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>Russia will, by the end of March, deport more than 5,000
>people who stayed in the country illegally after visiting
>for the 2018 World Cup, officials said.
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>The head of the migration department of the Interior
>Ministry, Andrei Kayushin said Friday that of the 650,000
>people who received “Fan ID” permit cards this past summer
>for the World Cup, 5,500 have overstayed their visas.
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>"In the main, they were all law-abiding and left the country
>in their own time,” he said. "We are undertaking operations
>to deport them, and I hope that they will all be deported by
>March 30."
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>Initial reports showed that by the end of the year, 12,000
>people had overstayed their permits but Kayushin said that
>security services swiftly reduced the number to its current
>level.
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>While some came for the soccer and stayed for the culture,
>there were a few cases of people using the “Fan ID” permit
>system to enter Russia as a means to crossing the border
>illegally into European Unions countries. There were fewer
>cases of some reportedly filing for asylum in Russia.
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>The 2018 World Cup was held in Moscow from June 14 to July
>15. France went on to beat Croatia 4-2 in the final.
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>The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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