Migration policy: administrative and legal aspects

The article considers the features of migration policy of the Russian Federation. In a chain of reasoning the authors investigated specificity of administrative and legal regulation in the migratory sphere. It is certain that migration policy represents the complete system of political and legal, social, economic, and ideological measures for regulation of migratory processes which are moderated by the federal legislation. In conclusion, the migration policy, which transforms under the influence of the bipolar and hardly predicted circumstances, needs improvement.