The sociocultural and language adaptation of immigrants is a natural outgrowth of the long-term residence in an alien socio-cultural environment. At the same time this process requires particular attention at the government level because the full integration of an immigrant into the life of his new homeland represents a considerable challenge to pursue consistent and target policies. The ultimate goal of the immigrants sociocultural and language adaptation into an alien socio-cultural environment is offered to be called 'secondary identity formation'. This article highlights only one of linguistic aspects of this process namely the manifestation of various verbal markers in the spontaneous speech of immigrants to the Russian Federation which reflects various stages of the sociocultural and language adaptation of foreigners or in other words the approximation to the ultimate formation of the secondary identity.