If you find that your passport is missing, you need to take action immediately. There are frequent cases when large loans were issued for a lost passport or the passport holder found out that he was the director of an organization unknown to him and a participant in dubious frauds.
As soon as you know that your passport has disappeared, try to restore the chain of events and remember where exactly you could lose your passport. There are often cases when the owner found his loss. Write a statement to the local police. In the application, indicate under what circumstances you lost your passport. Your application will be registered and after verification they will issue a temporary identity card, as well as an incident registration coupon. If you have a copy of your lost passport or any other documents that establish your identity (this is especially true if the passport was lost in another city) - a driver’s license, military ID, passport, work book, etc., these documents will help law enforcement officers agencies to quickly check the information and issue you a certificate. With the coupon and certificate received at the Department of Internal Affairs, contact the FMS department at the place of residence or registration. Write a statement of loss and a statement on the issuance of a passport, pay the state fee. In order for your passport to be issued properly and all the marks should be put on it - about marriage registration, about the presence of children - you need to provide additional documents (certificate of marriage, birth certificate, etc.). The full list of documents should be clarified at the local FMS office. If you lose your passport in another country, contact your local law enforcement office and get a certificate of registration of the incident. Then go to the Russian consulate with the documents in your hands that can confirm your identity. Or take witnesses (with Russian passports) with you to certify your details. After the check, which may take from several days to several weeks, you will be issued a “Certificate of entry to the Russian Federation”, within 15 days you need to return to Russia and go through the procedure for obtaining a passport. Depending on the circumstances, you will be fined for improper storage passports.
