General Information
Responsibilities and Duties of Students
A foreign student who is in the Russian Federation must have the following documents:
- national passport;
- study visa (for those arriving from countries requiring visa entry to the Russian Federation);
- tear-off part of the notification of arrival of a foreign citizen or stateless person at the place of stay with a mark from the territorial migration registration authority on registration for migration purposes, if any;
- migration card;
- fingerprint card.
Foreign students whose national passports are about to expire are required to renew or replace them in advance at the Consular Sections of their Embassies and notify the Passport and Visa Department of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev” about the availability of a new national passport.
A foreign citizen must immediately notify the internal affairs authorities of the loss of a national passport, which will issue a corresponding certificate. Foreign students are required to notify the Passport and Visa Department in writing about the loss of their national passport immediately after receiving a certificate from the internal affairs agency, and provide a copy of this certificate. The certificate is submitted to the Embassy to obtain a new passport or temporary identity card for travel to their home country.
A foreign student is required to inform the Passport and Visa Department of the FSBEI HE "Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev" in writing (in the form of an application):
- about trips to other cities in the territory of the Russian Federation and the country;
- about a change in residential address (including hospitalization in medical institutions);
- about a change in citizenship;
- about obtaining (Temporary Residence Permit),(Residence Permit), or temporary asylum.
A foreign citizen who arrived to study at OSU, who also has Russian citizenship, is considered by the Russian Federation only as a citizen of the Russian Federation. A foreign citizen is required to notify the Passport and Visa Department of his/her Russian citizenship.
Health insurance
A foreign citizen who has arrived to study at OSU must have a voluntary health insurance policy.
The said policy must provide for: medical examination; outpatient and polyclinic care; assistance in case of sudden illness; transportation (repatriation) to the homeland.
Fingerprint registration
According to the Federal Law of 01.07.2021 N 274-FZ "On state fingerprint registration in the Russian Federation", amended by the Federal Law, foreign citizens who arrive in the Russian Federation are subject to mandatory fingerprinting, photographing and undergoing a medical examination for the presence of infectious diseases, drug addiction and HIV infection.
Medical examination is carried out in the following medical organizations:
BUZ OO "Oryol Skin and Venereal Diseases Dispensary",
address: Oryol, Pushkin St., 68, tel. +7 (4862) 71-74-06, http://orel-okvd.ru/;
BUZ OO "Oryol Tuberculosis Dispensary".
address: Oryol, Tsvetaeva St., 15, tel. +7 (4862) 41-45-53, http://www.tbclinic.ru/;
State Budgetary Healthcare Institution of the Oryol Region "Oryol Narcological Dispensary".
address: Oryol, 42a Karachevskaya St., tel. +7 (4862) 77-09-39, http://www.ond-orel.ru/;
State Budgetary Healthcare Institution of the Oryol Region "Oryol Regional Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS and Infectious Diseases".
address: Oryol, 31 Leskova St., tel. +7 (4862) 59-12-78, http://aids-orel.ru/.
Fingerprint registration, photographing and acceptance of documents on the results of a medical examination are carried out at the territorial internal affairs bodies at the place of residence (stay).
For those arriving in Orel and Orlovsky District - at the address: Orel, Moskovskaya St. 155B and Artelny Lane, 7, Office 115, Tel. 54-11-62
Fingerprint registration and photographing is carried out once. A repeat medical examination must be taken 1 year after receiving the test results. After this period, foreign citizens are required to undergo a repeat medical examination within 30 calendar days and provide the results to the address: Orel, Moskovskaya St. 155B
In the event that foreign citizens fail to fulfill their obligations to undergo mandatory medical examination and fingerprinting, the period of temporary stay in the Russian Federation of foreign citizens is reduced, and they will be denied further stay in Russia, which entails deportation from the Russian Federation.
Obligation of a foreign citizen to leave the Russian Federation
A foreign citizen who has arrived to study at OSU is required to leave the territory of the Russian Federation if the conditions have changed or the circumstances under which he was allowed to enter have ceased to exist, namely in the event of going on academic leave or being expelled from the number of students.
Those expelled from the university must leave the Russian Federation within the timeframes strictly established by migration legislation:
- those staying in the territory of the Russian Federation in a visa-free regime - within three days from the date of notification of the Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Oryol Region about the reduction of their stay in the territory of the Russian Federation;
- staying on the territory of the Russian Federation on the basis of the RVPO - within three days from the date of notification of the Department for Migration Issues of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Oryol region about the reduction of their period of stay on the territory of the Russian Federation;
- staying on the territory of the Russian Federation under the visa regime - within three days from the date of notification of the Department for Migration Issues of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Oryol region about the reduction of their period of stay on the territory of the Russian Federation or the date of expiry of the transit visa, which they are obliged to issue in the SPVKiS DMS (Passport and Visa Support Service of the University) upon their expulsion (the documents for the transit visa must be submitted by the foreign citizen not later than three working days from the date of his/her expulsion from the university).
LIABILITY FOR VIOLATION OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION LEGISLATION
For violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation, a foreign citizen may be subject to administrative and (or) criminal liability. The grounds for administrative liability are defined in the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, and criminal liability - in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
If a foreign citizen is subject to administrative liability for committing an offense on the territory of the Russian Federation two or more times within three years, he may be denied further stay in Russia, which entails expulsion from the Russian Federation.
The rights of foreign citizens are prescribed by Russian legislation. Foreign citizens are liable on an equal basis with citizens of the Russian Federation.
Below you can read the text of three main laws on the presence of foreign citizens in the territory of the Russian Federation:
Federal Law No. 115 "On the legal status of foreign citizens"