Now it is widely believed that if the parents are citizens of the Russian Federation, then the child does not need to apply for citizenship, he receives it automatically. The main thing is that parents present their passports, thereby confirming that they have Russian citizenship. This is actually not the case. It is necessary to apply for a child’s citizenship, but not everyone knows how to do it.
Most parents learn that a child needs to apply for citizenship only at the time of going abroad. As a result, the trip has to be postponed, since the citizenship of the Russian Federation is the data that is among the most important when traveling abroad. The need to issue a certificate of citizenship to a child disappears if you do not plan any trips abroad before reaching the age of 14 years. At the age of fourteen, receiving a passport, he will automatically receive a seal that will prove that he is a citizen of the Russian Federation. However, it is impossible to plan your life or the life of your child for 14 years in advance, so you should think about applying for citizenship immediately after giving birth. After all, the financial situation may change, and you can send your child to study abroad, or he can go to a music competition, get a ticket for winning a competition or an olympiad and so on. Begin to draw up a passport for him, and you will have to deal with additional chores. In any case, you will solve the problem of registration of registration, birth certificate and other documents, why not register citizenship at the same time? Moreover, today the procedure for obtaining citizenship has been greatly simplified. By 2011, the following changes were made to this process: now there is no need to issue citizenship inserts to those children who are not yet 14 years old; the procedure boils down to stamping the child’s citizenship in the passport of the parents. To obtain citizenship, you need to present your passports (originals and copies), as well as the birth certificate of the baby. They put a stamp in the passports of both parents - this procedure now takes only a few minutes. It is also important to know that previously issued Russian citizenship inserts are valid until the child receives a passport.
