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An administrative and legal imbalance in the powers of executive bodies in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the area of external labor migration has been identified: regional powers are focused on labor immigration, while the labor emigration of Russian citizens remains outside the regional administrative framework. It has been demonstrated that this imbalance is caused not by constitutional restrictions, but by inconsistencies in sectoral legislation. A systemic and coordinating model of administrative and legal regulation has been proposed for the first time. This model assigns analytical and coordinating powers to constituent entities of the Russian Federation for recording, monitoring, and forecasting outbound labor flows, as well as provides for the creation of an interdepartmental registry and program-based management. The need for the adoption of a federal law “On External Labor Migration”.