Residency Law

Residency Law
Residency is the act of establishing or maintaining a residence in a given place. Residency is a concept which heavily affects the legal rights and responsibilities that are available to a person, including eligibility to vote, eligibility to stand for political office, eligibility to access government services, responsibility to pay taxes, and on and so forth.

Recent Residency Regulations
Following the World Cup 2018 tournaments, the authorities of Russian Federation amended certain laws and regulations involving residency of foreign nationals within the territories of the Russian Federation.

The law codified by  Federal law of July 18, 2006 N 109-FZ "About migration registration of foreign citizens and persons without citizenship in the Russian Federation" begin to be enacted in June 2018, and applies to all visitors of the Russian Federation.

The foreign citizen is subject to registration at the place of stay at the address of the organization in which it in accordance with the established procedure performs labor or other activity not prohibited by the legislation of the Russian Federation, in case of actual residence at the address of the specified organization or in the room of the specified organization which does not have address data (the structure, the construction), including temporary.

According to the law, the place of stay of the foreign citizen or person without citizenship in the Russian Federation (further - the place of stay) - the premises which aren't the residence or other room in which the foreign citizen or the person without citizenship actually lives (regularly uses for a sleep and rest), or the organization to which address the foreign citizen or the person without citizenship is subject to registration. Meaning all foreign visitors of the Russian Federation are obligated to obtain a registration of the location of their residency, and carry a notarised copy of it at all times.

Any foreign citizen is subject to registration at the place of stay, at the address of the hotel or other organization providing hotel services, sanatorium, rest house, boarding house, children's health camp, tourist base, camping or other premises in which he or she actually lives, or at the address of the medical organization providing medical care in stationary conditions, or the organization of social services providing social services in stationary form, including persons without a certain place of residence, in which he is in connection with the receipt of services of this organization, or at the address of the institution., the executing criminal or administrative punishment in which he or she is contained.

Source
Federal law of 25.07.2002 №115-FZ