Who doesn't need a work permit?
- Permanently (residence permit) or temporarily (temporary residence permit) resident in the Russian Federation;
- Foreign citizens - participants of the State program to assist the voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of compatriots living abroad and members of their families moving with them to the Russian Federation;
- Employees of diplomatic missions, employees of consular offices of foreign states in the Russian Federation, employees of international organizations, as well as private domestic workers of mentioned persons;
- Employees of foreign legal entities (manufacturers or suppliers) performing installation (supervision) works, service and warranty maintenance, as well as post-warranty repair of technical equipment supplied to the Russian Federation;
- Journalists accredited in the Russian Federation;
- Persons studying in the Russian Federation in professional educational organisations, educational organisations of higher education and scientific organisations and working (rendering services) during holidays;
- Persons studying in the Russian Federation in professional educational organisations, educational organisations of higher education and scientific organisations and working in their free time in these educational and scientific organisations, economic societies or economic partnerships established by budgetary or autonomous educational organisations of higher education and budgetary or autonomous scientific organisations in which they are studying;
7.1. Full-time students in the Russian Federation in professional educational organisations, educational organisations of higher education or scientific organisations on an educational programme of secondary vocational education, bachelor's degree programme, specialist's degree programme, master's degree programme, residency programme, assistantship-internship programme having state accreditation, or on a programme of training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel in postgraduate studies (adjuncture) and working in their free time; - Invited to the Russian Federation as scientific or teaching workers, if they are invited to engage in research or teaching activities in undergraduate programs, specialty programs, master's programs, residency programs, assistantship internship programs that have state accreditation, or in scientific training programs and scientific and teaching staff in postgraduate (adjunct) educational institutions of higher education, state academies of sciences or their regional branches, national research centers, state scientific centers, other scientific organizations in which dissertation councils established in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation operate, or other scientific organizations and innovative organizations in accordance with the criteria and (or) list approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, or as teaching staff to conduct classes in other organizations engaged in educational activities, with the exception of persons entering the Russian Federation to engage in teaching activities in religious educational organizations
8.1 Invited to the Russian Federation for business or humanitarian purposes or for the purpose of carrying out labor activities and who are also involved in research and (or) teaching activities in educational programs of secondary vocational education, bachelor's programs, specialty programs, master's programs, residency programs, programs assistantship-internships with state accreditation, or under programs for training scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel in graduate school (adjuncture) in scientific organizations and educational organizations of higher education, with the exception of religious educational organisations;
8.2. Arrived in the Russian Federation for not more than 30 days to carry out touring activities (organisation and carrying out on the basis of civil law contracts on a reimbursable and (or) gratuitous basis of events during which a foreign citizen, who is an artist, performs a public performance of literature, art or folk art works) or to carry out by invitation and in the interests of state institutions of culture and art of creative, educational, research and (or) pedagogical activity;
8.3. Invited to the Russian Federation as medical, teaching or scientific workers if they are invited to engage in relevant activities on the territory of the international medical cluster;
8.4. Arrived in the Russian Federation on a guest visit or for the implementation of scientific or cultural relations and contacts and attracted in addition by state institutions of culture and art to carry out the activities specified in subclause 8.2 of this clause for a period not exceeding 30 days; - Accredited employees of representative offices of foreign legal entities accredited in accordance with the established procedure on the territory of the Russian Federation, on the basis of the principle of reciprocity in accordance with international treaties of the Russian Federation;
- Persons under the age of 14 who work in cinematography organizations, theaters, theater and concert organizations, circuses with the consent of one of the parents (official representative/guardian);
- Athletes under the age of 18;
- Foreign citizens recognised as refugees in the territory of the Russian Federation - until they lose their refugee status or are deprived of their refugee status;
- Persons who have received temporary asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation - until the loss of their temporary asylum or deprivation of their temporary asylum;
- Persons who have a temporary identity card of a stateless person in the Russian Federation;
- Specialists in the field of information technology and who have concluded an employment or a civil contract for carrying out labor activities (provision of services) with organizations operating in the field of information technology and have received, in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation, a document on state accreditation of an organization operating in the field of information technology (with the exception of organizations with resident status technical and innovative special economic zone).