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Validating migration registration (temporary registration)

June 24 2025

Visa regime

After receiving multiple student visa you have to prolong migration registration (temporary registration) according to the period of validation of your new visa. The procedure of prolonging migration registration (temporary registration) can vary depending on the place of your residence (the dormitory of Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, rented apartment, hotel).

To prolong migration registration (temporary registration) upon new visa:

1. At the same day of receiving new visa send the following scanned copies (PDF) to the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students via email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru:

  • Scanned copy of international passport (pages with personal data, all the pages with visa and entry and leave stamps)
  • Scanned copy of migration card
  • Scanned copy of fingerprint registration (migrant’s green card)
  • Scanned copy of current results of completing medical examination (medical report, medical certificate and HIV certificate)
  • Scanned copy of your previous registration
  • Scanned copy of your agreement on residing in the dormitory of Gnesin Russian Academy of Music
  • Scanned copy of Voluntary Medical Insurance (Obligatory Medical Insurance, if you have it)

Important! Each of the requested documents should be sent as a separate PDF file.

2. Pay fee for the procedure

Employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students will send you a reply attaching bank details and an instruction for completing the transaction

3. After completing a transaction send a photo of payment receipt or its digital copy to the email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru

4. After checking your documents employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students will send you an email with digital copy of your migration registration notification (temporary registration) 

You can either print migration registration notification (temporary registration) yourself or ask employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students to give you printed version of it

Important! Period of submitting documents for prolonging migration registration (temporary registration): 1 day since receiving visa. Period of validating migration registration: 3 since the beginning of visa’s period of validation

To prolong migration registration (temporary registration) in case of change of residence address (if your visa is not new, if it is not expired), you should:

1. Send the following scanned copies (PDF) to the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students via email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru:

  • Scanned copy of international passport (pages with personal data, all the pages with visa and entry and leave stamps)
  • Scanned copy of migration card
  • Scanned copy of fingerprint registration (migrant’s green card)
  • Scanned copy of current results of completing medical examination (medical report, medical certificate and HIV certificate)
  • Scanned copy of your previous registration
  • Scanned copy of your agreement on residing in the dormitory of Gnesin Russian Academy of Music
  • Scanned copy of Voluntary Medical Insurance (Obligatory Medical Insurance, if you have it)

Important! Each of the requested documents should be sent as a separate PDF file

2. Pay fee for the procedure

Employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students will send you a reply attaching bank details and an instruction for completing the transaction

3. After completing a transaction send a photo of payment receipt or its digital copy to the email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru

4. After checking your documents employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students will send you an email with digital copy of your migration registration notification (temporary registration) 

You can either print migration registration notification (temporary registration) yourself or ask employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students to give you printed version of it

In this case, scanned copies of documents required for prolongation of your migration registration (temporary registration) should be sent 5 days before the previous one expires

Important!

If you leave Russia, your migration registration will be ANNULLED.
New migration card = new migration registration

After return to Russia you have to validate migration registration (temporary registration) again (in case your visa is still valid).

To do that, you should:

1. The next day after return to Russia send the following scanned copies (PDF) to the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students via email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru:

  • Scanned copy of international passport (pages with personal data, all the pages with visa and entry and leave stamps)
  • Scanned copy of migration card
  • Scanned copy of fingerprint registration (migrant’s green card)
  • Scanned copy of current results of completing medical examination (medical report, medical certificate and HIV certificate)
  • Scanned copy of your previous registration
  • Scanned copy of your agreement on residing in the dormitory of Gnesin Russian Academy of Music
  • Scanned copy of Voluntary Medical Insurance (Obligatory Medical Insurance, if you have it)

Important! Each of the requested documents should be sent as a separate PDF file

2. Pay fee for the procedure

Employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students will send you a reply attaching bank details and an instruction for completing the transaction

3. After completing a transaction send a photo of payment receipt or its digital copy to the email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru

4. After checking your documents employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students will send you an email with digital copy of your migration registration notification (temporary registration) 

You can either print migration registration notification (temporary registration) yourself or ask employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students to give you printed version of it

Important! Migration card expires the same time your visa expires

Non-visa regime

To prolong migration registration (temporary registration):

1. Send the following scanned copies (PDF) to the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students via email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru:

  • Scanned copy of international passport (the first page, all the pages with entry and leave stamps)
  • Scanned copy of migration card (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Scanned copy of fingerprint registration (migrant’s green card) (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Scanned copy of current results of completing medical examination (medical report, medical certificate and HIV certificate) (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Scanned copy of your previous registration
  • Scanned copy of your agreement on residing in the dormitory of Gnesin Russian Academy of Music
  • Scanned copy of Voluntary Medical Insurance (Obligatory Medical Insurance, if you have it)

Important! Each of the requested documents should be sent as a separate PDF file

2. Pay fee for the procedure

Employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students will send you a reply attaching bank details and an instruction for completing the transaction

3. After completing a transaction send a photo of payment receipt or its digital copy to the email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru

4. After checking your documents employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students will send you an email with digital copy of your migration registration notification (temporary registration) 

You can either print migration registration notification (temporary registration) yourself or ask employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students to give you printed version of it

Scanned copies of documents required for prolongation of your migration registration (temporary registration) should be sent 5 days before the previous one expires.

Important!

If you leave Russia, your migration registration will be ANNULLED.
New migration card = new migration registration

To do that, you should:

1. Prepare all the required documents:

  • Passport
  • Migration card (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Fingerprint registration (migrant’s green card) (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Current results of completing medical examination (medical report, medical certificate and HIV certificate) (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Original version of your previous migration registration
  • Documents confirming foreign student’s place of studies (letter of confirmation; extract from the admission order; study agreement / Academy’s referral, Academy’s intercession)

2. Ask the owner of the apartment to validate your migration registration (temporary registration)

3. Receive a detachable part of migration registration notification (temporary registration)

Send scanned copy of the detachable part of migration registration notification (temporary registration) to the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students via email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru

To do that, you should:

1. Prepare all the required documents:

  • Passport
  • Migration card (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Fingerprint registration (migrant’s green card) (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Current results of completing medical examination (medical report, medical certificate and HIV certificate) (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Original version of your previous migration registration
  • Documents confirming foreign student’s place of studies (letter of confirmation; extract from the admission order; study agreement / Academy’s referral, Academy’s intercession)

2. Ask the hotel manager to validate your migration registration (temporary registration)

3. Receive a detachable part of migration registration notification (temporary registration)

4. Send scanned copy of the detachable part of migration registration notification (temporary registration) to the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students via email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru

After return to Russia you have to validate migration registration (temporary registration) again (in case your visa is still valid).

To do that, you should:

1. The next day after return to Russia send the following scanned copies (PDF) to the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students via email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru:

  • Scanned copy of international passport (the first page, all the pages with entry and leave stamps)
  • Scanned copy of migration card (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Scanned copy of fingerprint registration (migrant’s green card) (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Scanned copy of current results of completing medical examination (medical report, medical certificate and HIV certificate) (except for citizens of the Republic of Belarus)
  • Scanned copy of your agreement on residing in the dormitory of Gnesin Russian Academy of Music
  • Scanned copy of Voluntary Medical Insurance (Obligatory Medical Insurance, if you have it)

Important! Each of the requested documents should be sent as a separate PDF file

2. Pay fee for the procedure

Employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students will send you a reply attaching bank details and an instruction for completing the transaction

3. After completing a transaction send a photo of payment receipt or its digital copy to the email indekanat@gnesin-academy.ru

4. After checking your documents employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students will send you an email with digital copy of your migration registration notification (temporary registration) 

You can either print migration registration notification (temporary registration) yourself or ask employees of the Department of Visa and Migration Support of Foreign Students to give you printed version of it.