Jekaterinburg
I did my first visa before going to Russia in the police station in Serbia. At that time, they were still blue (FRY) passports. This visa was resident, but we were able to register a stay at a certain address based on it and obtain work permits. It happened that some workers left the company and remained in Russia after the expiration of their visa. Sometimes they simply miss the terminal and sometimes arrange with a customs officer, gave him a dollar note and they close an eye. In Moscow, policemen were constantly patrolled at airports and they were chasing law-breakers.
Anyone who was suspicious they would check him , and if there were any reason for line, they used it to warn with line. Then our man would start to beg, offer money, and in most cases they would accept about the sum. There have been cases where police officers tried to confuse those who had correct documents.
Starting with the threats, they invent an irregularity, and it happens that our worker does not know Russian, and then scared he offers money and they accept it.
Some workers were afraid that the company will not invite them to return and they decided to stay in Russia illegally. Among them was Milomir Pavić. Several of them, who had been without documents after a month, were invited to go to Serbia and then will receive letters of invitation.
Several people were missing, and a few were returned from the airport. They had to go the immigration service because their documents were invalid. In the immigration service they paid a fine of about $ 100 and got an exit visa.
The immigration service had tolerated a violation not older than three years. If someone has two violations, he would not be allowed to approve it by becoming of a letter of invitation for the next three years. It was all in Moscow. When a call letter was made for Milomir Pavić, he asked the company to buy him a ticket for Tivat. He wanted to avoid travelling through Moscow.
Construction site in Yekaterinburg
The company bought him an air ticket to Tivat, but the customs officer returned it back. He had go to the immigration service. He was not lucky again there. On that day, the director of the service was strict. They had some problems with illegal workers from Uzbekistan and all officials had to act strictly under the law.
He was double-punished.The first is a prison punishment of 30 days, and the second is a ban on entering the territory of the Russian Federation for five years. He was taken to prison at once.
The office director to get in touch with the prison officer through one acquaintance. He promised to release him from prison before the expiration of 30 days, provided that we deliver his airline and he immediately leave Russia. So we did, and he left.
A week later he took a passport in Serbia from a relative (blue, Yugoslav, in which the photo was just stamped, there was no hologram), and he gave it to a forger to replace his photo. Based on this passport, his mistress sent him a letter of invitation to arrive as guest for 90 days. He make a visa with that letter in that passport in a Russian embassy in Belgrade. He quickly arrived in Yekaterinburg.
The office director said that he would not see him at the construction site because he does not want new problems. However, his friend, the site director called the general manager said that without people can not finish the work and that this man is urgently needed. The General agreed that he can start the work again. He worked until the visa expired and then returned to Serbia. He again took the passport, now from another cousin, did the same thing and he returned to Yekaterinburg, but the new office director did not want to talk about his resuming the work.
He spent two weeks in town, he met his Irina, and then he went back to Serbia. In the meantime, the old passports have not to be valid anymore, and the possibility of such a trip has always fallen off. He could not come to Russia anymore. They said that he had taken out a new (red, Serbian passport), but arrival in Russia was impossible.
Every day He talked with Irina through the Skype. Some of the colleagues they knew Irina, asked her about him. After a month, she told them that he spent a week with her in Ukraine. She said her husband that she had a symposium in Moscow and travelled to Ukraine. Those who worked with him knew that there was no money, and that while he was on the construction site he constantly borrowed from them. Among them there was one who knew his neighbour.
Through SMS they contacted his neighbour and he told them that Milomir sold the cow before leaving to Ukraine. There was a lot of jokes about him. However, after two weeks he suddenly appeared in Yekaterinburg. Everyone was amazed, they wondered how he managed to come. He explained to them that the Russian migration service in the document he received did not write his personal number that required in all our documents. It was irrelevant for the foreign service.
He used this circumstance by having officially changed his name in Serbia and he got the passport with new data. Milomir Pavić became Mile Pavlović. He first denied all the stories related to the sale of cow, and then he would answer to anyone who said that with vulgar words. After finish the work, we all had to go back to Serbia.
Construction site in Ufa
Two years later, Mile Pavlović worked at a new construction site in Ufa. He often met Irina. She came to Ufa, and sometimes he came to Yekaterinburg. In Ufa also worked his son who lived with him in the same apartment.
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Goran