In 2022, the number of foreign citizens who came to Russia to seek jobs reached 3.47 million. This is a third, or 871 thousand people, more than a year earlier. According to the data, more than 90% of labor migrants in total came from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Kommersant reported with reference to FinExpertiza.

According to the study, the influx of labor migrants from Uzbekistan increased by 35.1%, or by 377.7 thousand people.

The number of people who came to work from Tajikistan also increased (by 51.8%, or by 336.7 thousand people), Kyrgyzstan (17.7%, 84.6 thousand), Kazakhstan (118.3%, 62 thousand) , Azerbaijan (21.1%, 16.6 thousand), Vietnam (an increase of more than nine times, up to 8 thousand), Moldova (87.7%, 4.1 thousand), Turkey (12.9% , 2 thousand), Turkmenistan (an increase of almost 100 times, up to 1.6 thousand) and China (12.2%, 1.3 thousand).

Meanwhile, less labor migrants began to come to Russia from Armenia (the number decreased by 8.7%, to 15.6 thousand people), Ukraine (52.3%, to 8.3 thousand), Serbia (19.8% , up to 880), Germany (19.3%, up to 752), France (22.2%, up to 548), Italy (20.8%, up to 541), USA (29.5%, up to 410), Czech Republic (47.8%, up to 361), Austria (36.4%, up to 341) and the Netherlands (37%, up to 275 people).

During the year, the number of registration of foreigners, including renewal of registrations and re-registration, topped 11.8 million. More than 40% of registrations were in Moscow and the Moscow region.

Labor migrants were also often registered in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Krasnodar Territory, Irkutsk Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Amur Region, Primorsky Territory, Tatarstan and Krasnoyarsk Territory. Foreigners considered the Nenets Autonomous Okrug the least attractive for work, where they registered 2,000 times at the place of residence.

In November 2022, the government submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the reorganization of migration registration. It expands the use of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the services of the departmental Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Passport and Visa Service" and the specialized Moscow "migration" MFC for processing documents for labor migrants and registering citizens at the place of residence.

The government believes that this will simplify the process of legalizing the entry of migrants to work in Russia. However, the President's Human Rights Council sent a sharply critical response to the bill.