Sort Factory

On TV, they have repeatedly shown how Moscow cares about foreigners - how quickly and simply they can now get the treasured documents. And this is all true. Almost. Until people who turn a transparent and understandable process into ordinary hell interfere

What do Tajik, American and Egyptian, who decided to live in Moscow? At night in nightmares they dream of a tiny village of Sakharovo - a metropolitan attraction, about which Muscovites know nothing. The multifunctional migration center (MMC) in the Sakharovo village 65 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road is the only place where a foreign citizen living and working in Moscow can submit documents and get a patent for work, temporary residence permit, residence permit and Russian citizenship. The exception is only those to whom the Russian passport is presented by the president "For special merits." Prior to the liquidation of the FMS, the regional and territorial departments of the FMS were engaged in the legalization of foreigners, until mid-November 2016, all the necessary documents were drawn up, in particular, in the large passport and visa center at Novoslobodskaya. Multi -day queues, at night, scandals and crush.

When a huge MMC complex was built on the territory of the former military unit in the territory of the former military unit, it was assumed that there would occur quiet, surface and electronic queue. But it turned out as always. Humiliation and violence in many hours of lines in inhuman conditions. Unless now all this migration hell has been removed from the eyes of Muscovites down.

Dawn for a thorn

MMC in appearance is more like a zone: barbed wire, division into sector with a checkpoint and turntables, dozens of guards. There are and IVS in the territory for forced deportation. More than five thousand people will storm the center daily. They stand in the heat and frost in the hangar-drive, waiting for their turn for 8-10 hours. Units manage to hand over the documents the first time.

Migrants in line photo: Anton Carliner/Schchi for TD

Barely dawn. At half -past five in the parking lot, MMC has two dozen cars. A peppy young man comes up to me. “Why aren't you going to sign up? You will miss now, by seven in the morning you will be the eighties in line. And per day, a maximum of one hundred and fifty people are accepted on RVP and residence permit. And people from the hotel will also run and come with coupons. ”

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At the entrance to the parking, two in an inconspicuous Korean foreign car are lists for the entrance. The surname is recorded and in the palm of the black marker set the queue number. At 5.40 in the morning there are already 32 surnames in the list. I would sign up, but only accompanying a disabled person and those who want to abandon Russian citizenship are allowed with a Russian passport. There is a chance to break into the territory and the husband/wife of a foreign citizen. But already at the second checkpoint, the Russian will be wrapped in the passage bureau - it will be necessary to convince the officials that he definitely needs there. They say that a rare day is without a scandal. At 5.55 in the morning, the car with the list is already a small line. The people are becoming tangibly more.

Representatives of the “legal” offices at the entrance are organized by the services providing services for filling out and preparing documents for various migration statuses. Thus, they are guaranteed to provide their customers with places in the forefront. Their services start from 10 thousand rubles to several hundred thousand.

The number in the queue is recorded on the hand of the woman photo: Anton Carliner/Schchi for TD

At 7.15, the roll call and construction begins. Several hundred people - and at this time more than three hundred gathered, and more than 120 numbers were painted - crushing each other, gather around a person with a list. He shouts numbers, and people, squeezing through the system, enter the corral-coror. The crush begins. Someone climbs over a metal fence, pounced on it and try to pull it back. People pull their hands up with numbers drawn on their palms. The traditional "you did not stand here." Surprisingly, places do not trade in the queue. A dark -skinned guy wrapped in a long down jacket is brought past me in a stream in the corridor, he is bewilderedly holding a hand over his head with number 27. A good number. A few more hours of humiliation, but he will definitely get to the inspector today. Not everyone is lucky. Almost all gathered - citizens of different republics of the former Soviet Union. But in the crowd I see several passports of citizens of Vietnam, Congo and two Hindus in traditional turbans. Their manager calls the queue aksakals.

It is strictly forbidden to leave the hotel until the morning. Flights shine in the windows at night

At the same time, somewhere inside the perimeter, in the hotel behind the barbed wire, the guests are built in the same line with a roll call. The numbers on the palms are not written. The list was made on the eve of the time of settlement. A few hundred rubles for the night in total rooms on two -story beds - a fee for the opportunity to be guaranteed to get to the migration center on the right day. Usually, those who do not have enough spirit to storm the entrance from the street are populated into the MMC Hotel. Just do not go to the hotel. It is imported into it with special buses. It is strictly prohibited to leave the hotel until the morning from the hotel, to buy food or just walk around the territory. Flights shine in the windows at night. Like in the zone.

Street gearbox and hotel doors open simultaneously at 7.45. The hotel at the hotel has an obvious handicap. Their path to the cherished door of the MMC is 200 meters and two gearboxes are shorter than that of the "street". In addition, everyone is released from the hotel at once, and in groups are launched from the street. From the first checkpoint to the doors of the MMC 500-600 meters. After 100 meters, another checkpoint with security, turntables, frames and inspection.

Ringing and building a queue photo: Anton Carliner/Schchi for TD

The street list is valid only until the intersection of the first line - access to the guards at the first checkpoint. And then everything is simple - who will reach faster. Although the guard shouts menacingly: “Do not run, walk” - the people go to run as soon as possible. At eight in the morning, passengers of a special flight bus from Anino metro are added to the crazy race. The day has begun.

Something went wrong

“Sakharovo is very similar to a factory for sorting people. A huge territory. Everything is divided into sectors and zones, metal fences and gratings. You need to follow the territory in a certain road, cut the corner - immediately shout to the mouthpiece. I often saw this in refugee camps in different countries, ”says one of the visitors to the center. He is married to a Russian woman, lives in Moscow for many years. Now trying to get a residence permit. I handed over all the documents in early September to the center on Novoslobodskaya. For the eighth month, the fate of documents has not been known. Although, according to the law, the decision should be made within a six -month period. Theoretically, you can learn about the readiness of documents through the information system. But the data there are not updated for months, so they hang the entire term with the status of “adopted in processing”, it is impossible to get information by phone. You have to go personally and lose all day. For traffic jams, the bus rides to the metro for two to three hours.

“To receive ready -made residence permits and RVP a huge queue. But before you get into it for a couple of hours, you need to defend one more to the window, where they must give a certificate that the documents are ready, go to the queue for a dactyloscopy and then take the ticket in line to receive the finished document. I was in MMC at 8.40 in the morning. There were no coupons for this day. Everyone is standing. There is nowhere to sit down. You can’t sign up online and you can’t get a coupon remotely. Many spend in queues in the center from eight in the morning to close at eight in the evening and leave, without reaching the desired window. ”

View of the multifunctional migration center photo: Anton Carliner/Schchi for TD

In fact, after an hour, the first checkpoint will not have a queue. From the gate, people will switch inside the perimeter and there everyone will be dispersed there in their own separate lines. For example, a work patent can be arranged almost painlessly. There are no problems for those who still went through all circles and come for a new Russian passport.

Ordinary mess

Documents are accepted both according to the pre -records and in a live queue. It is impossible to get a coupon remotely. You will also have to go behind the coupon, choke in lines. The people, having reached it, records for the future, gaining coupons on different dates and creates a multi -month queue from dead souls, simultaneously storming the line live. The living queue is more merciless, but more understandable. Since April, the coupons stopped issuing uncontrollably, the lists have passed, and the recording immediately decreased from two to three months to a couple of weeks.

The units are able to hand over documents the first time. Someone is wrapped for objective reasons. Others stumble about the nit -picking of inspectors and their different ideas about the beautiful. Two questionnaires are filled the same - the questionnaire skipped the questionnaire, and the second is wrapped, clinging to the words. Favorite nit -picking - abbreviations. “The last time I was wrapped up due to the incomplete decoding of the Ukrainian SSR. They demanded a whole to write, - the Ukrainian Marina complains to me in the queue. She tries to hand over documents for a residence permit for the third time. “But I already handed over the questionnaire before, and there were no complaints about writing the name of the republic.”

The guards do not let people into the migration center photo: Anton Carliner/Schchi for TD

“What to complete - not to guess in advance,” adds a young man standing next to us. He also has a blue Ukrainian passport and a thick folder with documents. - I read stories about the main reasons why the documents are wrapped, and decided to fill out several options at once. I hope I’ll guess, ”he laughs.

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“Each inspector sees the correct filling of the questionnaire in its own way. One corrects the “RF” to the “Russian Federation”, and after the correction of the other, the inspector in a week or two (since the line is huge) asks to replace the “Russian Federation” with “RF”. It is useless to prove anything to them. It is impossible to get to the head of the department, since he accepts three hours a day once a week, ”Tahir Usmanov wrote in a letter. For several months he tried to make a residence permit to the elderly dad for several months. It is the most difficult for people to break through the system. They cannot run fast. At the beginning of winter, during a cross from the gate to the doors of the MMC, an elderly foreigner died from a heart attack.

The multifunctional migration center Sakharovo is a vivid illustration of what people can turn the right idea into - to collect in one large complex all the services necessary for a foreign citizen to legalize in the Russian Federation. In Sakharov, you can draw up a patent for work, submit documents and get permission to temporarily stay, residence permit, citizenship, pass a medical examination, pass the necessary exams in the Russian language, history and the basics of legislation. As in all modern metropolitan multifunctional centers in Sakharov, you can pay through the terminals all the necessary duties, take a picture, print or copy documents. Line in a large light dining room and even use the labor exchange. The metropolitan MMC is recognized as a role model and the project of the year. Other regions are ordered to equal him.

Rainbow plots on state television channels have repeatedly shown how Moscow cares about foreigners who came to live and work in the Russian capital, how to quickly and simply go through all the procedures and get the necessary documents, how transparent and accessible all services are. And this is all true. Almost. Until people interfere in business. People on both sides of the barbed wire MMC. Both inspectors and documents of documents bring their unique flavor into a simple document management and turn the transparent and understandable process into ordinary blood pressure.