Checking a foreign national's patent against the Ministry of Internal Affairs database and the self-employed status by INN with the Federal Tax Service — for employers, recruitment agencies and platforms that pay contractors. One API request checks the patent, the professional income tax (NPD) status and the register of controlled persons, and the repeat check before each payout runs on stored data — with no need to upload the documents again.
No subscription fee and no annual packages: you pay for each completed check. A check that is not completed because of missing data is not charged.
Pass the patent series and number, the worker's full name and date of birth — the check returns whether the patent is valid on the date of the request. The system takes the region of issue and the profession from the recognised patent and shows them alongside, so they can be compared with the place and position of work.
The check answers whether the person is registered as a professional income tax payer. If there is no INN, the system obtains it from the Russian passport — as a separate check for the same 5 ₽.
A foreigner without a lawful basis to stay is entered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the register of controlled persons. Every foreign worker needs this check — with a patent, from the EAEU, or with a temporary residence permit or residence permit.
The data from the first run is stored on your side. Before a payout to a self-employed person, or once a month for a patent, the check runs again on the same data — the person does not need to send anything.
Checking a patent for validity answers the employer's main question — whether the person can be admitted to work today. The answer comes for each source separately: what was checked, what was not and why.
What it means: on the date of the request the patent is in the Ministry of Internal Affairs database and has not been terminated — so the personal income tax advance has been paid for the current period and the patent has not been annulled.
What to do: admit to work and schedule the next check for the end date of the paid period.
What it means: the term has ended, the next month was not paid on time, or the patent has been annulled. Such a patent cannot be extended retroactively.
What to do: suspend from work, ask the worker for the reason and, if the contract is terminated, notify the Ministry of Internal Affairs within 3 working days.
What it means: the system takes the region of issue and the profession from the recognised patent. Working in another region or in another profession is the same violation as working without a patent.
What to do: compare with your site and the position; working in a second region requires a second patent.
What it means: an entry in the register — the person has no lawful basis to be in Russia, even if the patent has formally not expired.
What to do: do not conclude a contract; if the person already works — pass the matter to a lawyer.
Checking a work patent for a foreigner fits into the usual onboarding: the HR officer photographs the documents, the system fills in the form and runs the checks, and the decision stays with you. The same scenario suits recruitment agencies that arrange workers for clients.
What the employer must do after the check — notify the Ministry of Internal Affairs, keep the contract — is described on the page on hiring foreign workers
The HR officer photographs the foreign national's passport and patent, or the worker uploads them via a link. Full name, date of birth, passport number, patent series and number, region and profession are recognised automatically.
Every image goes through anti-fraud: a photo of a screen, a printout, traces of an editor, a pasted-in photo. A suspicious document is visible immediately — before the data reaches the HR system.
Based on the recognised data, the patent validity, the register of controlled persons and the Ministry of Internal Affairs wanted list are run. If the worker is from the EAEU or has a temporary residence permit, the patent is not checked — only the register and the wanted list.
An answer for each check: completed or not, found or clear. The region and profession from the patent sit next to the site and position from the application — a mismatch is visible without manual comparison.
The system remembers the date until which the patent is paid and runs the check again. If the advance was not paid on time, the HR officer finds out on the very first day, not at a Ministry of Internal Affairs inspection.
A patent is valid while the fixed personal income tax advance is paid. If a payment is missed, from the next day there is no patent, and the worker may not say so.
The total term of a patent with extensions is no more than a year from the date of issue. After that a re-issued or new patent is needed.
For example, if within two months the worker did not submit to the Ministry of Internal Affairs a notification of work with a copy of the contract. The document stays in hand but has no force.
The stay period has expired, the temporary residence permit or residence permit has been annulled, or an expulsion decision has been made — the data is entered in the register, and the person has no lawful basis to remain in the country.
The person may have left the NPD regime themselves, exceeded the income limit of 2.4 million ₽ a year or hired employees. If there is no status on the payout date, the receipt is invalid.
The worker has been transferred to a site in another constituent entity — a patent of that region is needed. The check shows the region from the patent next to the new work address.
A patent and self-employed status are not one-off marks. A fine is issued for the day the person worked without a basis, not for the day of hiring.
Recommended rhythm: the patent — on the end date of the paid period and once a month, the register of controlled persons — once a month, the self-employed status — before each payout. Why a contractor stops being self-employed is described in detail on the page on self-employed platforms
Checking a self-employed person online by a single INN is available on the Federal Tax Service website. A platform and a customer need the same check, but at the moment the decision is made — and without manual entry. Here are three such moments.
How the platform law changes the checking of contractors from 1 October 2026 — on the page on self-employed and freelance platforms; couriers and drivers — delivery and taxi.
The first admission to orders.
A receipt is valid only if the contractor is self-employed on the settlement date.
An employee becomes self-employed, or a self-employed person works only for you.
Not every foreigner needs a patent. The basis for work determines the set of checks — and how much you pay for it. Here is how to choose.
Each check runs separately or together with others in one request. The full list is in the catalogue of checks.
A patent, the register of controlled persons, wanted lists and document recognition — what the HR service checks before the contract and repeats during the year.
Whether the patent is valid on the date of the request.
Required: patent series and number, full name, date of birth.
5 ₽
Learn moreWhether the person is in the register of foreigners without a lawful basis to stay.
Required: Full name, date of birth, the foreigner's document and its date of issue.
5 ₽
Learn moreWhether the person is on the federal wanted list.
Required: full name and full date of birth.
5 ₽
Learn moreSeries, number, region and profession from the patent photo — into the form; an image check for forgery.
Required: a patent photo in a KYC session.
10 ₽ per document
Learn moreNPD payer status, INN and the checks a platform runs before admitting to orders and before large payouts.
Whether the person is registered as an NPD payer.
Required: INN.
5 ₽ · included in '16 in 1'
Learn moreThe person's INN for checks without namesakes.
Required: Russian passport, full name with patronymic, date of birth.
5 ₽ · included in '16 in 1'
Learn moreDebts with the bailiffs — important before large payouts.
Required: full name and date of birth.
5 ₽ · included in '16 in 1'
Learn moreA match with the list is a reason to freeze a payout under Federal Law No. 115-FZ on AML/CFT.
Required: full name and date of birth.
5 ₽ · included in '16 in 1'
Learn moreOne purchase instead of separate checks for contractors with a Russian passport, and screening for foreign contractors and large payouts.
Passport validity, INN, self-employed status, the list, sanctions, foreign agents, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Federal Penitentiary Service and Federal Bailiff Service wanted lists, enforcement proceedings, alimony, bankruptcy, pledges, arbitration and courts.
50 ₽ per package, 80 ₽ separately
Learn moreSanctions, PEP and negative publications — for foreign contractors and large payouts.
Required: first name, last name, date of birth, country.
36 ₽
Learn more12 of the 16 checks in the package work by full name and date of birth — for foreigners.
5 ₽ per check
Learn moreAdministrative Offences Code, Art. 18.15, Parts 1 and 4
Admitting to work without a patent, in another profession or outside the region of issue — a fine for the organisation of 250 000 to 800 000 ₽ or suspension of activity for up to 90 days; in Moscow, St Petersburg, the Moscow and Leningrad regions — up to 1 million ₽. Separately for each foreigner. The amounts are per the Administrative Offences Code as worded on the publication date.
Administrative Offences Code, Art. 18.15, Part 3
The employer or customer notifies the Ministry of Internal Affairs of a contract with a foreigner and of its termination no later than 3 working days. A failure to do so — from 400 000 to 800 000 ₽ for the organisation. The amounts are per the Administrative Offences Code as worded on the publication date. The employer's obligations are on the page on hiring foreigners.
115-FZ, Art. 13.3, para. 1
An employer with an unfulfilled ruling for unlawfully engaging foreigners may not engage workers on a patent.
422-FZ, Art. 15
Without a receipt the payout does not reduce profit tax, and contributions are charged as for an ordinary contract with a private individual. A receipt is invalid if on the payout date the person is not an NPD payer.
289-FZ, Art. 5 and 15
From 1 October 2026 the platform operator checks information about a future partner before the contract, and working with a self-employed contractor through the platform is possible only if the features of civil-law relations are observed. For platforms — on the page on self-employed people.
Administrative Offences Code
A guide, not a legal opinion
A single patent or a single INN can be checked free of charge in state services: the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Gosuslugi for a patent, the Federal Tax Service website for self-employed status. For a private person and a small staff this is enough.
Every patent number and INN must be retyped, the answer saved and the repeat check in a month remembered. With 200 workers this is a separate HR officer position and a risk of a typo in every row.
At a Ministry of Internal Affairs inspection the employer shows what was checked. The API answer arrives with a date and a source and is stored in your system, not in a browser screenshot.
A payout to a self-employed person, the end of the patent's paid period, a transfer to another site — the check runs by itself at the right moment, with no calendar reminders.
The Federal Tax Service for self-employed status is designed for a check by a single INN and date. NeuroVision handles the flow: one request per worker, all checks at once, a repeat on a schedule
You pay for a completed check — with no subscription fee. A check skipped because of missing data is not charged.
5 ₽ per check
A patent against the Ministry of Internal Affairs database, self-employed status, INN from the passport, the register of controlled persons, wanted lists — each separately. A repeat before a payout is also 5 ₽.
16 checks on a Russian passport in one run, including self-employed status, INN, wanted lists and debts. Separately — 80 ₽.
from 16 ₽ per session
Passport recognition and anti-fraud, the patent — as an additional document for 10 ₽. The data goes straight into the checks.
Example: hiring a worker on a patent — passport and patent recognition (16 ₽ + 10 ₽), the patent, the register of controlled persons and the wanted list (3 × 5 ₽) — 41 ₽; a monthly repeat of the patent and the register — 10 ₽. The price depends on volume — calculator in the price matrix.
Cloud or installation in your environment. Support under the contract, via a ticket system.
Get test accessTerms that appear in the check answer and in a conversation with a lawyer.
The platform economy law, passport checking and protection from forged documents — in our blog.
A single patent can be checked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs service or on Gosuslugi. If there are many foreigners, an API check is more convenient: you pass the patent series and number, the worker's full name and date of birth and receive an answer on whether the patent is valid on the date of the request, together with a check against the Ministry of Internal Affairs register of controlled persons. The cost is 5 ₽ per check.
A patent is valid while the worker pays the personal income tax advance for each month, and for no longer than 12 months from the date of issue. It can be annulled, and the person can be entered in the register of controlled persons. A fine is issued for working without a valid patent on any day, so the check is repeated at the end of the paid period and once a month.
No: against the Ministry of Internal Affairs databases we check the patent and the register of controlled persons. A work permit, temporary residence permit and residence permit are recognised from a photo and checked for signs of forgery. If a temporary residence permit or residence permit is annulled, the person enters the register of controlled persons — we do perform this check.
No. EAEU citizens work in Russia without a patent and a work permit. For them it is enough to check the passport and the register of controlled persons, and the employer must notify the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the contract in the same way as for other foreigners.
Pass the INN — the check returns whether the person is registered as a professional income tax payer. If there is no INN, the system obtains it from the Russian passport. Each check is 5 ₽; self-employed status is also included in the basic package of 16 checks for 50 ₽.
Before each payout. A receipt is valid only if the contractor is self-employed on the settlement date, and a person can deregister, exceed the limit of 2.4 million ₽ or hire employees. The repeat runs on the stored INN, and the documents are not needed again.
Yes, if they are a citizen of an EAEU state or Ukraine: such citizens register as NPD payers. A foreigner on a patent cannot be self-employed — a contract is concluded with them and the patent is checked.
Do not admit the person to work and find out the reason: a month was not paid, the term expired or the patent was annulled. If the contract is terminated, the employer notifies the Ministry of Internal Affairs no later than 3 working days. The decision on the contract is made by the employer — the check provides the grounds.
The check works with personal data, so the basis for processing must be determined in advance — a contract with the worker or contractor, or their consent. How to draw up the consent and what to state in it is best decided with a lawyer; the general rules are on the page checks against databases.
5 ₽ for a check of a patent, self-employed status or the register of controlled persons. Passport recognition — from 16 ₽ per session, the patent as an additional document — 10 ₽. A package of 16 checks on a Russian passport — 50 ₽. There is no subscription fee.
Tell us how many foreign workers or self-employed contractors you have and how often you pay them — we will propose a set of checks, a repeat rhythm and a price estimate.
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