Is a passport valid without registration?

In the early 1990s, Russia abolished a legacy of the Soviet past - registration in the passport, which had existed in the country for more than 70 years. This was received enthusiastically by Russians as a rejection of the encroachment on freedom of movement. But practice has shown that society is not yet ready for such a radical update, especially in conditions of social payments, medical care and other benefits being linked to registration. Registration was replaced by registration (although people continue to stubbornly call it registration) with a gradual transformation of its permissive nature into a notification one.

The most important document of a Russian citizen is a Russian passport.

The Russian passport is the main identification document in the Russian Federation. The Government of the Russian Federation, by its resolution No. 828 dated July 8, 1997, obliges all Russian citizens aged 14 years or more who reside in the country to have a Russian passport.

The document is a small book of 20 pages. The dark red cover is embossed with the coat of arms of the Russian Federation and the inscriptions:

• above the coat of arms - “Russian Federation”;
• under the coat of arms - “Passport”.

The document contains, in addition to the number, series, date of issue and name of the authority that issued it, the owner’s personal data: full name, gender, birth information and other data, including place of residence, military registration, etc.

A single sample document has been adopted for all subjects of the Federation; The republics are entitled to supplement it with an insert, which is agreed upon with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Heraldic Council of the Russian Federation and duplicates the passport data in the national language. The document is issued when citizens reach 14 years of age, and its replacement is provided at 20 and 45 years of age.

We recommend that you learn more about the procedure for obtaining and replacing a Russian passport.

How to obtain temporary registration at the place of residence for a citizen without permanent registration

• if the area of ​​the housing does not allow one more tenant to be registered in it;
• when a citizen is deported during his previous visit to the country;
• incomplete package of documents provided to the Federal Migration Service for temporary registration;
• refusal is provided in writing. You can appeal the refusal to the FMS or through the court.

1. When hiring, any employer will give preference to a citizen with permanent registration. The more reputable the company, the higher the position, the higher the financial responsibility, the less likely it is to get a job with temporary registration.
2. Everyone wants to entrust a responsible post or material assets to a reliable person who can be found at a specific address at any time.
3. To receive full medical care, you must purchase a medical insurance policy, and this requires permanent registration. A medical insurance will also be needed when enrolling children in kindergarten or school. In addition, none of us are immune from accidents.
4. It is almost impossible to get a loan with this type of registration, and if any microcredit organization does this, the interest rates will be extortionate. This means that not only will it be impossible to use consumer lending, but microloans will also be unavailable.
5. If you want to purchase an apartment with a mortgage, then if you have permanent registration, you can count on lower interest rates.
6. It is impossible to purchase and register a car without permanent registration.
7. It will be impossible to obtain a passport and a number of certificates.

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There is no registration in the passport: what the law says

Many citizens, including foreigners who wish to live in Russia for any reason, are wondering whether registration in the passport is required and, if so, how long one can legally live without it.

First of all, it is necessary to determine what Russian legislation says about this. The main regulations that citizens or stateless persons need to rely on or navigate in matters related to registration and passport regime are:

• Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 232 of March 13, 1997;
• Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 828 of 07/08/1997 (“Regulations on the Passport of the Russian Federation”);
• Administrative regulations on the issuance and replacement of passports (annex to the order of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation No. 391 of November 30, 2012);
• Administrative regulations on registration of Russian citizens (appendix to FMS order No. 288 of September 11, 2012);
• Law of the Russian Federation No. 5242-I of June 25, 1993 on freedom of movement, choice of place of residence in the Russian Federation;
• Rules for registration of citizens of the Russian Federation at the place of residence and stay (Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 713 of July 17, 1995);
• Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (Article 19.15.1).

It is obvious that citizens of the Russian Federation must register at their place of residence or stay, and the presence of individuals without registration is punishable by an administrative fine of 2 to 3 thousand rubles. (in Moscow and St. Petersburg - from 3 to 5 thousand rubles).

Art. 3 of Law No. 5242-I stipulates that the lack of registration cannot become a reason for the loss of the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation. Clause 26.4 of the regulations requires that applicants who apply for a passport be requested to confirm their registration at the place of residence (with the clause “if any”).

There is some duality: citizens are required to have registration, but on the other hand, it may not exist. The question of whether a passport is valid without registration worries many.

The realities of life are full of various conflicts that you should navigate well: different periods are allocated for the registration of different categories of Russian citizens, not to mention stateless persons or foreigners who live in the Russian Federation. In what cases can registration be missing?

How long can you live without registration at your new place of residence?

The sale of an apartment or your own house means the termination of the rights to use them of the previous owner and his family (Article 292 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). This involves deregistering them. The legislation does not establish within what time frame this should take place; therefore, the procedure can take a long time.

Therefore, a practice has developed when a clause (with signatures of both parties) is included in the purchase and sale agreement on the timing of the removal from the apartment of the previous owner and his family members. If there are minor children in the family, then the situation with their discharge is different: permission from the guardianship and trusteeship authorities to sell an apartment if there are children registered in it without providing them with a new place of residence in compliance with all standards (sanitary and other) cannot be obtained. Therefore, the issue of new registration of children must be resolved before the sale of housing.

A period of three days has been established for consideration of an application for deregistration of the former owner of the apartment. After discharge, you must register at your new place of residence within a week. Before the expiration of the 7-day period, no penalties can be imposed.

How long after discharge do you need to register at your new place of residence?

The legislation clearly establishes the time frame within which it is necessary to register - no more than seven days from the date of arrival at the new place of residence. Registration authorities must review the submitted documents and register the applicant within three days.

In the event that the locality does not change, the countdown begins from the moment of deregistration. In other cases, in order to prove to migration authorities that the allotted deadlines for registration have not been exceeded, you need to have travel documents with you, as well as confirmation of residence rights (ownership or lease).

Moving to a new place of residence in another city

When changing place of residence or moving to another city for permanent residence, the algorithm of actions is similar: registration in the new place must occur within the same time frame, the applicant must provide the same documents to the registration authority (including travel tickets, if necessary, confirm the date of arrival).

The optimal solution for registration in another city would be automatic deregistration upon registration at a new place of residence.

To do this, you need to have an agreement with the new owner of the former apartment. While in another city, you should:

• Appear at the territorial registration authority with a passport and an extract from the Unified State Register of Registered Registration Registers for the right to own an apartment, a purchase and sale agreement or a rental agreement. In the latter case, the presence of all adult participants in the transaction is necessary;
• submit a completed application with a request to register at the specified address, documents for real estate and a tear-off coupon for deregistration from the previous place of residence, consent of the Property Management Department (if registering in municipal housing not with close relatives);
• get a temporary certificate instead of a passport (valid for 30 days) and wait for the results;

After a request for an extract has been sent, the procedures for its consideration and decision have been made, the applicant will be sent a written notification that the extract and registration are ready. After this, you need to go and exchange your temporary ID for a passport with registration.

Periods of registration at the place of stay

Russian citizens who live outside their place of permanent residence for more than 90 days must register at their place of residence (without deregistration).

Foreigners who come to the Russian Federation for one reason or another also need to register at their address. In accordance with the Law of the Russian Federation No. 109-FZ and the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 9 of January 15, 2007, foreigners who have received a residence permit or issued a visa must register their residence within seven days.

It is also advisable for CIS citizens (for example, from Ukraine) who have the right to visa-free entry into Russia and received a migration card at the entrance to register within 7 days (although they can stay in the Russian Federation for 90 days without registration), apply for a temporary residence permit and After that, register at your place of residence.

Individual cases: birth of a child and discharge “to nowhere”

In the event that a child is born to citizens registered at the place of residence, after receiving his birth certificate, he can be registered at the same address as the parents (the permission of the landlord or other residents in this case is not necessary). This will give the child the opportunity to apply for social programs, a queue for kindergarten, etc. The deadlines remain the same.

Sometimes in practice there are statements “to nowhere”. A citizen is selling an apartment, but he will have his own home in a year or two. In this case, he writes a personal application to be discharged from his old address, and will live with relatives, friends or acquaintances.

A number of categories - missing persons, deceased citizens, as well as those who are serving in the Armed Forces, serving a sentence or have lost the right to reside at a given address, also fall into this category.

How long can you live without registration in your passport without breaking the law?

Residence without a permanent residence stamp in the passport will be considered legal if the seven-day period for submitting the registration application and documents is not exceeded. After submitting an application, it can be reviewed from three to eight days (excluding weekends and holidays).

If you move to another city, this period may be increased:

• at the time of moving from the place of previous residence;
• while waiting for a response to a request from the registration authority from the place of previous residence. The wait can last from several days to a month, and the applicant will use a temporary certificate.

Thus, the applicant can live without a residence permit without violating the law for 8 to 30 days or more, depending on the circumstances.

If there is a confirmed valid reason (purchase of housing - sales contract, business trip - travel certificate, hospital treatment - certificate), this period can be extended.

As for the period of registration at the place of stay, it is 90 days. A situation is possible when a citizen can move to another place on the 89th day and live there for another 89 days without registration, and so on.

How long can you live without registration?

In accordance with clause 5 of the Law of the Russian Federation of June 25, 1993 No. 5242-1 “On the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to freedom of movement, choice of place of stay and residence within the Russian Federation,” registration of a citizen of the Russian Federation at the place of residence is carried out within a period not exceeding 90 days from the date of arrival of the citizen in the residential premises

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A citizen of the Russian Federation who has changed his place of residence is obliged no later than seven days from the date of arrival at his new place of residence

contact the person responsible for receiving and transmitting documents to the registration authorities for registration and deregistration of citizens of the Russian Federation at the place of stay and at the place of residence within the Russian Federation.

That is, if a person is deregistered at his place of residence

, he is obliged to contact the accounting authorities within 7 days to deregister and subsequently register at a new location.

If a citizen does not change his permanent registration, but simply arrived in a region different from his place of permanent registration, then he is obliged to register at his place of residence within 90 days.

There is nowhere to register: how possible is a full life in this case?

To understand why registration in a passport is needed, it will be enough just to name a few reasons why a person’s life without registration can turn into complete hell, and solving simple everyday problems into pressing and intractable problems.

Restrictions on obtaining credits and loans

In order to be able to obtain a loan or credit from a bank, permanent registration is required. Many banks may additionally require borrowers to have permanent residence in the region where the bank itself is located.

Registration at the place of residence (temporary) will allow you to take out a loan, provided that your passport contains a stamp indicating permanent registration in another region. If this is not the case, then at best the loan will be issued for a period that will not exceed the duration of the temporary registration.

In this case, there is a way out for Sberbank clients who participate in salary projects and pensioners who receive payments on cards. Such categories can receive a consumer loan without a time limit.

It should be noted that credit restrictions are not the worst thing that can happen if you don’t have a registration date in your passport.

Lack of access to social programs, services and paperwork

Particularly serious consequences in the absence of registration in the passport will be felt when it is necessary to apply for social benefits or obtain the necessary document. Practice shows that without registration in the passport it will be impossible to:

• apply for medical services (we are not talking about emergency medical care), register for medical services at a local clinic, obtain a health insurance policy;
• issue SNILS;
• register with the tax office;
• get a well-paid job;
• obtain a driver's license;
• register the car;
• apply for a pension;
• receive social benefits;
• register your child for kindergarten or school.

In addition, we should not forget that a meeting with law enforcement officials may result in a fine for living without registration.

Registration procedure

The procedure for permanent or temporary registration in the passport departments of the Main Directorate for Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is practically the same. For permanent registration, a special mark is placed in the citizen’s passport on page No. 5, and for temporary registration, a certificate is issued on a standard form. For any type of housing registration, you must collect a package of papers that includes the following documents:

• passport of a Russian citizen with all necessary records and stamps;
• a completed application on government-issued form;
• documents confirming ownership of housing (for owners);
• permission from the owner of the property for temporary or permanent registration;
• various certificates from the BTI and housing and communal services.

Many documents on the list require notarization. You can register at the passport offices of the GUVM during a personal visit, through an official representative of the housing and communal services, or using the services of multifunctional centers. Registration in Moscow for citizens of the Russian Federation does not differ from the generally accepted procedure throughout the Russian Federation. The law is the same for any municipality.

What is permanent and temporary registration?

Permanent registration (in everyday life, residents of Russia, out of habit, call it propiska) means registration at a person’s place of permanent residence. The presence of such registration is evidenced by a special stamp in the civil passport.

When a citizen is forced to travel outside his region to another and plans to stay there for more than three months, he should register at his location.

This registration is called registration at the place of residence or temporary.

Answering the question whether a mark is placed in the passport during temporary registration, it should be said that in this case no stamps are placed in the passport, but a paper temporary passport supplement is issued. The permanent registration stamp is retained.

Why is registration required?

Why do you need registration? Registration with passport offices is necessary to control population flows and respect human rights, which are defined by the legislation of the Russian Federation. Below are various options for registration and the answer to the question: “In what cases is temporary registration necessary?”

• In passport. The stamp in the passport indicates the person’s permanent place of residence. It reflects the main stages of the life of a citizen of the Russian Federation. A passport without registration deprives people of many necessary services that government and commercial structures provide to the population.

• In another city. When is registration required at a person’s place of temporary residence? The answer to this question can be found in the law on freedom of movement. Only after forty stays in a certain area for more than 3 months, a citizen of the Russian Federation is obliged to register temporarily with the passport office of the local department of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

• To a minor child. According to the law, it is not necessary to register a minor citizen at the place of residence, but it is better to go through such a procedure. Simply, without a stamp in the passport or a certificate, the child will not be able to fully use the services of government agencies.
• Newborn. Registration of a newborn at the place of residence is necessary in any case, although the procedure is not mandatory. Without a certificate, it is almost impossible to enroll a child in a kindergarten or school, or to obtain a compulsory health insurance policy.

Is registration required to obtain Russian citizenship? Needed. In this case, the person is registered temporarily with a permanent extension of the deadline.

What is the procedure for obtaining permanent and temporary registration?

The procedure for registration and deregistration is developed in detail in the relevant regulations and rules. The algorithm of actions if it is necessary to put a stamp in the passport about registration at the place of residence is as follows:

• leave your previous place of residence. To do this, you need to contact the registration authority where the previous registration took place, with a statement of intention to change your place of permanent residence and hand over your passport with the stamp of your old registration;
• three days later, go back to the department, get a passport with a note about deregistration and a departure sheet;
• appear at the registration authority at your new residence address. Before stamping a residence permit in a passport, civil servants must obtain a passport, departure sheet, completed forms and other documents from the applicant. The applicant is informed of the date when it will be possible to pick up the passport with a new stamp.

The procedure for obtaining temporary registration is in many ways similar, but also has serious differences:

• removal from permanent registration is not necessary - the stamp in the passport is not canceled;
• no departure sheet required;
• the period for verifying submitted data may increase from three to eight days;
• in hotels, houses for visitors, campsites, tourist centers and similar institutions, registration is carried out by the administration immediately upon the arrival of the visitor;
• the registration period is established by agreement with the tenant (in the state fund and municipal buildings) or the owner of the property;
• The temporary registration stamp is not affixed to the passport. The applicant receives a paper certificate of temporary registration.

In both the first and second cases, this service is provided free of charge and no state duty is paid.

It is up to you personally to decide what to do if there is no registration in your passport. The registration procedure, as a rule, does not cause any particular difficulties (if you have the necessary package of documents).

What documents may a citizen of the Russian Federation need when applying for registration?

The list of documents required for registration is given in the Administrative Regulations.

To register at your place of stay you must provide:

• passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation;
• arrival sheet;

  

• statement according to f. No. 1;

  
  The application must be signed by the applicant and the owner/occupier;

• rental agreement, owner’s consent to temporary residence and other justifications for the right to temporary residence at this address.

To register at your place of residence you need:

• passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation;
• statement according to f. No. 6

  
  when submitted by mail - Form No. 1 PR;

• documents that give the right to move into a given address: purchase and sale agreement, state registration certificate, move-in warrant, relevant certificates;
• house register (for the private sector);
• Departure sheet (for citizens who have deregistered at their old place of residence).

Citizens under 14 years of age will need a birth certificate instead of a passport. When registering a newborn child, you are additionally required to provide the parents’ marriage certificate and parental passports.

We recommend that you familiarize yourself in more detail with the list of required documents for obtaining a passport.

Where should I go to apply for registration?

To register, you must visit in person or through a legal representative:

• to the territorial department of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation at the citizen’s place of residence;
• to the multifunctional center.

Information about addresses, reception schedules, days off and other information can be obtained on the websites of the MFC and the Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Before your visit, it is advisable to make an appointment online (this will save you from waiting in lines).

Applying for registration online

You can submit an application for registration via the Internet. To do this you need:

• on the GUVM page of the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, indicate “State services of the GUVM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation”;

  

• from the list ;

  

• in the tab that opens, read the information and click “Get this service online”;

  

• on the next page, select service options and the method of submitting an application (electronically), click “Get class=”aligncenter” width=”1300″ height=”699″[/img]

After these operations, you will be redirected to the State Services website. Having entered your personal account, you will need to fill out an application online (including entering passport data, documents that prove the right to reside at the specified address), select a notification method (SMS, email).

After checking the data, a notification will be sent to the specified address about the date and time of the visit to the Main Department of Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for registration.

Penalties for late registration

The size of the penalty directly depends on who exactly it is imposed on. In each case, the amount is determined individually.

At the place of residence

If within 7 days after deregistration a person has not re-registered in a new place, and there is no registration stamp in the passport, the amount of the penalty may vary significantly and depend on the person to whom the sanctions are applied:

• a person who does not have a registration will have to pay from 2,000 to 5,000 rubles;
• an apartment owner who allows a stranger without registration to stay in his home will pay a fine in the amount of 4,000 to 8,000 rubles;
• if an illegal immigrant permanently resides in premises owned by a legal entity, the amount of the fine may rise to 800,000 rubles.

If violations are found in large cities of federal significance (Moscow, St. Petersburg), the amount of the fine increases.

At the place of arrival

If certain deadlines for obtaining temporary registration are violated, fines in the amount of 2,000-3,000 rubles are applied to the person who neglected the rules.

What is your registration?

Registration at the place of residenceRegistration at the place of stay

Newborn baby

If the child has not been registered within 1 month after birth, the parents will have to pay a fine of 2,000 to 2,500 rubles.

Where is the registration stamped in the passport?

The passport is stamped only with registration at the place of residence; registration at the place of residence is reflected in the certificate. The page of the passport with registration (on which the registration stamp will be affixed) is not specifically established by law. For this purpose, the Russian passport has eight pages – from the fifth to the twelfth. When deregistering, a corresponding stamp will be affixed here.

We invite you to learn in more detail about the structure of the Russian passport, the nature of the information entered into it, as well as the contents of the Russian passport.

What to do if there is no registration?

In the absence of permanent registration, you can apply for a temporary

. This will require the consent of the owner of the property in which the citizen intends to “register”.

To register at your place of stay you will need:

1. identification document;
2. application for registration at the place of stay (the form is filled out at a personal appointment);
3. a document that is the basis for temporary residence at the specified address (this may be a rental agreement, social lease, sublease of housing; an application from the person providing housing, or another document);

Submit documents for registration

At your place of residence you can:

1. online, through the portal of government services of the Russian Federation;
2. in the area where the housing is located;
3. at the management company of your home, if it provides passport office services.

Temporary registration is issued

, in addition, in a hotel, sanatorium, holiday home, boarding house, campsite, medical organization, tourist center or other similar institution.

An error was made when registering in your passport: what to do in this case

The situation when registration workers make mistakes when affixing a registration stamp is quite common. In a number of cases, employees of the registration authority stamp the passport “Canceled” and put a new one with the correct data entered.

Another option: the old stamp is crossed out, “Wrong” is entered, and then a new one is affixed.

The problem is that, in accordance with the Administrative Regulations, no corrections can be made to the passport, the “Cancelled” stamp is not provided for it (FMS order No. 339 of December 7, 2007), and the corrections made and extraneous entries make the passport illegitimate. Therefore, in this case, you only need to change your passport. Depending on whose fault the mistake was made, the issue of state duty will be decided.

How to make temporary registration without permanent registration

The existence of the right to temporary registration of a child at the place of residence of one of the parents is legislatively approved. If the marriage is not official, but the father wants to register the child at his residence address, it is necessary to provide a document confirming paternity. This procedure is possible only with the consent of the mother.

Temporary registration is a separate officially certified document form confirming the legal grounds of its owner to reside at a specific address. Unlike permanent registration, temporary registration is not reflected in a citizen’s passport.

Lack of registration in the passport: what to do

The absence of a registration stamp in a passport is not a reason to consider it invalid (sometimes it happens that when exchanging documents, registration was not added to the new passport). A citizen enjoys the same scope of rights and freedoms as others. The administrative regulations clearly state that when receiving a passport, you must provide information about your permanent or temporary place of residence. Therefore, the lack of registration can be considered a violation of this regulation.

At the same time, with temporary registration, a stamp is not affixed to the passport, but a paper certificate is issued (this is about whether a passport can be issued without registration).

A different situation arises when a citizen deregisters and does not obtain a new registration. In this case, he violates the law and may be subject to administrative liability in the form of a fine, so the more correct solution would be to legalize his residence as soon as possible.

Read in more detail about the size of fines and the conditions for their imposition for the lack of registration in the passport.

How can it even happen that a person does not have registration?

If a person does not have a current mark in his passport indicating his place of residence

, his relationship with government mechanisms in some situations becomes significantly more complicated, and in others it stops altogether.

There are actually quite a lot of reasons why a person may be left without registration. A person may voluntarily de-register with the intention of registering elsewhere. However, for some reason (for example, family reasons), I was unable to register at the new place.

Various fraudulent schemes are also rumored

, as a result of which a citizen may lose not only registration, but also his apartment.

Apartments of lonely and elderly people are traditional targets for attackers. The scammers’ scheme of action is usually as follows: elderly and lonely people are taken into confidence and, at the right moment, are asked to sign legal papers that are passed off as an “employment contract” or “an application for humanitarian assistance.” After which the victim ends up on the street or in a nursing home.

Or, for example, another case. A citizen bought an apartment and registered at his place of residence

. However, after some time it turned out that the seller of the apartment was a mentally ill person. Such a deal can be challenged in court, for example, by his heirs. And as a result, a citizen may find himself on the street without an apartment or registration.