Work permits for highly qualified specialists

HQS or highly qualified specialists are foreign specialists who can be fast-tracked for a three year Russian work permit. One condition to get an HQS status is a yearly salary of 2 million Rubles and higher.

By contacting us, you will receive comprehensive answers to such questions as:

• Registration HQS’s for work;
• Getting work permits of HQS’s;
• How to get a work visa for HQS’s.

We will also advise you on the necessary documents, the specifics of drafting work contracts with a highly qualified employee, and help you arrange multiple entry visas to the Russian Federation for relatives of a hired specialist.

The cost of a work permit for HQS’s:

Travelmart only provides services to legal entities registered in Moscow or the Moscow Region.

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The due date is calculated from the moment of submission of the documents to the Ministry of Internal Affairs

The basic package includes:

• Getting a work permit and an invitation for a work visa (or its extension without leaving the country);
• Filing a notice of employment;
• paying stamp duty;
• escort to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to obtain the hard copy of a work permit for a highly qualified foreign employee.

To be legally employed in the Russian Federation foreign HQS’s have to have a work visa and a work permit. Travelmart only provides help in hiring HQS’s to legal entities registered in Moscow or the Moscow Region.

Perks of getting a work visa for HQS’s:

• The possibility of getting a work permit for 3 years;
• You don’t have to get quotas and permits for hiring foreign labour;
• Fast track to getting a work permit and invitation;
• Unlike with regular work visas, an HQS wouldn’t have to pass Russian language, law and history exams;
• The possibility of adding additional regions to the work permit if the employer has branches or separate subdivisions in these regions;
• The possibility of getting visas for a foreign employee’s family members;
• It’s allowed to register at the place of arrival during the first 90 days;
• You can extend work permits for HQS’s without travelling outside the Russian Federation an unlimited number of times.

The procedure for hiring HQSs is simplified and takes much less time compared to the procedure of hiring foreign specialists of quota/out-of-quota professions.

More about hiring HQS’s here.