanently live in Belarus, no longer have to fill in and produce migration cards on leaving or entering Belarus.
Meanwhile, to leave Belarus in order to enter the Russian Federation, the specified foreign citizens will have to fill in migration cards before entering Russia. The cards are issued by relevant Belarusian government agencies and have to be produced to relevant authorities while staying in the Russian Federation.
The federal law was passed by the lower chamber of the Russian parliament on 26 April 2013 and was approved by the upper chamber on 27 April 2013.
The federal law will ratify the protocol on expanding the Belarus-Russia intergovernmental agreement on using uniform-pattern migration cards of 5 October 2004.
The protocol expands article 3 of the said agreement. In line with the amendments foreign citizens, who temporarily or permanently live in Belarus, no longer have to fill in and produce migration cards on leaving or entering Belarus.
Meanwhile, to leave Belarus in order to enter the Russian Federation, the specified foreign citizens will have to fill in migration cards before entering Russia. The cards are issued by relevant Belarusian government agencies and have to be produced to relevant authorities while staying in the Russian Federation.
The federal law was passed by the lower chamber of the Russian parliament on 26 April 2013 and was approved by the upper chamber on 27 April 2013.