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Authorities in Russia’s Samara Region have expanded the list of occupations in which foreign nationals working on the basis of a patent are prohibited from employment. The updated restrictions now include, among others, couriers and sales staff. The measure is set out in a decree signed by Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev and published on the regional government’s official website.
At present, labor migrants in the Samara Region are barred from working in 117 types of economic activity. Previously, the region had already imposed bans on the employment of patent-holding foreigners in passenger taxi services, education, pharmacies, and recruitment agencies.
The list has now been expanded severalfold to cover a much broader range of sectors, including:
➡️ trade;
➡️ transport;
➡️ food service;
➡️ manufacturing;
➡️ courier services;
➡️ education;
➡️ healthcare;
➡️ IT and science.
In particular, migrants are prohibited from working as teachers, coaches, nannies, in nearly all forms of retail trade, in software development, and at enterprises involved in the assembly of unmanned aerial vehicles.
According to the governor’s decree, local companies are given three months to bring “the number of foreign workers they employ” into compliance with the document’s provisions regarding bans in specific types of economic activity.
Similar restrictions on migrants working in Russia under the patent system have been introduced in many regions of the country. It is assumed that the resulting vacancies will be filled by Russian citizens or by nationals of member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia).
