How to find out if your passport is ready

A trip to other countries is impossible without a foreign passport. When planning your vacation, it is important not only to make sure that you have the funds for the trip, but also to submit everything you need to issue this document. And also wait until the passport is ready. Usually, the terms of its manufacture are small, but still you need to correctly calculate the time and periodically check its readiness. How to know if you're ready?

Submission of documents

Traveling abroad for the first time is always very exciting. Beginning tourists are worried about a variety of aspects - this is the choice of a travel agency, and the direction of travel, and the collection of necessary documents, and, of course,. However, in the latter case, as a rule, there is nothing to worry about - it is important to collect all the necessary papers and submit an application to the migration service, which will immediately start preparing the document.

There are a number of ways to apply for a grant:

• contact the migration service directly;
• use the now popular and very convenient online service of the State Services;
• resort to the help of firms involved in the rapid production of the document.

On a note! When choosing the latter option, it should be borne in mind that, in addition to the mandatory fee, when applying for a passport, you will also have to pay a fee for the urgency of preparing the document. It is also important to choose a company that you can trust - there are a lot of scammers out there these days.

To apply to the migration service in person or through the State Services service, you need to collect the following documents:

• an application form filled out independently;
• photo for the questionnaire;
• Russian passport and copies of its pages;
• for men - a certificate from the military registration and enlistment office.

On a note! For registration of the document, you will also need a birth certificate, as well as documents of the parents.

Then it is enough either to come to the migration service on your own at the set hours and days of admission and submit the documents in person, or fill out all the necessary pages on the State Services website. After submitting the documents, you just need to wait until the passport is ready.

Table. The amount of the state duty for a passport.

Deadlines for issuing a passport

The terms for issuing a passport are usually short and amount to only 30 days. However, in certain cases, they can increase up to 4 months (if a person had access to state secrets at one time or works in certain state structures). In practice, the document is prepared in much less than 30 days. In special cases, a passport can also be obtained in record time - in 3 days (in case of an urgent trip abroad related to the illness or death of relatives or the need to receive high-quality treatment). Time is needed to verify the data about a person.

Attention! only an old-style passport is being prepared. A biometric new document cannot be quickly made, since data is entered into it only at the factory - in a special chip built into one of the pages of the document.

It is usually not recommended to check the readiness of a foreign passport earlier than 1 month from the date of application for its receipt. However, quite often the document is ready much earlier than the stated deadline. Therefore, you can try your luck and contact the migration service earlier.

How to know if a document is ready: ways

You can find out if the document is ready with several . Almost all of them are not time-consuming, and you can choose the one that you like best. You can contact the migration service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs directly (come in person or call), see the readiness of your passport on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Services portal.

On the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

The easiest way to check the status of the document is by going to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (that is, the portal of the migration service). This is the fastest and most convenient option, because at the moment all the powers of the previously existing migration service of the FMS have been transferred to the police. And it is the Ministry of Internal Affairs that reviews the submitted applications and approves or rejects them.

Step 1. First you need to go through the window of any browser to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and click on the button "Checking the readiness of the passport".

Step 2 A new window will open where you need to select a passport form - old or new - and enter the appropriate data on the tab, as well as captcha.

Step 3 The next page will display information about whether the document is ready. If it has not been done yet, then the message will be as in the image below.

Attention! Checking the readiness of the passport is carried out according to the Russian identity document. To check information about the readiness of an old-format passport, you will need to indicate the region of residence, the passport number of a citizen of the Russian Federation, and the date of birth.

There is a text warning on the document readiness check page that this service provides only information and the received data has no legal significance. Therefore, it is also recommended to check the readiness of the passport by contacting the migration service in person. Usually, for this it is enough to come to the institution and get acquainted with the lists of those whose document is ready for issuance. They can be found on the information board.

Contacting the Migration Service

This is another way to find out if the documents are ready. There may be two options - a visit to the migration service at the place of submission of documents or a call to a specialist of the organization. Most often it is used by older people who are not friends with the Internet, or conservatives who are used to old methods.

The right to call is regulated by Order No. 211 of the FMS of 2014. When submitting documents for obtaining a passport, you just need to check with a specialist the phone number where you can contact and call him a couple of weeks after the package was submitted (but it is best to do this when all the production deadlines have already passed, and there is no new information about the status of readiness is approximately 1.5 months). You can also check the phone number on the website of the service at the place where the package was submitted. The readiness of the document is checked by the name and passport data of the applicant.

Attention! In the high season, Interior Ministry employees are rarely ready to answer calls and see if the document is ready. They may refuse to check the readiness of the passport on a call.

You can also come to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in person and ask if the document is ready. But in this case, you will most likely have to sit in queues and spend a lot of time.

Through the State Services

If the application for a passport was submitted on this portal, then there is no need to go to it and check the status, as the applicant will receive a status change notification in the form of SMS to the phone or email.

If you still want to check the readiness yourself (in case you suspect that the SMS or letter did not reach), then you will need to go to the site and look at the notification feed there (click on the letter icon in the upper right corner). In this tape, you need to find an item indicating the service, that is, "Obtaining a passport." If there is a mark “Completed” opposite it, then the passport is ready.

Attention! Only those users who are registered on the portal can use this method.

At the MFC

You can apply for a passport through the "My Documents" centers. However, the readiness of the passport will not be reported here. To do this, it is better to contact the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and clarify the information there.

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What to do if the passport is not ready

By all laws, a passport for traveling abroad is made within a month from the date of application (only in some cases this period is increased to 4 months). But sometimes employees of the migration service, even after this time, do not report the readiness of the document and do not provide the reasons why the passport is being made for so long. In some cases, it is generally difficult to get an appointment in person because of the long queues, and the vacation threatens to be covered with a copper basin.

In such cases, you should first try to file a complaint directly with the head of the department.. If the appeal has no effect, then it is recommended to contact the higher management. You can try your luck and call the department's hotline. But if the oral complaint was ignored, then it makes sense to write written complaints - send 3 registered letters addressed to the head of the department, to the prosecutor's office and to the regional center of the migration service. The letters indicate the contact details of the applicant and describe the whole situation. Usually such statements do not go unheeded. The term for consideration of complaints should not exceed 30 days.

Getting a "foreign" is not as troublesome as it seems at first glance. And usually everything goes smoothly - the document is handed out on time.