Family reunification as the tendency of contemporary migration policy: problems of implementation and perspectives of improvement

The article is devoted to the problems connected with the perspective implementation of the institution of family reunification of foreign nationals into Russian national legal system. Distinctive features of the phenomenon of family reunification are analyzed through the prism of international and foreign experience in the field of migration, as well as through the current state of the Russian migration legislation. The article highlights the problem of unequal status of a sponsor and his family members. It is proposed to determine the list of family members on the basis of the requirements of family law provisions concerning individuals bound to pay spouse and child support. In order to eliminate the existing terminological uncertainty and legal fouls the author proposes a new definition of the institution of family reunification. In conclusion, the author justifies the necessity to improve regulatory acts concerning the legal status of foreign nationals in the RF in terms of clarification of limits and procedure of reunification: requirements to be met by the sponsor and his family reunification application; the list of documents legitimating the residence of migrants and their family members in the territory of the receiving state; restrictions on repeated and consecutive or "chain" family reunification of foreign nationals.

family reunification, foreign national, migrant, family member, sponsor, migration policy, state, European Union, marriage, highly-skilled specialists

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