Russia's top migration office said only 1 percent of Georgians working in Russia do it legally, compared to 40 percent of legal workers from China and Vietnam.
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Russia to Keep an Eye on Georgian Migrants
Russia should tighten control on migrants from Georgia, Russia’s top migration officer has said. A special department is to be set up at the Federal Migration Service to oversee Georgians working in Russia. Migration officials admit that it was a political decision connected with the blazing Russian-Georgian row.
Vyacheslav Postavnin, deputy head of the Federal Migration Service, said Friday: “Most Georgian migrants work in Russia illegally. Therefore, we will have to take emergency measures. Perhaps, on will be deportations. Besides that, we are going to have stricter control over arriving migrants.”
A special department to overseee labor migrants from Georgia is likely to be created at the Migration Service, Postavnin told Kommersant. The official cited statistics saying that only 1 percent of Georgians working in Russia do it legally, compared to 40 percent of legal workers from China and Vietnam, or 10-15 percent legal workers from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. The deputy head of the Migration Service added that his agency was going to “scrutinize and analyze invitations” that Georgians use to enter Russia.
Postavnin, however, admits that the close attention to the Georgians is not purely migration business. “Of course, it is also a political move in the view of the Georgian-Russian conflict – as a kind of retaliation for the actions of Georgian authorities,” the deputy head of the Russian migration authority told Kommersant.
Representatives of the Georgian community in Russia insist that the decision violates rights of the Georgians in Russia. They said the statistics cited by the Migration Service is false and promised to file complaints against the decision.
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 30, 2006
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