Change of passport

The main document issued by the state to verify the identity of any citizen of the Russian Federation on its entire vast territory is primarily a passport. Everyone who lives in Russia must have it, and has already reached the age of fourteen, although a passport can be obtained before reaching the specified age.

Such procedure as the replacement of the passport is carried out in the following necessary cases:

- when the citizen turns twenty years old;

- when he reaches the age of forty-five:

- if the name, patronymic or surname, as well as the date of birth or his place of residence, change legally:

- with a properly certified sex change;

- with further inability to use this document due to its loss, damage, deterioration, etc .;

- if an error or inaccuracy is found in the entry made in the passport;

- with a cardinal change in the appearance of its owner.

The passport is replaced by the territorial agency of the migration service at the place of stay, residence or at the address of the citizen in the order that is determined by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Documents and photos are handed over within thirty days from the moment when the basis for replacement has come.

Replacement of the passport, documents for which have already been submitted to the relevant authorities, is carried out within a ten-day period provided that it is issued at the place of residence or if the previous one, the lost one, was received in the same unit.

Only after providing the relevant documents is the passport is replaced:

1. application for replacement, written in the form No. 1P;

2. two photographs taken in the appropriate format;

3. documents on the basis of which the Russian passport must be replaced:

- for citizens who have reached 20 or 45 years of age - a passport that must be changed;

- for citizens who have changed their data in the manner prescribed by law - a passport to be changed, a certificate confirming the name change, a new birth certificate, a certificate of marriage registration;

- for citizens who change their passports due to the impossibility of their further use or due to changes in their appearance - the document to be replaced

4. all necessary documents on the basis of which the relevant notes in this document will be marked - a military ticket, as well as a certificate of marriage registration, of birth (for children who have not yet reached the age of fourteen, a certificate of divorce, certificates confirming the registration of a citizen by The specified address;

5. receipt of the fee.

According to the Tax Code, the fee is 500 rubles.

If the citizen expresses a wish, then for a period during which the passport will be replaced, he will be issued a temporary certificate or a certificate stating that all the documents for the new passport have been handed over to him.

In the event that a citizen has not submitted a full package of documents to replace a passport or his photos do not meet the established standards, he is invited to change them or provide missing information.

A citizen who permanently resides outside the Russian Federation and has arrived to a place of residence in Russia can obtain a new passport on the basis of the document that certifies that he is a citizen of the Russian Federation outside our country, with the obligatory presence in them of an appropriate note on de-registration In the appropriate diplomatic or consular representation of their state.

Those persons who do not have an appropriate registration at their place of residence or residence have the opportunity to replace the passport with a regional visa office located at the place of their actual residence.