DUSHANBE, August 8, 2012, Asia-Plus — Some 90,000 Tajik labor migrants are working in Moscow oblast legally, participants in a meeting of representatives from Tajikistan’s Tojikkhorijakor (Tajik enterprise for organization and regulation of external labor migration) and the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS)’s office for Moscow oblast noted.
The meeting took place in Moscow on August 7.
Meanwhile, more than 100,000 Tajik citizens currently working in this region reportedly do not have work permits or any other documents.
According to FMS’s office for Moscow oblast, 47 centers for issuing appropriate patents within ten days now function in the area.
Aleksei Sychyov, the deputy head of FMS’s office for Moscow oblast, noted that last year, 34,750 Tajik nationals received work permits and 44,842 others received patents. “Over the first seven months of this year, 21,906 Tajik citizens have received work permits and 39,484 others have received patents,” Sychyov noted.
Tojikkhorijakor now has its offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg.