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SM98123 · Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

If a company supplies you a work or business visa, can they cancel the visa? if so, anyone know how they do it, how long it takes, or the process?

thanks

maruss · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 1145 Location: Cyprus

The bureaucracy in Russia is often mind-boggling and if somebody wants to make trouble for you there are many ways of doing it:If your employer notifies immigration that you are no longer employed by them, then technically your work-permit is no longer valid so you don't have legal reasons to be in Russia, on the basis that they brought you there in the first place to work for them.Unless of course you entered on a tourist visa or business visa,but then that does not legally allow you to work!
In the first instance it would depend if you left your job on good terms and your employer agreed that you would not leave Russia immediately?

Sashadroogie · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject:

I think we had a question like this on the forum recently - to my knowledge the answer remains the same. No company can cancel a visa: only the Russian authorities can do this.

Re a Work Visa, the company would need to provide a reason as to why the authrities should cancel the visa, i.e. they need to show that employment has been lawfully terminated, and they also need to have the employee's passport and visa to submit to the authorities. However, the Russian Labor Code describes very clearly how employment is to be terminated properly. It provides for an appeals process where termination can be contested by the employee, if he thinks it is unfair dismissal. Thus begins a process of arbitration, which no employer would dream of getting involved in, for fear of the tax inspection that is entailed therein.

I think a similar situation holds for Business Visa, but you would need to seek legal advice on that.

Regardless of whether the dismissal is unfair or not, no company would run the risk of tax-dodging coming to light, so I would say you are fairly safe unless your company has your documents and passport in their possesion.

Hope that helps.

SM98123 · Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

Yeah, they don't have my documents or passport.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject:

Oh OK. Sorted, then, man.

But if in doubt, contact a suitable lawer type who will advise you in better detail than can be done here. Legal-eagle students being the obvious first choice!

Good luck.