Passport for a child under 2 years

Modern parents have increasingly become the need to travel outside the Russian Federation. In this regard, their young children under 2 years of age are required to obtain a passport.

Visa control officers are guided in their work by the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of state registration of citizens when traveling abroad.

Under Articles 20 and 21 of the Federal Law of 15 August 1996, No. 114-FZ, “On the Procedure for Exiting the Russian Federation and Entering the Russian Federation”, a minor citizen of the Russian Federation often leaves the country together with at least one of his parents or guardians. The articles of this law also regulate the departure of a minor citizen without following his parents. In any case, the baby will need a document identifying his identity.

The last edits to this law are dated 01.03.2010 in the form of exit regulations from the territory of the Russian Federation, which necessarily regulate the presence of foreign passports among minors.

This means that the record of the child in the passport of the parents no longer gives the right to leave the state without the child having his own passport. Most of the residents of the Russian Federation travel abroad with the help of travel agencies, whose employees provide full information on the procedure and rules for issuing passports for kids.

The law leaves the choice to parents between old-style passports and a biometric novelty. Let us examine the advantages and disadvantages of both options.

Getting an old passport has many advantages:

• Faster clearance;
• Low cost of release;
• It is not necessary to take a child with you when you register in the FMS;
• Low level of security;
• The validity period is 5 years, during which the child’s face does not undergo significant changes, which makes it possible to avoid comical situations with the discrepancy between the photo in the passport and the child’s appearance throughout the document’s validity period.

When making a biometric passport, please note that:

• The period of registration will not be as fast as in the first version;
• The cost of the document is a more substantial amount;
• When filing a package of documents for registration of a passport to the appropriate authority, the presence of a child is mandatory;
• Multistage protection system;
• The validity period is 10 years.

An old-style passport or a document with biometric tags is a personal priority of each parent. Both documents are equally valid.

international passport for a child under 2 years old can be obtained in different ways.

When choosing this place, you should know the working hours with citizens and at the specified time appear at the reception immediately with a set of documents and a receipt for payment of state duty.

The regulation of actions in this case is similar to the item above and differs from the FMS only by the place of filing of documents.

The advantage of this state institution is the ability to quickly and free of charge make photocopies of the required documents and immediately pay a fee through the terminal for state duty.

It is considered the most convenient way, because allows you to save time on moving to the place of submission of documents - here it happens remotely from any convenient place.

This is a federal resource that provides various legal services to citizens in a simplified manner - those who resort to using it do not know what a queue is. The website of State Services operates around the clock. To work with the site requires prior registration and one-time ID.

Submit a package of documents for registration of the child's passport can personally his parent or legal guardian. At the address the statement is made and attached by all necessary documents.

The absence of one of the parents must be confirmed by an appropriate certificate. If one of them is a citizen of another country, this fact is certified by a certificate of the authorized body of a foreign state with a notarized translation.

The application will require the following documents:

• Application on the form of the established form;
• Questionnaire (links to the form for the old and the new sample);
• Baby's birth certificate;
• Passport of the parent / guardian of the child;
• Passport of the parent / guardian of the child;
• A document certifying guardianship (upon appeal of the guardian);
• A document confirming the citizenship of the child;
• Receipt of payment of state duty;
• Photos of the child 35 * 45, 4 pieces (in the case of submission of documents to the FMS, the photo is taken in the department itself on the same day).

A passport is needed only if the child is 14 years old. Since your child is less than 2 years old and has no passport, we skip this item.

For information on how to fill out a questionnaire for a new generation passport, see the next video.

As mentioned above, all papers are transferred for registration by a parent or legal representative of the child. A passport of a citizen under 2 years old must be received by the same parent or authorized person, and the receipt must be signed by them, as in the initial application in the application / questionnaire.

It is important to know that the reception of documents is considered complete when the employees of the center where the application was addressed will issue the certificate of receipt of documents to the applicant.

It may take from 1 to 4 months to accept a decision on a request for an international passport.

If the decision is positive, the document will be issued to the applicant without the presence of a child under 14 years of age.

As practice shows, the speed of making a positive decision on the issuance of a passport affects the place where the appeal was made.

The size of the state duty held for an old-style international passport is 1,000 rubles for citizens under 14 years old (at the moment when contacting through the GosSlug portal the cost will be 700 rubles with discount) for the new model 1,500 rubles under Article 333.28 of the RF Tax Code.

When paying the state fee, it is necessary to carefully fill in the fields with the applicant's name, i.e. on whom the document is made out.

The order of registration is quite simple. The only thing that can alert or frighten off is the timing of the production of the document. But also here the state regulates the accelerated procedure for processing and issuing a passport if the applicants have a strong reason, such as a serious illness requiring emergency treatment abroad, or the death of a loved one. In any case, when submitting documents with an indication of these reasons, the corresponding certificates will be additionally required.

About what other documents you may need to travel with your child abroad, see the following video.