Russian legislation provides for the initial receipt of a passport after a citizen of the Russian Federation reaches the age of 14 years. The very next day after the teenager’s fourteenth birthday, he needs to attend to submitting certain documents to the migration service in order to be issued an identity passport.
The application period for obtaining a passport is 1 month , otherwise parents previously had to pay a fine in the amount of 1,500 to 2,500 rubles. The child must apply for a passport independently upon reaching 14 years of age, so the parent will be fined under clause 1 of Art. 19.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation is impossible, and a child at this age is not yet subject to administrative liability by virtue of Article 2.3. Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (he is not yet 16 years old). Therefore, no one can be fined.
Passport documents
In order to obtain a Russian passport, you must first collect a special package of documents. It is not that big, but some of them may be difficult to provide.
- Birth certificate . If for some reason it is lost, you need to contact the civil registry office at the place of issue and obtain a duplicate.
- Document confirming Russian citizenship . Sometimes problems arise with obtaining it. For some time now, a mark indicating Russian citizenship has been placed on the back of the birth certificate. Some people have a special insert about citizenship status on their birth certificate. In other cases, citizenship will need to be confirmed. To do this, parents or legal representatives will need to submit an application to the migration service at their place of residence to obtain citizenship for the child. To do this, you will need one of the following documents: passports of the teenager’s parents (they must be citizens of the Russian Federation and the child (applicant) must be included in their documents)
- information about registration at the place of residence (in regions in Russia)
- foreign passport of a teenager.
- image of the face exclusively from the front, shoulders turned forward
Sometimes the Federal Migration Service refuses to issue a passport in the absence of registration. This is illegal, since the issuance of a passport is not made dependent on the citizen’s registration. Such a refusal should be appealed to a higher office of the Federal Migration Service. If this does not help, the issue must be resolved in court.
This is a standard list of documents. Sometimes specialists from migration departments may request additional documents to confirm a fact (see also obtaining a new type of international passport).
Visiting the Ministry of Internal Affairs and submitting an application for passport production
After confirmation of registration of the request, you can go to the department on the appointed day.
Please note that if an employee is busy, the appointment time may shift 30 minutes ahead of the desired time. However, if you are more than 10 minutes late, you will have to wait in the general queue.
At the MFC or the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where a passport will be issued, a 14-year-old child needs to take several documents with him, namely:
- birth certificate;
- 2 color photos 3.5*4.5 cm;
- a receipt for payment of the state duty (optional when paying through the State Services portal).
At the department, you will need to go to the terminal, enter the PIN code that was assigned to your application and receive an electronic queue coupon . After being called by an employee, he will accept documents from the 14-year-old and set a date for issuing a passport.
Features of obtaining a passport at 14 years old
Receiving a passport for the first time by a citizen of the Russian Federation has several features in contrast to its replacement or re-issuance.
- Documents must be submitted to the migration service within 30 days from the date the applicant turns 14 years old.
- If the deadline for applying for a passport for the first time has been missed, and its recipient is already fifteen, sixteen or more years old, then the procedure for issuing it and the list of documents are the same as indicated above. Only in the application form you need to indicate that it is being obtained “for the first time”, and not in connection with “reaching the age of fourteen”, and if the child is already 16 years old, then he can be brought to administrative responsibility - a fine of 1500-2500 rubles.
- When issuing a Russian passport for the first time, the procedure for confirming Russian citizenship is mandatory. We have listed the necessary documents for this above.
Obtaining a passport for a healthy, capable teenager by proxy is not allowed. The child must contact the migration service in person.
How to obtain a Russian passport upon reaching 14 years of age
The procedure for obtaining a passport is standard and does not contain any special nuances, since this document is being obtained for the first time. The main document that is needed first is the child’s birth certificate. But first things first. To complete an application for a passport through State Services, you must make sure that this service is available for your region. To do this, go to the service categories and look for the Passports, registration, visas block.
Click on Passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation and go to the list of electronic services.
We choose Obtaining a passport upon reaching the age of 14 and carefully look at the conditions for the provision of this service.
As you can see from the screenshot, obtaining a passport is not a free service; you must pay a state fee of 300 rubles. But first you need to select a department and make an appointment there. Click on the appropriate button and go to the selection window.
Then you need to fill out a form indicating all the data of the person for whom the passport is issued and upload his photo. After filling out the form, the application should be sent for consideration to the previously selected FMS service.
- Public services personal account - log in to the site using your login and password
After reviewing your application, you will receive a notification on the Gosuslgi website, which will indicate the place and time when you will be expected at the FMS to receive your passport. Be sure to take all original documents with you, the list is given below:
- Application for a passport (which was filled out on the State Services website)
- Original birth certificate of the child.
- Document of the applicant (your child) confirming that he is a citizen of the Russian Federation
- A document confirming the registration of a child on the territory of the Russian Federation.
- Passport of one of the parents of the person receiving the document. If the applicant does not have parents, a citizenship document issued no earlier than 2003 is required.
- Passport photographs (35x45 mm, color or black and white).
- A document confirming payment of the state fee in the amount of 300 rubles.
The period from registration of a passport to the time of its issuance can take from 10 days, as indicated on the State Services portal, to 2 months. It depends on the location of the organization where you sent the documents.
Where to contact
- Migration Service. An application for a passport is submitted to the territorial division of the Federal Migration Service related to the place of registration (or temporary registration), stay or residence of the applicant. In fact, you can apply to any migration department - they should not refuse to accept your application.
- MFC. You can also submit an application along with the above documents to one of the multifunctional centers for the provision of public services in your city (or other locality). The employees who accepted it will themselves forward the application to the addressee - the migration service, and then issue a completed passport.
When you contact the migration service, you have a better chance of receiving a passport in a shorter time (up to 10 days). MFC employees also transfer the accepted application and documents to the migration department, which slightly increases the processing time for the document.
If, for health reasons, a child cannot independently contact the migration service about issuing a passport for the first time, then a specialist from this service, responsible for accepting documents, can be called to your home. To do this, the child himself or his legal representatives must first fill out an application.
How and where to get a ready-made passport?
Multifunctional centers operate throughout the country. Their goal is to reduce the time for processing various types of documents.
Having started the procedure for obtaining a passport, any citizen can contact the MFC with all documents. The working day at the MFC lasts until 20:00, which is very convenient for workers. In addition, it has an electronic queue. That is, you arrive at a predetermined time. You can receive ready-made documents here by making an appointment through the electronic queue.
Another place where you can get a document is the migration service established under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. By contacting this institution, your child submits an application and documents, just as in the previous case. After the time established by law, you can pick up the finished document.
Important! During the entire procedure, the presence of parents or legal representatives with the child is mandatory.
A child with a musculoskeletal disorder has the right to call an employee to his home address in order to carry out verification activities and subsequently transfer the completed document to the applicant.
Opening hours of the migration service
The work schedule of the migration service on the issue of issuing passports is quite convenient and allows you to apply to them in the evening (when in the majority of organizations the working or school day is already over). You can submit an application twice a month and on a day off - Saturday.
| Business hours | |
| MONDAY | from 9-00 to 15-00 (day off after working Saturday) |
| TUESDAY | from 15-00 to 20-00 hours |
| WEDNESDAY | from 9-00 to 13-00 hours |
| THURSDAY | from 15-00 to 20-00 hours |
| FRIDAY | from 9-00 to 15-00 hours |
| SATURDAY | from 8-00 to 13-00 (every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month, exception: holidays) |
| SUNDAY | Day off |
For convenience and speed of application, you can sign up for the electronic queue in advance on the official website of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation or on the Unified Portal of Public Services and arrive at the appointed time. Then you won’t have to wait in a live queue in the corridor.
Receipt times
The time frame for obtaining a passport is limited and depends on whether the applicant has permanent registration in the region to which the FMS department to which the documents were submitted belongs.
- No more than 10 days - this is the period for issuing a passport if its recipient has permanent registration at the place of residence in the corresponding region.
- No more than 2 months - the period for issuing a passport if the application and documents were submitted not at the place of address registration, but at the place of residence, stay, registration for a certain time, simply at the place of application. The same period is provided if the applicant does not have registration at the place of residence in the vastness of the Russian Federation at all.
After accepting the application and documents for obtaining a passport at the age of 14, the citizen is given a special receipt about this. At his request, migration service specialists can issue a temporary certificate of a citizen of the Russian Federation. This will require another (third) photo. When issuing a passport, this certificate will need to be returned to the FMS employee (see what to do to restore a Russian passport if it is lost and how to include a child under 14 years old in a Russian passport).
Further process of obtaining a passport
So, after making an appointment, you need to come to the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia at the appointed place. Since parents often help their child at the age of 14 obtain a passport through State Services, they must also come to the appointment.
If less than 30 days have passed since your 14th birthday, you can submit an application at one of the Multifunctional Centers (MFC “My Documents”). If more than 30 days have passed, you can contact the Ministry of Internal Affairs only. To apply, you will need the following documents:
- child's birth certificate;
- two photographs measuring 3.5x4.5 cm, color or black and white.
When submitting documents, you will need to fill out an application for a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation in two copies. Using it, you can then get the document itself. After submitting documents and filling out all the necessary forms, the employee tells you where and when you can get your passport. If you wish, during registration you can also apply for registration to save time.
If you apply for a passport at the age of 14 through State Services, the production process takes about 10 days (at your place of residence). The State Services website states that when registering at a place other than your place of residence, the process takes up to 30 days, but do not be afraid: usually everything happens much faster, it takes about two weeks.
After completing all these stages, you can pick up the document. To do this, you need to come to the specified department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with an application for obtaining a document, which you filled out earlier. It is not necessary to come on the specified day: you can pick up your passport a little later than the appointed time.
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When you receive your passport, you will need to sign it. Therefore, it is worth taking care in advance about how it will look.
The child can pick up his document independently; the presence of a parent or guardian is no longer required.
After receiving your passport, it would be a good idea to create your own verified account on the State Services website: using it you can conveniently make an appointment with a clinic and other organizations.
Today, most departments of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs send applicants to make an appointment via the Internet. Let us consider in detail the process of obtaining a passport at the age of 14 through government services. It is important to understand that the child will not be able to draw up his first document without his parents.
Therefore, you will need to go to the department in a cheerful company, accompanied by a legal representative. Moreover, you need to visit the organization 2 times - at the time of submitting the application and at the time of issue.
Passport via the Internet
Not long ago, Russian citizens had the opportunity to obtain a passport using the Internet. This will not save the applicant from collecting and submitting the necessary package of documents, but will allow him not to go to the migration service department once again, but to resolve all issues while sitting at home at the computer. To understand how to get a passport for a child aged 14 via the Internet, you need to:
- Register on the Unified Government Services Portal at: www.gosuslugi.ru.
- After completing a simple procedure and receiving an access code, you will have your own “Personal Account”.
- Through it you need to go to the “Electronic Services” , then – “Federal Services”
- In this list, select “Issue or replacement of an internal passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.”
First, confirmation of consent to the processing of personal data will be required, after which you can choose the basis for issuing a passport. In our case, this is reaching the age of fourteen (or issuing a passport for the first time).
The computer will ask you to fill in all the applicant’s personal data one by one (full name, date and place of birth, citizenship, registration or residence address, information about parents, spouse, children). It will be necessary to upload a personal photo, observing a number of requirements indicated above and additionally:
- it must be in JPEG or JPEG200 format
- resolution no less than 600 DPI
- color depth of a black-and-white image is no less than 8 bits, color depth is no less than 24 bits
- the background is only white.
The built-in editor simply will not accept an image that does not meet the specified requirements. When all personal information has been filled out and the photo has been uploaded, click the “Submit Application” box.
The processing time for an electronic application is the same as for a regular one: 10 days - if there is registration of residence, 2 months - in all other cases. Information about the stage of consideration of the application will be sent to your email. If insufficient information is provided or for any other reason, the application may be returned and will need to be corrected.
A positive result will be an e-mail with an invitation to the migration service unit at the appointed time to receive a passport. You must take the originals of the above documents with you.
Instructions on how to obtain a passport for a 14-year-old child through State Services
To register a child for a passport, a guardian or parent must have an account. Up to 14 years of age, you can register your favorite child on the portal, but only using a simplified account, which does not make it possible to apply for admission to the MFD.
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To get a passport for a fourteen-year-old child, the applicant will need to go through the following steps step by step:
- We log in to the site and go to the services section, scrolling through the page to the corresponding icon and selecting the “citizen’s passport” item.
- Next, from all the variety of electronic services, we follow the link “obtaining a passport at 14 years old.” On the State Services portal you can shorten this path and immediately follow the link https://www.gosuslugi.ru/10052/9
- After these manipulations, the applicant will find himself on this page, where instructions and a complete algorithm of actions for completing the document are given. Let's highlight the main points: the presence of parents is mandatory, you need to pay a state fee before visiting, you can come to the department at any address, but if you do this not at your place of registration, the processing will be delayed for 30 days, instead of the required 10 days.
- After clicking the button, you can sign up to receive a passport for a child who is 14 years old. To do this, the applicant, represented by a parent, must check his data in the first paragraph. Please note that you do not need to change your personal information to that of your son or daughter.
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- Now select the address of the department or MFC.
- After selecting it, the system will provide all available dates and times for making an appointment. After you have selected a suitable day, State Services will ask you to confirm your choice, after which the application will be registered.
- After this, a notification with an invitation will appear in the portal feed, which will contain a PIN code. Copy it, you will need it when contacting the issuing department.
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Detecting an error in a new passport
- When receiving your passport, you must carefully check all the details for errors and inaccuracies, and also check that the photo matches.
- If such facts are revealed, then the passport must be changed, since in the future there may be problems in various life situations.
- You must apply for a replacement passport within 30 days from the date of discovery.
- The replacement procedure is the same as upon receipt (even if errors are identified at the time the passport is issued by a FMS employee).
The specifics of the passport replacement procedure are as follows:
- the statement in clause 9 indicates the reason for the replacement. For example, “the last name is spelled incorrectly.” If there are many inaccuracies, they are also reflected in paragraph 18 of the statement.
- state duty is not paid;
- a passport with errors is submitted to the Federal Migration Service.
Advice: to be on the safe side when receiving a passport, you should take two photographs with you. And if the passport has defects, then, without wasting time, you can submit documents for its replacement there.
