The Novgorod Region supports repatriates

As part of the Novgorod Region programme to assist the voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of compatriots living abroad, the Government of the Novgorod Region also extends measures aimed at supporting participants in the State Programme and their family members to compatriots who are repatriates.

The Programme provides for a set of measures aimed at assisting the resettlement of compatriots from abroad to the Novgorod Region:

🟨assistance with temporary accommodation for arriving participants in the State Programme for Assisting the Voluntary Resettlement of Compatriots Living Abroad to the Russian Federation (GPP), including through their own funds

🟨assistance in attracting to the Novgorod Region scientists working on current scientific and technological challenges, as well as students, postgraduate students and medical residents living abroad

🟨matching job vacancies for GPP participants during the stage of agreeing with compatriots living abroad on the possibility of resettling to their chosen settlement area

🟨providing state support measures to GPP participants and their family members to assist with employment and training through vocational retraining and professional development programmes, taking into account labour market needs

🟨supporting the social and cultural adaptation and integration of compatriots, including with the participation of public organizations and diasporas

🟨organizing the provision of social guarantees to GPP participants and their family members who have arrived to live in the Novgorod Region and have been registered by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs' Novgorod Region Directorate as GPP participants, in the form of the following social support measures:

▶️ relocation allowance (a one-time cash payment)
in an amount equal to the minimum wage, established by Federal Law No. 82-FZ of June 19, 2000, “On the Minimum Wage”

▶️compensation for 50% of the costs of the down payment when obtaining a loan to purchase housing — up to 150,000 rubles.

▶️compensation for the costs of medical examination — up to 8,000 rubles.

▶️compensation for GPP participants' expenses for recognition of academic degrees, academic titles, education and/or qualifications obtained in a foreign state — up to 20,000 rubles.

🟨consultations on support for GPP participants and their family members in establishing small and medium-sized businesses, including peasant (farm) enterprises.

A GPP participant is entitled to social support measures for the period of validity of the State Programme participant certificate, after being registered as a State Programme participant with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs' Novgorod Region Directorate.

Social support measures are provided to a GPP participant once only.

Social support measures are provided by the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Policy of the Novgorod Region.

A separate set of documents must be submitted by the GPP participant or their representative for each social support measure.

The costs incurred by the Novgorod Region in providing a social support measure to a GPP participant are subject to recovery if the participant loses GPP participant status in accordance with paragraphs 25 and 26 of the State Programme, voluntarily relinquishes GPP participant status, or leaves the Novgorod Region to live permanently elsewhere earlier than 3 years after being registered as a GPP participant with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs' Novgorod Region Directorate.

Resolution of the Government of the Novgorod Region “On Approval of the Procedure for Providing Social Support Measures to Participants in the State Programme to Assist the Voluntary Resettlement to the Russian Federation of Compatriots Living Abroad in 2026–2030”

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