In order to handle matters of illegal migration in a better way a corresponding division of the police should be set up and the required amendments made in federal legislation, he said.
According to Mr. Kravchenko, a package of amendments to the federal law On the Police and other normative acts have been prepared to be submitted for consideration by the cabinet of ministers. The Parliament in its turn will take a decision on a timeframe for submitting these bills to the State Duma.
Mr. Kravchenko said that last year approximately 1,800,000 people were taken to the administrative account for violating the regime of stay in the Russian Federation. Penalties were imposed on foreigners and stateless persons for lack of registration and migration card, violation of the rules of transit passage in the Russian Federation and other suchlike doings. In different estimates, between 600 and 900 million roubles (from $20 to $30 million) as fines for such offences were yielded to the local budgets last year.
Mr. Kravchenko also said that the introduction of migration cards, "which are actually minivisas for residents of the Commonwealth of Independent States," has largely helped in settling the illegal-migration issue but, a set of other measures, including legislative, are required to improve the situation.
