mtravelkay wrote:

maryanne kehoe wrote:

Yes, but as I understand it the immigration card lists ALL of your
addresses that you will be at during your time in the country. A lot of
people were staying in private accomodation and not registering with the
local militia (police) as is required within 72 hours of arriving in the
country. The immigration card was designed to counteract that.

How does this prevent people from lieing about the addresses they will
be staying at? How does this change anything? If the concern is about
illegal immigrants, then they should be able to determine if they have a
valid visa or not, and if it has been registered. How does the
immigration card improve on this, other than give you a second piece of
Russian government paper to carry around?


Sounds like she has the issue of internal Russian migration (domestic
residence permits are required for some Russian cities) confused with
this immigration card....

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Greg