Talk:Immigration to Russia

Only permanent?
The introduction sets apart and discusses only issues of permanent residence and obtaining citizenship from the more relevant inside Russia issue of initially temporary immigration for work, which is wrong because, I believe from knowing quite a few Central Asian mostly manual workers in Russia, actually only few attain citizenship (none of my acquaintance), while the multitude of them cause xenophobia, stressed high crime rate,   legalization problems, little to no rights including useless medical insurance they have to buy which either fails to answer at all (as with the one bought in Uzbekistan at the Fergana Airport) or can arrange only a single visit to a doctor, especially if the case of a relapse of a chronic illness, with necessity to pay for all the rest of examination and treatment). The exam in Russian language, history and law must be taken even by temporary immigrants, as well as medical tests for infections such as AIDS  and tuberculosis. I am physically unable to rewrite even the introduction, but it must be done. Otherwise the picture is incomplete. And I do know that there have been UK and US natives who settled in Russia permanently, but they are not numerous. A third strata of foreign immigrants are graduates of Russian and Soviet universities from both distant countries and the member republics of the former USSR. And there have been refugees and asylum seekers such as Afghanistan government employees of the time of the Soviet presence there - or a court case on legal status of a young Nigerian lady fleeing to her countryman fiancé in Russia from her family bent on performing female genital mutilation on her. So it is not limited to permanent residence seekers. A very complex problem. And physical immigration is not synonymous with being granted citizenship: some supposedly temporary migrants outstay their temporary permit and go on to live in the country without still valid documents, media say. And the lead must stress the gap between the stages of obtaining a more advanced legal status, which is not unique to Russia. GregZak (talk) 04:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)