How to get a foreign passport for a 2-year-old child: which one is better to apply for, how is this done through State Services and how long will it take? YurExpert Online

Even if your little one is very small or is already a teenager, he cannot do without a foreign passport for a tour to foreign countries. The article below contains information:

Do children need a foreign passport?
at what age is it done;
how to apply for a passport for a child;
where to go with papers.

Why does a child need a passport?

The first question is: at what age do children get a foreign passport and for what purpose? Is it possible to order a foreign passport for a child under one year old? The second point is where should I bring documents for obtaining a child’s international passport and what should I prepare?

The “Stamp Book” is issued in order to be able to cross the border of our Motherland and, according to Russian legislation, is an identity card for a citizen visiting another state.

Who is applying?

For a minor child, the application is completed and signed by one of the parents or legal guardian. Of course, in this case it will be necessary to submit documents certifying the relationship or authority of the guardian.

The information required to fill out the form - place of work, address - is also indicated for the parent or legal representative. The parent or guardian also receives the completed passport. On the first page in the column where they usually sign, when issuing the finished document, put a dash. Only after reaching the age of 14, having received a civil passport, will a young citizen be able to apply for a foreign passport and receive it himself.

Required documents

The list of documents for obtaining a passport for a child who is 2 years old or less is as follows:

Do minors need registration to be extradited to a foreigner?

To obtain a foreign passport, a child, like an adult, does not need to have a residence permit at the place of application. There is a possibility that you will be asked to show your registration date. You can find out in two ways:

Look in the house book, where the list of people registered in the apartment is indicated.
There is a stamp on the back of the child's birth certificate. It contains the address and date of registration. Usually, when registering newborns, a Form 8 certificate with a red stamp is issued (photo below), which indicates the residence address of the little citizen.

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It is possible to order in any city where you are staying. The package of papers is absolutely the same as when issued at the place of registration.

At what age does a child need an international passport: legal basis

The situation has become quite common today when parents take their children abroad from a very young age, and therefore they are interested in at what age a foreign passport must be issued for a minor child.

A foreign passport is required for all citizens crossing the border, regardless of their age. However, you need to know that at different ages there are special rules for receiving it.

International passport for a newborn

A document allowing you to cross state borders is necessary even for those who have just recently been born. The registration rules in this case are simple and include the provision of the following documentation:

child's birth certificate and its copy;
originals and copies of passports of the newborn’s legal representatives;
2 biometric photographs of the child measuring 3.5x4.5 cm;
application from legal representatives to provide the newborn with a foreign passport;
document confirming payment of the state duty.

The time frame for issuing a foreign passport for newborn children is often shorter than for adult citizens. Problems can only arise if the child does not live at the place of initial registration.

How to make a document for a child from 1 to 7 years old?

Most parents ask themselves the difficult question of the need to obtain a foreign passport for their child at an early age.

The procedure is simple and does not require a lot of money and time. But this is only possible in cases where official representatives have an old-style international passport. In this case, you must contact the Ministry of Internal Affairs at your place of registration and write a corresponding application.

In a situation where the father and mother have biometric passports, this procedure becomes impossible, and the preparation of the relevant document may take a longer time.

International passport for a child from 7 to 14 years old

In this age group, minor citizens can already leave their country in organized groups, but obtaining a document allowing them to do this legally is mandatory.

If the legal representatives have an old-style document, then one of the parents can enter the child in their passport. Only the presence of this official representative becomes mandatory for the child to cross the border.

If a minor citizen leaves the country with another accompanying person, then a power of attorney for this person, drawn up in a notary office, will be required.

If parents have biometric passports, then it becomes mandatory for their child to obtain only a passport of this type to travel abroad.

How to make a document for a teenager from 14 to 18 years old?

The preparation of this document at this age has its own characteristics:

The state fee for obtaining a passport is paid in full.
In addition to the documents required for younger age groups, a general passport is required, which is issued at the age of 14.

Another distinctive feature is that there is no need to include the child in the parents’ passport to travel abroad, and now obtaining a separate travel document becomes mandatory.

This happens due to the fact that at this age children can travel outside their country to camps and tourist trips without their parents.

What documents are needed to obtain a passport for a child under 14 years of age?

To obtain a child’s international passport, you will need to collect a number of papers, choose the type (new or old), and the registration method.

Papers for a new sample

Information in the application for a new type of passport is entered exclusively online. After submitting, you must wait for notification of acceptance of the application. Next, you need to pay the state fee and come to the department of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the appointed time. After this, you just have to wait for your passport.

You can monitor the readiness of the document in your personal account on the State Services portal. They pick it up at the same branch where they served it. Please note that on the same website you can check the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation for readiness and validity.

When submitting documentation for a new type of identity card, the presence of the child is required.

He will be photographed in a specially equipped room to obtain biometric images. Their special property is that the distance between the pupils is read, and the photograph is laser engraved on the page.

List of documents for the old sample

For this type of document you should contact the FMS office or the MFC.

You will need:

application form;
two photographs measuring 3.5 by 4.5 cm (Color or black and white). If you apply online - a digital photo;
in case of a change of full name - a certificate of name change;
ID card of the representative issuing a foreign passport for a child under 14 years of age;
previous document, if available and valid;
papers confirming the rights of the legal representative;
certificate confirming the child’s citizenship;
paid state duty.

Documents for a foreign passport for children, biometric

List of documentation:

application for a new generation passport for a minor citizen (issued online);
digital photo;
identification card presenting documents for obtaining a child’s passport;
if the full name has been changed, a certificate of name change;
confirmation of the right of representative;
certificate confirming citizenship;
paid state duty;
The previous foreigner, if there is one and is suitable.

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Who has the right to submit documents

If you want to apply for a foreign travel pass for your one-year-old baby, when submitting documents you need to provide proof that you have the right to do such actions.

According to the law, only his parents or guardians can represent the interests of a child in government bodies. Your documents will be accepted if you provide your identification. If the child is adopted, take with you a certificate stating that you adopted the child.

Only parents or guardians have the right to submit documents for the issuance of a child’s passport by presenting an identity document

At the Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you will need to fill out a special application form, in which you should enter the data from your passport. Only a guardian or parent of a minor has the right to fill out this form. It is his personal data, as well as information about work and other things that fit into the questionnaire. Obtaining a completed international passport is also the responsibility of the child’s legal representative. Citizens under 14 years of age do not have the right to sign official documents. In the minor's new passport, a dash is placed instead of the owner's signature.

From September 1, 2021, you can apply for a new type of foreign passport through the MFC of cities with a population of over 50 thousand people. A ready-made document will be issued there.

Photo requirements

They depend on how the application is submitted. See the general photo requirements for a foreign ID card here. When submitting papers through the online service, you will need to send a photo in digital format. Photo characteristics:

format of the sent image - JPEG, PNG, BMP;
size not less than 10 KB and not more than 5 MB;
Digital photo resolution is at least 300 DPI.

You have the right to attach either a color photo or a black and white one. If applying in person, you will need 2 photographs measuring 3.5 cm by 4.5 cm.

Do I need a passport for a small child?

Previously, it was allowed to enter information about minor children in their parents’ passports. This was done quickly, in a week. To register a child, it was enough to write an application and attach a copy of the birth certificate and a photograph.

After a decree adopted by the Government of the Russian Federation in January 2010, children from birth until the age of 14 have the right to receive their own document, according to which they will be able to travel outside the Russian Federation. And although some people still have old-style passports with data on their children, and Russian border guards may not prevent the family from leaving, it is more correct to follow the new rules.

Therefore, you will have to issue your own foreign passport for the baby. We will tell you how best to do this.

Which passport is best for a child under 2 years old?

Two types of foreign passports are issued for Russian citizens: regular and biometric.

The validity of a regular foreign passport is 5 years, and a biometric one, which contains a special chip with encoded information, is issued for 10 years.

If you are going to make a document for a child who has not yet reached 2 years of age, we advise you to issue a regular passport. The fact is that the appearance of babies under one year old changes quickly. The baby grows, facial features are defined, hair grows. A photograph taken in early infancy will soon become irrelevant.

Border guards have the right to refuse entry if they are not sure of the identity of the owner of the passport - your baby. After reaching 2 years of age, appearance does not change so rapidly. Therefore, children who have reached the age of three years and older can already obtain a biometric document.

Another difficulty is to take a clear photograph of the little fidget. Everyone knows how difficult it is to attract the attention of a baby and make him focus his eyes on the camera. Therefore, photographs often turn out to be unclear; the face appears not in full view, but in half a turn. Such photos may not be accepted by employees at the migration service. We advise you to contact a good photographic studio, where they know the requirements for photographs for documents and have the necessary equipment.

Examples of correct and incorrect photographs for documents

Design methods

There are several options for obtaining a passport. Below is a list of them and a brief description - feel free to choose the method that suits you most, the package of documents will be the same (read more about this below) regardless of your choice.

The most convenient way is to obtain a passport for a child under one year old through government services.

This is a federal portal that provides various legal services to citizens in a simplified manner: you no longer need to stand in long lines and waste time on your first visit to the competent government agency. You can submit an application at any time – the State Services website is open 24 hours a day!

Pre-registration is required to use the site. If you have not gone through this procedure before, read our article on this issue: “How to register for government services as an individual.”

After authorization, you should select in the catalog, and in it - the item “Foreign passport”. Next, you should choose one of the 2 allowed passport options. After filling out the electronic application within 2 days, an invitation will appear in your personal account to the department of the Federal Migration Service of Russia at your place of residence to submit a package of documents (you will first need to pay a state fee). You will be able to receive your passport within a month from the date of submitting your documents.

The second option is registration directly at the territorial department of the Federal Migration Service. When choosing this method, you should first clarify the working hours with citizens and show up at the specified time for an appointment immediately with a set of documents (their list can be found below) and a receipt for payment of the state duty. The period for processing the document is the same as in the previous version – 1 month.

Note! Many departments of the migration service operate an electronic queue system, which provides for pre-registration of appointments at a time convenient for applicants.

The third way is to use the services of the Multifunctional Center (MFC). The procedure in this case is similar to that described above and differs only in the place where the application is submitted. To obtain a passport in any of the described options, you should go to the appropriate FMS office.

As for the processing time, a standard one-month period is provided for citizens who apply to the MFC at their place of registration. But when applying to the department of the Multifunctional Center at your actual place of residence, the period may be delayed up to 4 months.

The advantage of this method is the ability to make free photocopies of the required documents and pay the fee through the terminal right on the spot.

Do I need to get a separate passport for my child?

Let's start with the fact that a foreign passport (general civil foreign passport, OPP) is not a citizen’s identity document, but a confirmation of a legitimate stay outside of Russia. Not all countries require a travel visa - you can visit, say, Belarus or Kazakhstan with a Russian passport. It’s another matter if the family plans to vacation in European countries whose authorities require foreign passports.

Do I need a separate passport for a one-year-old child? The law does not have a clear answer to this question. But if you turn to the Administrative Regulations of the FMS dated October 15, 2012 No. 320, you will notice that at passport control when crossing the border they require identification not only from adults, but also from children. In this case, parents can present an “old” passport with entered information about their children.

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The production of a foreign passport is considered a public service and is paid according to tariffs. Cost of the procedure for 2021:

biometric passport for a child under 14 years old – 1,500 rubles;
old-style passports – 1000 rubles.

When paying the state fee, the question may arise: who should I issue a receipt to when receiving a foreign passport for a child? According to the rules, the surname and initials of the newborn, and not the responsible parent, are entered in the “Payer” field.

Some spouses prefer not to apply for a new passport for the child, but to use the one issued for an adult. In this case, it is necessary to know what is needed to include the child in the international passport. Any information can be obtained from the employees of the department for organizing the registration of foreign passports of the Main Directorate for Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.