MOSCOW. June 18 (Interfax) - A bill tightening federal control over immigration, including new deportation rules, passed its first reading in the State Duma on Tuesday.
The bill was introduced by representatives from all five parties in the Duma.
The new deportation rules will apply to foreign citizens without the right to stay in Russia legally, the bill said. This could be either because they have overstayed their permitted period of stay in Russia, or because their immigration documents or temporary or indefinite residence permit was revoked, or if they have committed a crime.
The rules will cease to apply in cases where the decision to apply them was reversed, or a foreign citizen departed Russia, resolved their legal situation, or has died.
The new deportation rules, if enacted, would restrict a foreign citizen in certain rights and substantially broaden measures to control their whereabouts in Russia.
Such restrictions would ban foreign citizens from changing their permanent or temporary residence without permission from police, traveling outside the region or municipality of their residence, driving a vehicle, obtaining a driving license, buying or selling real estate, cars, tractors, or registering such property with state authorities, marrying, setting up a legal entity or registering as a self-employed individual, applying for a loan, opening a bank account, sending money transfers or otherwise managing accounts with a Russian bank and any other lending organization, unless buying goods for up to 30,000 rubles a month or a ticket out of Russia.