A person who previously had citizenship of the Russian Federation, but for some reason lost it, has the right to recover in it. To do this, he must have a legal source of income in the Russian Federation and spend at least three years in the country by residence permit. For questions of restoring citizenship, you must contact the territorial body of the FMS at the place of residence or the Russian consulate abroad.
You will need
- - application or application for restoration of citizenship of the Russian Federation on the form of the established form;
- - notarized translation of a foreign passport;
- - residence permit in the Russian Federation;
- - confirmation of the existence of a legitimate source of income: a certificate of work from the salary or from the bank about the balance in your account in the amount of not less than 12 living wages of the region of residence at the time of application;
- - confirmation of the application for renunciation of existing other citizenship;
- - a document confirming knowledge of the Russian language;
- - confirmation of the fact of withdrawal from citizenship of the Russian Federation or appeal to the competent authority (FMS or diplomatic mission) about the reluctance to be a citizen of the Russian Federation;
- - receipt of payment of state duty.
Instruction manual
1
Contact the FMS unit or the nearest Russian consulate to clarify the list of necessary documents for your case and receive recommendations where you can get them.
2
Make a notarized translation of a foreign passport (personal data and a page with a residence permit), if you have another citizenship. You will be helped with this at any Russian translation agency or directly at a consular post outside the Russian Federation.
3
Prepare a document confirming that you have a legal source of income in the Russian Federation. This can be a certificate of employment or a statement of the balance in the bank account. Please note that in the first case, only official income is taken into account, since certificates from work must be checked through the tax office. If the official income is lower than real and it is not enough, it is preferable to present an extract from the bank. A sufficient income is considered to be not less than a living wage. Its value is set for each region once a quarter. The amount relevant at the time of the appeal will be prompted by the FMS or the statistics department. In your bank account you must have an amount of at least 12 monthly subsistence minimums: per year.
4
Submit an application for withdrawal from existing foreign citizenship to the competent authority of the respective country or its nearest consulate in the Russian Federation and take there confirmation of the fact of your appeal on this issue. What documents can be adopted in this capacity, check with the Russian consulate or the FMS unit where you plan to apply with a request or application for restoration of citizenship.
5
Make a copy of the document on education, if it contains information that you studied Russian. If this document is issued by a foreign state, make a notarized translation into Russian. In the absence of such a document, you will have to pass an exam in the Russian language and get a certificate of this. Where it is better to apply for this purpose, they will be shown at the consulate of the Russian Federation or the FMS unit.
6
Fill out your citizenship renewal application. You can take his form in the FMS unit or consulate, in a company offering services for filling out documents for the FMS (there you will fill it out for a fee) or download in electronic form from the websites of the FMS units and Russian diplomatic missions abroad.
7
Personally or by mail, contact the competent authority through which you left the citizenship of the Russian Federation, and you will receive confirmation of your passage through this procedure.
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Pay the state fee or consular fee. You can find out the details in the FMS unit, and pay in any branch of Sberbank of the Russian Federation. Specify the procedure for paying the consular fee at a particular consulate.
9
Submit a full package of documents to the FMS unit or consulate and wait for a decision.
