DUSHANBE, June 20, 2011, Asia-Plus -- A delegation of Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS), led by Yelena Korolyova, chairperson of the branch of the FMS passport and visa service department for St. Petersburg, and Alexander Nikiforov, deputy director of FMS’s office for St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, visited Tajikistan on June 16-17.

According to the Migration Service of Tajikistan, the purpose of the visit for the FMS officials to discuss labor migration issues with their Tajik counterparts.

The meeting of the Tajik Migration Service head Safiallo Devonayev with visiting FMS officials reportedly focused on Tajik and Russian migration laws and amendments made to them.

In the course of the talks, representatives from the Russian FMS informed their Tajik colleagues of opportunities of employment of labor migrants through the FMS passport and visa service department.

The sides also agreed to work out a mechanism of exchange of information about deported persons and those on whom administration action was imposed, the source said.