Obligatory procedures for foreign students: medical examination, fingerprinting and photographing

In accordance with the Federal Law of 25.07.2002 No. 115-FZ "On the legal status of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation", all foreign citizens who arrive in the Russian Federation for a period exceeding 90 calendar days are subject to a medical examination, state fingerprinting and photographing.

• Medical examination for the presence or absence of the fact of use of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances without a doctor's prescription or new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances, infectious diseases that pose a danger to others, stated in the list approved by the federal executive body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation, and diseases caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection) – must be taken once a year. 
• Obligatory state fingerprinting and photographing – onсe.

This obligation does not apply to citizens of the Republic of Belarus and foreign students who have a temporary residence permit or a residence permit in the Russian Federation.

Foreign students from the countries of visa entry to Russia must obtain a card of fingerprinting no later than 30 working days before the expiration of the single-entry study visa. This card is obligatory for issuing a multiple-entry study visa and subsequently for extending its validity. 

• The medical examination is provided by an authorized medical organization approved by the Decree of the Government of the Samara Region – Regional Center for Assistance to Migrants. 
  Address: Samara, St. Chernogorskaya, 2. 
  How to get there: from the main campus by the shuttle bus №126c, 126d – get off after the stop "Pedagogical University", tram №13, 23, 2 - get off after the stop "Karbysheva"). 
  Bring with you: passport, notarized translation of the passport, registration and migration card + copies of these documents, phone number, money 13800 rubles in cash or on a bank card. 
  Medical certificates are issued at the Regional Center for Assistance to Migrants a week after the MO.
   
  For more information about medical examination, please visit link. 
  The current cost of services is available at link.
  
  
• Fingerprint registration and photographing are passed at the Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Samara Region. 
  Address: Kabelnaya St., 13A, Entrance 2, floor 1. Room 26. 
  How to get there: by subway to the station «Pobeda», then get on the shuttle bus №213 to the stop "Migration Center"). 
  Bring with you: passport, notarized translation of the passport, registration, migration card, medical certificates (3 pcs) received at the Center on Chernogoskaya St., 2 and copies of these documents, photo (3x4) – 1 pcs.    

Important! When foreign citizens fail to comply with the obligations to take mandatory fingerprinting, photographing and (or) medical examination, the period of their temporary stay in the Russian Federation is reduced. The decision to reduce the temporary stay is sent to the foreign student by mail and transmitted through an authorized employee of the host university. The offender must leave the territory of the Russian Federation within 3 days from the date of the decision to reduce the temporary stay. If this foreign citizen does not leave the Russian Federation within this period, he is subject to the deportation procedure.