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Foreign students studying in Russian universities do not need to go home to extend their visa any more, RIAMO reports. The head of Fellowship international youth civil organization Mahomed Aliyev has stated this at the round table about peculiarities of working with foreign students in Moscow held in the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Aliyev has reminded that one aspect of the problem with student visas, which was a hot topic of the end of last year, has been eventually resolved. Now students can extend their visas without leaving Russia at the request of the university. He stated that this question was earlier discussed in the Ministry of Education and Science at the highest level, as well as with the State Duma deputies and with Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Besides, Ministry of Education and Science received a request of organizing legal aid to foreign students so that they could learn their rights and obligations as soon as possible while staying in Russia.
Note that Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation proposed to simplify the procedure of issuing educational visas for foreign students last summer. In accordance with regulations on visas, a student is given an educational visa for three months with possibility to further extend it for the whole period of studying.
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