The Commonwealth of Independent States plans to adopt the Common Migration Space Concept in 2026, which will help develop legal migration and combat illegal migration more effectively, CIS Secretary-General Sergey Lebedev said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to Sergey Lebedev, the formation of a coordinated migration policy in the CIS is taking into account global trends and is one of the priority areas of cooperation.
Sergey Lebedev particularly noted the role of the Russian Federation, which traditionally attracts the largest number of labor migrants within the CIS, in regulating migration processes across the Commonwealth space. He mentioned an experiment which is being conducted in Russia to test the rules and conditions for the entry of foreign citizens, with the exception of citizens of Belarus who enjoy rights identical to those of Russians. It provides for new mechanisms of biometric identification, the digitalization of migration registration processes, and the work of foreigners under patents.
According to the CIS Secretary-General, new national approaches to regulating migration processes are constantly being studied and analyzed within the CIS, and mutually acceptable proposals are being developed both at multilateral and bilateral levels.
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