Immigration to Russia

Immigration to Russia is an entry process of foreign citizens for permanent residence in the territory of the Russian Federation. Under current law, after five years of residence, after the examination of the knowledge of the Russian language, immigrants can also obtain Russian citizenship. The immigration to Russia is regulated by the Federal Migration Service (FMS).^[1] The immigration plays an important role in modern Russian demographic processes, since it is the cause of the increase of the population from 2011.^[2]

Immigrant population in Russia by country of birth

Citizenship of immigrants:^[3]

1	Ukraine	2,651,109
2	Uzbekistan	2,335,960
3	Tajikistan	1,105,500
4	Azerbaijan	610,327
5	Moldova	586,122
6	Kazakhstan	575,400
7	Kyrgyzstan	552,014
8	Armenia	514,663
9	Belarus	498,878
10	China	273,034
11	Germany	244,662
12	United States of America	142,405
13	Turkey	111,681
14	United Kingdom	111,275
15	Finland	77,665
16	Vietnam	53,649
17	Italy	53,649
18	France	53,382
19	Spain	45,935
20	Lithuania	42,672
21	Without citizenship	35,489
22	Philippines	34,755
23	North Korea	34,217
24	Serbia	33,591
25	Canada	32,107
26	Georgia	30,718
27	Israel	30,126
28	India	29,886
29	Estonia	28,356
30	Poland	27,979