Prohibition of entry into the Republic of Belarus

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, more than 1.2 million people are included in the list of foreigners whose entry into the Republic of Belarus is prohibited or undesirable.

Based on the experience of the lawyers of our Law Office for appealing against the ban on entry into Belarus, the following main reasons for imposing this ban can be identified:

In relation to a foreigner to whom deportation or deportation was applied, the issue of the time period for the prohibition of entry into the Republic of Belarus is being decided. If deportation has been applied, the term for the prohibition of entry may be from 6 months to 5 years; if deportation has been applied, from 6 months to 10 years. The term of the ban is established taking into account the circumstances that served as the basis for the decision on deportation or expulsion, as well as information characterizing the identity of the foreigner and related to his stay in the Republic of Belarus.

According to the Law “On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens”, a foreigner may be denied entry if he was subjected to an administrative penalty in the form of a fine during his stay in the Republic of Belarus and did not pay it within the time period established by the legislative acts of the Republic of Belarus for the execution of the decision on administrative penalties in the form of a fine. In this case, you can remove the ban on entry after paying an administrative fine and applying to the competent authorities with a request to exclude from the list of persons whose entry into Belarus is prohibited or undesirable.

The period of stay of a foreigner in the territory of the Republic of Belarus shall not exceed 90 days in one calendar year (exceptions are foreigners who have received a permit for temporary or permanent residence, as well as foreigners with international agreements that allow them to stay in Belarus for longer periods, for example Ukraine, Israel, etc.). If the specified period is exceeded, the foreigner will be included in the list of persons whose entry into Belarus is prohibited or undesirable.

With the adoption of Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 8 dated 01/09/2017 “On the establishment of a visa-free procedure for entry and exit of foreign citizens”, which established a visa-free procedure for entry into the Republic of Belarus for a period of not more than 30 days through the Minsk National Airport, cases of the introduction of foreigners became more frequent to the list of persons whose entry into Belarus is forbidden or not desirable. The ban is imposed due to the fact that the text of the Decree does not contain information on the prohibition of departure from the Republic of Belarus to the Russian Federation, and arrival to the Republic of Belarus from the Russian Federation while in the Republic of Belarus according to the rules of a visa-free regime, and foreigners, unknowingly, fly to the Russian Federation, thereby violating the rules of visa-free stay, since flights to the Russian Federation are considered internal, on which foreigners do not pass customs control, and, therefore, are still located in Belarus.

In accordance with the Intergovernmental Agreement of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus of 03.03.2015, if there are grounds for applying a ban on entry, a foreigner is prohibited from entering simultaneously in 2 countries. Those. if the competent authorities of the Russian Federation have decided to ban the entry of a foreigner into the Russian Federation, such a foreigner will be denied entry to the Republic of Belarus.

The lawyers of our Law Office have extensive positive experience in resolving the issue of lifting the ban on entry into the Republic of Belarus. In the event that the competent authorities of the Republic of Belarus initiated the ban on entry, we will be able to lift the ban in the Russian Federation as well.

The help of our lawyers is as follows: