How to enter a child into the parents’ passport in 2021

Reading time: 4 minute(s) In some situations, an adult may need to prove a relationship with a minor child without providing a birth certificate. This is done very simply, but subject to a certain procedure. First of all, you must first enter the child’s passport into the passport. To some, this procedure will seem insignificant, since the record duplicates the function of other documents, but it is still better to have it. In some cases, it will significantly reduce the time and save you from trouble. [flat_ab id=”1″]

The legislative framework

The entry about the presence of children in the passport is made on the basis of clause 21.1 of Order No. 64 of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation dated March 19, 2008. It indicates the possibility of making it at the request of both parents or one of them (with the consent of the other). The child’s adoptive parent can also put a corresponding stamp in the passport. But this rule does not apply to citizens who, by court decision, are guardians of a minor.

About the internal passport of the Russian Federation

- This is the main identification document, instead of .

During the life of the passport, when its owner turns 20 and 45 years old; if a document has been stolen, damaged or personal data has changed, it can be exchanged or restored.

In some cases . A passport is issued at the department of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation at the place of residence. In addition to personal data about the owner of the document, additional information is included in it, including a note about the presence of children. Not all Russians know whether such a mark is needed today and how to put it.

Why do you need to include children in your passport?

Confirmation of the identity of a young child is carried out on the basis of his birth certificate. True, parents do not always have the habit of taking this paper with them. Such indiscretion can sometimes make it difficult for an adult to prove that a minor is indeed his son or daughter. For example, if the baby suddenly got lost and was then found by strangers in a shopping center or on the street.

It’s very simple to understand why you should include a child in your passport. This will eliminate the need to constantly carry with you a certificate issued by the registry office. Of course, when enrolling in a preschool institution or clinic, you will still have to present it. But sometimes it is enough to show the stamp on your own ID.

Type of passport for a child: which one is better?

To gain access to the unified state portal, you need to carefully study the settings and interface. The main condition is to have an active account on the site.

There is an ordinary and a biometric (new sample) passport. The two documents are different, so you need to understand before jumping to conclusions about the benefits.

A biometric foreigner card is more expensive, so whether it makes sense to issue one for a child under 14 years old is up to parents to decide. At best, you can enter the child into the passport of one of the parents.

Persons from 14 to 18 years old can order an ordinary foreign passport or a biometric one. It is better to draw up a separate document, since at this age the child has the right to move between countries independently (you can read the rules for traveling abroad for a minor child on our website).

New sample foreign passport – biometric

The passport includes the biological data of the person for whom it is issued: a retinal scan, fingerprints.

Its features:

valid for 10 years;
convenience in obtaining visas;
allows you to quickly pass border control;
belongs to only one owner;
small amount of data required;
urgent replacement if there is a discrepancy between the similarities in the photo and in reality.

It is not advisable for a child under 18 years of age to obtain a new type of foreign passport. His appearance changes every year and his parents will need additional finances to renew his passport.

Old style international passport

To issue an old-style foreign identity card for your child, you need to prepare a package of documents.

Advantages of an old-style passport:

expedited registration method;
entering information about parents or guardians;
quick correction of errors if they are detected;
short period of validity (maximum 5 years).

Is this procedure required?

Everyone decides for themselves whether the child needs to be included in the parents’ passport. The legislation here is not clear. Therefore, if a person is interested in whether it is necessary to include his child in the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, then the answer will be negative. This procedure is done solely at will.

What happens if the child is not included in the mother’s passport? In fact, nothing bad should be expected, because this norm is not considered mandatory. The presence of a stamp is, first of all, in the interests of the parents themselves.

Is there a penalty for missing a mark?

Issuing a stamp for minor children is not at all an obligation for parents. Therefore, regulatory documents do not contain any sanctions for violating this rule. The only punishment provided for by administrative legislation is a fine for making entries yourself.

Reference! The amount of administrative penalty for damage to a document is 300 rubles.

If there are young children, then it is better to enter information about them. This procedure takes little time and is absolutely free. But later you can avoid a huge number of problems associated with applying for child benefits, enrolling your son or daughter in kindergarten, etc.

Where to contact

Where to include a child in the parents' passport? First, you should select the MFC or GUVM at the place of official registration or in the city of residence. The father and mother must decide in advance which of them will include the child in the parents’ passport. There are no clear guidelines in the law on this matter. Theoretically, no one forbids making an entry not only in the documents of the mother, but also of the father.

Portal "Government services"

To enter a child into the internal passport of the Russian Federation through “State Services”, you need to go to the special “Personal Information” tab from your account on this website. Find the item, open the online form to fill out. Some time after completion of the procedure, the citizen will receive a notification about the date when he needs to bring documents to the pre-selected department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

GUVM MIA

This method is the simplest and, importantly, faster than through the MFC. It is recommended to choose a branch at the place of official registration of the father or mother. The fact that there is a temporary one does not matter. There is no need to provide a written application. The appeal is registered from the words of both parents upon presentation of the certificate.

How and where to enter information

Below we will try to figure out how to enter information about a child into a Russian passport in 2021 and what is needed for this, what documents will be required. As for the procedure itself, it is not at all complicated; it is enough to follow a certain sequence. If the baby has just been born, then first of all you need to get a birth certificate, otherwise the algorithm is the same.

It was previously said that when a child is entered into a passport, his age should not exceed 14 years, and parents must:

contact the department of the Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
verbally declare the desire to make a note in the document about the baby;
submit the documents required by the procedure.

Migration officials may ask for photocopies of both passports, so it is better to prepare them in advance. It is worth remembering that only documents drawn up in the state language are accepted. If the child's birth certificate is in a foreign language, it will be necessary to provide a notarized translation.

If parents are registered at different addresses, one of them may also be required to provide a registration certificate confirming that the child is not registered at another address. Below we will talk about what is needed to include a child in a passport.

Which authorities should I contact?

Today, with the development of public administration and document management technologies, much of what we knew and were familiar to us has changed, and not everyone knows where to enter the child’s parents in the passport. And if previously this was done by the Civil Registry Office departments simultaneously with the issuance of a birth certificate, now this recording is carried out at the passport office at the place where the baby is registered.

In order to put a mark about children in a passport, it will not take much time, but still, to save time and save energy, it is worth knowing in advance where to go to add a child to the passport: the options will be discussed below.

GUVM MIA

Since April 2021, these functions have been assigned to the Main Directorate for Migration Issues of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. If any questions arise, citizens can get advice through the hotline of the Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This department also has a service that gives citizens the opportunity to remotely submit or complete the necessary documents.

In order to make the necessary entry about children in the passport, you need to personally contact the department of the Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the place of registration of one of the parents. The documents are submitted to a specialist who reviews them, and if all the information is submitted in full, he makes an entry in the “Children” column, which he then certifies with a red seal.

The following information must be indicated in the “Children” column:

last name, first name and patronymic of the child;
date of his birth;
floor.

Registrars are required to make such an entry on the day of the application; their actions to transfer the service to another date or force them to leave the document for several days are unlawful and may be the subject of a judicial appeal.

Multifunctional Center

Multifunctional centers (MFCs) were created to promptly provide government services for processing various documents. MFCs are government agencies that perform the functions of interaction between authorities of a city or all-Russian scale and ordinary people who need such services.

In order to include a child in a parent’s passport through the MFC, you need to collect a package of documents and submit them to a specialist at the center located in your area or region.

After receiving all the necessary information, the data is sent to the department of the Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for processing, in return the center employee issues a receipt about the documents he accepted.

Public Services Portal

This procedure on the State Services portal differs from those described above, and it cannot be called traditional: you will not be able to see the entry in the passport, but upon subsequent registration this information will be available to all services.

Algorithm for entering data about a child:

Go to . Enter your personal information. On the “Personal Information” tab, click on the icon that says “Show all personal information.”
Scroll the personal data form to the end, on the left find the item “Add information about a child”, select it.
In the window that appears, you need to specify basic information about the children.

What documents are needed

Probably, almost all parents know what documents are needed to be included in the child’s passport, but it would not be amiss to provide a list of them.

To carry out the procedure you will need:

Internal passports of the Russian Federation of parents + 2 copies of each.
Baby's birth certificate + 2 copies.
A document confirming the registration of the baby (placed on the back of the birth certificate).
or a certificate confirming paternity (if the marriage is not registered).
Guardians can also enter information about their wards into their passports; to do this, they additionally need to submit documents confirming the right of guardianship.

As you can see from the list, the documents at the passport office for registering a child in a passport are the simplest, so collecting them will not take much time.

Where is the entry?

A stamp in the passport indicating the presence of children is placed by an employee of the Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the presence of the applicant (in case of personal application). The identity document has a special place for recording - pages 16 and 17. At the top of the 17th page of the form is the inscription “Children”. On page 17, continued on page 16, there is a plate where personal data about children is entered: gender, surname, first name, patronymic, date of birth, personal code (not used).

A round red stamp is placed in the “Personal code” column confirming the child’s Russian citizenship. The stamp in the passport about children is placed as many times as the number of minor children the applicants have.

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Procedure for entering data about children

Regardless of which method a citizen chooses (through State Services, MFC, Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), before applying, you must make sure that all the required papers are available. This applies not only to the passport, but also to the birth certificate. The absence of any document will cause refusal.

If the father and mother are married or live together, before adding the child to the parents’ passport in 2021, they both need to appear at the Main Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This will eliminate the need to write a power of attorney on the part of the second parent. [flat_ab id=”3″] It is enough to make a request orally. A passport is provided where the child must be entered, and his birth certificate. Other documents may also be needed. The stamp must be placed on the same day. The registration address of the child itself does not matter. A record is made even about a newborn who has not yet been “registered” anywhere.

Basic information

Domestic legislation does not establish a mandatory requirement to include the baby in the passports of the father and mother. Upon birth, the baby receives citizenship of the country by birth, the confirming factor of which is a certificate. This document establishes the presence of family ties with certain people.

In order to make an entry in your passport, you will need to contact the Federal Migration Service. You should visit the branch at your registered address, but if this is not possible, then at the child’s residence address.

Without the participation of FMS employees, it is prohibited to enter children into a passport without permission. Such a record is invalid, and the violator risks receiving a fine of 300 rubles. Unauthorized actions are equivalent to deliberate damage to a passport. The parent will need to urgently replace the document, and if he does not meet the deadlines established by law, he will face another punishment in the form of a fine.

Parents can enter information about children into their passports until minors reach the age of 14. From now on, they have the right to receive their own passport.

Required documents

Let's list what you need to include your child in the passport:

internal identity card of the mother and/or father.
birth certificate of a minor;
power of attorney from the second parent (if he is absent). It is drawn up in the usual form without the need for notarization.

No other documents are needed to include a child in the Russian Federation passport. The only exceptions are cases when one of the parents changed their last name or other personal data. Then a certificate of this issued by the registry office is additionally presented.

Additional features and nuances

The law does not establish a mandatory requirement for both parents to be present for the procedure. One of the adults has the right to contact the FMS office, providing both his passport and his spouse’s document. A department employee will make entries in both passports in the presence of the parent.

If it was discovered that the FMS employee did not confirm the entry with a signature and seal, then the parents will need to contact the department again to correct this error. If a defect was discovered when providing documents, for example, at the airport, then the controller may ask to see additional certificates and papers that act as a confirming factor of the existence of a family relationship between parents and child.

Is it possible to register children yourself?

Legal ignorance of a certain part of citizens often leads to extremely unpleasant incidents that could have been avoided if information about the registration procedure had been available. For example, sometimes parents ask whether they can enter their child into their passport themselves? The answer to this question will always be negative. [flat_ab id=”4″] Only authorized employees of various departments can put any marks on the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation. If a person decides to write off his full name on his own. your child, this will cause the document to be declared invalid.

Procedure for receiving the service

In order to use the service, you will have to visit the MFC closest to your home and join the electronic queue. Take a coupon with a number from the terminal. The number indicated on your coupon will be displayed on the electronic display, then go to a specialist.

If you don’t want to waste time in line, call the hotline number. A specialist will answer you and tell you the date and time of the visit to the nearest MFC to your home. also make an online appointment at the center through.

Step 1: Preparatory work

Before contacting the center, you must collect the following documents:

Passports of both parents. If a mother is raising a child alone, only her ID is sufficient.
Child's birth certificate. In some cases, it is permissible to replace it with a birth certificate issued by the maternity hospital.
Statement. It can be filled out either by hand or printed on a computer.

Important! Some centers also require copies of the provided papers. However, the applicant should be aware that if their application is necessary, employees have the opportunity to photocopy any document themselves. The technical equipment of the centers allows this to be done without restrictions and free of charge.

Step 2: Contact the center

Having collected the necessary papers, you can select the nearest MFC to coordinate a visit. It is important to know that you can come to the “My Documents” service without an appointment. However, in this case, you will need to take a coupon at the terminal (select the service “Issue and replacement of a Russian passport”) and spend some time waiting for your turn.

If you make an appointment in advance, you will not have to wait - you will be assigned a specific time for your visit. You can make an appointment either by calling the Hotline or via the Internet on the website of the selected center.

Step 3: Submitting documents

After waiting for your turn (when the number indicated on the coupon appears on the monitor) or arriving at a certain time, you must give the collected papers to the center employee. In return, he will issue a receipt of their receipt, which, among other things, will indicate the application number and the date when it will be possible to receive the updated passport back.

Required documents

Before visiting the MFC you will need to prepare:

passports and their photocopies of both parents;
child's birth certificate with copies.

The above package of papers is submitted to the multifunctional center along with an application for a request to make an entry in the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.

Step 4: Getting the result

In order to pick up a passport with the marks included in it, you need to go to the same MFC no earlier than the day specified in the receipt. In addition, you can check readiness on the website of the multifunctional center by entering the request number. Have the above receipt with you.

Reasons for refusal

Sometimes a request to mark a child is not granted due to the lack of some of the necessary papers. In addition, this happens if the minor does not have the right to Russian citizenship.

In the first situation, the problem is solved by providing the entire package of documents. If an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs refuses to register a child for an unreasonable reason, in the opinion of the parents, then to resolve the issue, you can file a complaint with the leadership of the local Main Directorate for Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or file a statement of claim in court.

Nuances when obtaining citizenship

If one of the parents is a citizen of the Russian Federation and the other is a stateless person, the child in this case acquires the status of a citizen of the Russian Federation.
If one of the parents or both parents are citizens of other states, the decisive factor is the place of birth. A child born on the territory of the Russian Federation receives a preferential right to obtain Russian citizenship by birth.
If a child is on the territory of the Russian Federation, and it is not possible to determine his possible parents for six months, the child automatically becomes a citizen of the Russian Federation.

Why is this necessary?

Many parents are wondering whether it is necessary to include their child in their own passport at all, since in accordance with the current legislation, in principle, no punishment is provided for the absence of this entry.

At the same time, any employee of government bodies conducting activities related to children or their parents will recommend that the child be included in their own passport, and to do this as soon as possible, since this entry may be required in the following situations:

registration of benefits for a child or registration of a family as a large one;
obtaining a visa for a child while traveling abroad;
placement of a child in a preschool or school institution.

In practice, a record of a child is required in many situations where it is necessary to confirm the presence of children of a certain citizen. In particular, in addition to the situations discussed, this applies to employment, processing large loans and many other situations.

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Why is this necessary?

You can enter information about your child into a foreign passport if he or she has not reached the age of 14 and if you do not want to issue a separate document. This is also necessary when children travel with their parents or guardians. To enter information, it is important that the minor must have citizenship of the Russian Federation.

As for next of kin documents, children cannot be listed on the pages under any circumstances.