Before you get a passport in the Department of Visas and Registration, you have to stand in line, spending time. You will have to pay a considerable amount of money at a travel agency if you turn to them for paperwork.
Instruction manual
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Few people today know that getting a passport is easy and simple, just apply for it on the portal of public services online. Initially, you need to get official access to the public services portal, for this you need to go through the registration procedure. It is not difficult to do this, just click the "Register" button and then follow the instructions that the system will give. It is imperative to consent to access to personal information and its processing, it will also be necessary to choose a way to confirm your identity during authorization. The portal will offer several ways to do this, but the most popular is the activation code sent by letter using the Russian Post.
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Having received the activation code, you need to complete registration on the portal. For this, personal data, contact phone, e-mail are entered. After setting the password and answering the security question, you need to wait for the letter to the e-mail and SMS with the code to confirm the email address and phone. The code to activate your personal account will be sent in paper letter via Russian Post.
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Choose which sample passport you want to get. New passports are biometric today, their validity is 10 years, the cost is higher. The old-style passport is valid for only 5 years, it has less degrees of protection, but it costs less. The procedure for obtaining both one and the other is not much different, the registration process is the same.
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After registration, you need to fill out an application online. Information about yourself and relatives should only be reliable, as they are checked. Next, you should download the file with the photo and do not forget to save the questionnaire in your documents before sending it. If there are errors in the process, you won’t have to fill it all up again.
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Go to the FMS website, find and print the receipt of state duty for a passport. Pay it at any branch of Sberbank. The receipt will then need to be provided to the OVIR along with a package of prepared documents. If you need to get a passport in Moscow, then you need to pay the state duty there, in other settlements this cannot be done. The amount of the fee depends on the type of passport, so for an old-style passport they charge 1000 rubles, for a new biometric - 2500. Children's passports for citizens under 14 years old cost 300 rubles and 1200 rubles, respectively.
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After the system processes all the data, an e-mail message will be received with a message about the acceptance of the application. When the passport is ready, an invitation will be sent with the address where you need to come and get the document in your hands. There will also be a list of the originals of what documents are required to be provided.
note
If you have made an application for a passport through a travel agency, you need to be prepared that the deadlines will drag out, despite the fact that company employees promised to do everything quickly. Almost nothing depends on them, except for collecting money and documents. FSB officers also decide to issue the document; it is impossible to influence them. Hence the complaints that the travel agency promised to urgently produce a passport, but did not.
Useful advice
In order not to be without a passport on the eve of leaving the country, you need to submit documents for registration in advance. Contacting a travel agency that promises urgent production may not save the situation.
