CCPR/C/112/D/2126/2011 Law on refugees”.10 Such a decision may be taken by Migration Service officials at any time and the only reason that that had not been done was the Committee’s request for interim measures . The author further maintains that there is no procedure for the judicial review of a deportation decision that would automatically suspend the deportation. If deported he would be prevented from visiting the Russian Federation and seeing his family for at least five years. Additionally, since he has no status in the Russian Federation, he cannot work legally, nor is he entitled to medical or social insurance or support or to move around. The author’s status has remained unchanged since his submission to the Committee. 5.4 The author is concerned at the State party’s suggestion that he leave the country and re-enter in order to regularize his stay. There is no guarantee that if he leaves he would be allowed to re-enter the country. He has no documents with which to leave the country 10 7. The federal executive power body controlling the matters of internal affairs or its territorial subdivision shall forward information on the deportation of a foreign citizen to the federal executive power body controlling the matters of foreign affairs. 8. The federal executive power body controlling the matters of foreign affairs shall inform the diplomatic representation or the consular institution of the foreign State in the Russian Federation, whose national the deported foreign citizen is, on the deportation of the foreign citizen. 9. Foreign citizens subject to deportation shall be kept by court decision in the specially allocated premises of the internal affairs bodies, or in the special institutions established in accordance with the procedure laid down by the law of the subject of the Russian Federation, until the execution of the decision on the deportation.” Available from www.legislationline.org/documents/action/ popup/id/4355. The article reads: “Article 13. Expulsion (deportation) of persons from the territory of the Russian Federation 1. A person receiving a notice dismissing their application on its merits or refusal of refugee status or notice of loss of refugee status or deprivation of refugee status who does not exercise their right to appeal the decision and refuses to leave voluntarily, shall be expelled (deported), together with their accompanying family members from the territory of the Russian Federation in accordance with the present Federal Law, other federal laws and other normative legal acts of the Russian Federation and the international treaties to which the Russian Federation is a party. 2. The person who appeals a decision dismissing their application on its merits or the refusal of refugee status or a decision on the loss of refugee status or deprivation of refugee status and receives notice that their appeal has been rejected, and has no other legal grounds to stay in the territory of the Russian Federation and refuses to voluntarily depart, shall be expelled (deported), together with their accompanying family members, from the territory of the Russian Federation in accordance with the present Federal Law, other federal laws and other normative legal acts of the Russian Federation and the international treaties to which the Russian Federation is a party. 3. A person deprived of the status of refugee or asylum in connection with their conviction for a crime committed in the territory of the Russian Federation shall be subject to expulsion (deportation) from the territory of the Russian Federation after serving their sentence, unless other rules are provided by international treaties to which the Russian Federation is a party. 4. A person who has lost temporary asylum or has been deprived of temporary asylum due to the circumstances provided for in paragraph 5 and paragraph 6, subparagraph 2 of Article 12 of this Federal Law, has no other legal grounds to stay in the territory of the Russian Federation and refuses to leave voluntarily, shall be expelled (deported) from the territory the Russian Federation in accordance with the present Federal Law, other federal laws and other normative legal acts of the Russian Federation and the international treaties to which the Russian Federation is a party. 5. Expulsion (deportation) of persons from the territory of the Russian Federation is carried out by the federal executive body authorized to exercise the functions of control and supervision in the field of migration and its regional authorities, in cooperation with the federal executive body for internal affairs and its territorial bodies.” Available from http://refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain? page=country&docid=527246344&skip=0&coi=RUS&querysi=Law & refugees&searchin=title&sort=date. 7