The first advice in such a situation is not to panic and take all possible measures to find the missing document as soon as possible. You should calm down and check your pockets and personal bag again - perhaps you accidentally put your passport in the wrong place, and it will show up in another pocket or at the bottom of the bag. If these searches are unsuccessful, try looking for your passport at home and at your workplace, and you should also look in your car. Remember how long ago you could have lost your passport, and where it was most likely to happen. Perhaps such a thorough search will help you find your lost document.
If the search does not produce results, then you should contact the FMS at your place of registration (or place of residence) and report there about the loss of the document. You will need to write an application to the Federal Migration Service for the issuance of a new passport and pay a fine (the amount of which is from 100 to 300 rubles - in accordance with Article 19.16 of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses) for the loss of the old one. The promptness of your actions also plays a role in the issue of the size of the fine. For the fact that you lived for a long time without a passport and did not apply for its restoration to the competent authorities, administrative liability is provided (under Article 19.15 Part 1 of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses). In this case, you will have to pay a fine of 1,500 to 2,500 rubles.
Before contacting the FMS for passport restoration. a person should prepare the following documents: • Application for passport restoration outlining the circumstances under which the old passport was lost • 4 color or black and white photographs of the established sample. • Receipt for payment of state duty • Other documents proving your identity (Birth certificate, military ID, marriage certificate or divorce certificate) - these documents will be needed both to verify your identity and as a basis for making the appropriate marks in the new passport.
After the FMS accepts your documents for passport restoration. You must be issued a temporary identity card of a citizen of the Russian Federation. The FMS office at your place of registration will issue you a new passport within 10 working days, but if you applied to another FMS office, you will have to wait longer for the new document - about two months.
If you are sure that you have lost your passport in some public place (at a train station, in public transport, etc.) or it has been stolen, then you need to immediately contact the police and write a statement about the loss of your passport under unknown circumstances. You may have to show some persistence to get your application accepted. After your application is accepted, you should be given a special coupon. From the moment you receive such a coupon, all responsibility for the old document is removed from you - thus, you will protect yourself from all kinds of fraudulent actions with your lost passport. Therefore, it is so important to report the loss of your passport as quickly as possible. If you react quickly, then perhaps your lost passport will not have time to fall into the hands of scammers.
After some time, you will receive a response to your application by mail, which will contain a decision to initiate a criminal case, or a refusal to do so.
With this answer, you will also need to go to the FMS and write an application there for the issuance of a new document. The option of contacting the police takes longer, but this way you will protect yourself from scammers.
A passport is a document that every adult needs.
Without it, a number of difficulties will arise. At the same time, no one is immune from the fact that a passport is lost, stolen or damaged.
Then a completely reasonable problem arises about what to do if you lose your passport as a citizen of the Russian Federation? We will try to clearly describe this situation in this material.
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Lost passport - what to do first? Where to go if you lose your passport?
The first (everyday) advice is to remember where the passport was last used. Perhaps it was forgotten there and it is simply enough to take it back.
The situation is more complicated when a bag with documents is stolen, a robbery occurs on the street or at the entrance, and other similar unpleasant situations.
In any case, it is important to immediately submit a free-form statement to the police department.
This must be done, if only so that the lost passport is recorded in all databases. Then it will be much easier to protect yourself from the actions of scammers (false loans, real estate fraud, etc.).
The application must describe under what circumstances the theft occurred or the loss of the passport was discovered. You must also keep a tear-off coupon with you, which will indicate that the police department accepted the statement.
Even if a criminal case is not initiated, documents from the police, namely the resolution on the essence of the application, will still be needed at the passport office.
What documents are needed?
First of all, two applications must be submitted to the passport office.
One of them concerns the loss of an old passport, and the other concerns the issuance of a new one.
They can be filled out right on the spot with the help of the passport department staff.
Be prepared for the fact that you may be required to provide a certificate from the Housing Office, a birth certificate, an extract from the house register, etc. Everything will depend on the specific situation and the will of the passport office workers.
Special attention should be paid to photographs. There should be four of them with a size of 3.5 X 4.5 centimeters. Photo studios that produce photographs are probably familiar with the requirements for passport photographs.
For example, you cannot take pictures with glasses if the person does not wear them all the time. It is also not allowed to be photographed wearing a hat or other headwear. In this case, the person’s face in the photograph must be captured in full.
If there was an appeal regarding the passport to the police, then all available materials from them should be provided. You also need to pay a state fee to obtain another passport. When it comes to loss, it will cost one and a half thousand rubles. All payment details will be available at the passport office.
You will need documents on the basis of which the necessary marks are provided in the passport. This includes information about marital status, children, and military service. Consequently, copies of certificates of marriage (divorce), birth of children, as well as a military ID will be required.
Where to contact
In order to renew your passport, you should go to the passport office at your place of residence.
Its coordinates can be found on the Internet or checked with the regional department of the internal affairs agency.
It is worth contacting there even when your passport was lost in another region. Another thing is that then the issuance of a new document may take longer (up to two months).
Statement of loss
We have already noted that it is filled out at the passport office. In the header you need to indicate the name of the territorial migration authority where it is addressed, as well as all information about yourself (address, telephone, email).
Lost/stolen passport application form
Please note that the document should list all your personal data, including full initials and date of birth.
Despite the fact that a separate application is written for a new passport, in an application regarding the loss of a document you should ask for a new passport.
The application can be written either by hand or printed on a computer. The main thing is that the date and personal signature of the owner of the lost document are present there.
How to recover a lost passport
So, a citizen has lost his passport - how to restore the lost document?
Of course, you can’t do without a visit to the premises of the regional passport office. Before doing this, it is advisable to collect all the required papers in advance.
To do this, it is advisable to clarify their entire list in advance in order to exclude repeated visits.
Make sure that while you are renewing your passport, you have other identification documents on hand. These include driver's licenses, etc.
If your passport is lost or stolen in your area of residence, it will take ten days to issue a new document. Otherwise, the waiting time for a new document can be up to 2 months.
It may happen that the old passport is found after all the documents for its replacement have been submitted. And here there are two options. You can withdraw your application and all submitted documents, which is not prohibited by law. However, it is better not to risk it and hand over your old passport and wait for the new one to be ready. After all, it is unknown what they managed to do with him during the period of his disappearance.
What else is worth knowing
It happens that the ID was first stolen, and then the passport was returned. What to do in such a situation? Well, it will be invalid anyway. After all, after the police, a person goes to the Federal Migration Service, where they issue him a new document. There are several options for the development of events. The first is that the citizen goes to the police, tells the situation and indicates the information that the document was returned to him. Most often, for reasons related to the fact that he could take out a loan using a stolen passport. The second option is to simply go to the Federal Migration Service and hand over the find. Since the passport will still be considered invalid, and you should not keep it. If he is discovered, he may be charged with using a false document.
Restoring a passport if lost: temporary identity card
This document is issued for the period of completion of all necessary formalities by the passport office.
For the issuance of a temporary certificate, a separate application must be written with a photograph attached.
A kind of replacement for a passport is issued on the day of submission of all documents. At the same time, there is no need to pay an additional state fee for issuing a certificate.
A temporary identity card will fully replace a passport on the territory of the Russian Federation for some time (2 months). It can be presented to law enforcement officers, a notary, etc. However, there are some significant limitations that you should be aware of.
Firstly, registration of registration is not allowed using the ID. In addition, traveling abroad will be significantly difficult. In addition, there are cases when some banks refuse to carry out operations to replace a passport. It is clearly necessary to understand that such actions are outside the legal framework.
If the passport office, after submitting documents for the main passport, refuses to issue a temporary certificate, then such actions are contrary to the law.
When a new passport has already been produced, the temporary certificate is canceled and returned to the passport office employee.
Nuances you need to know about
A new passport is always issued with different details. Therefore, you need to make sure to notify all known persons about changes in passport data. First of all, this applies to the place of work or study, housing office, utilities, etc.
If passport details were present in currently valid contracts (loan, lease, mobile communications contract, etc.), then it is advisable to conclude additional agreements to the signed transactions in order to avoid misunderstandings.
You should also notify the bank that issued the cards or opened current accounts about the change of passport.
It would be a good idea to provide copies of pages from the new document.
You should also remember that you cannot be without a passport for a long time. All documents must be submitted within a month from the date of loss, theft or damage. Otherwise, the violator may face administrative punishment. The amount of monetary recovery here varies from 2 to 5 thousand rubles.
In case of passport theft, there is no liability for its loss.
In addition, the mere fact of losing or damaging a passport is punishable. Here the punishment is much softer - from 200 to 300 rubles.
What to do if you lost your passport? If such a situation arises, you need to prepare the necessary package of documents and contact the FMS authorities with them. The procedure for obtaining a passport is regulated by the “Regulations on the Passport of the Russian Federation,” and we will tell you how to restore your passport in our article.
Question answer
Losing your passport may raise additional questions.
What punishment does the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provide for passport theft?
Russian legislation provides for liability for both the loss of a passport and its theft. In the second case, the punishment will be much more serious, since theft of a document falls under the Criminal Code.
Reference: Article 325 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation stipulates that theft, destruction, or damage to a passport committed out of mercenary or other personal interest is punishable by a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles or imprisonment of up to one year.
What can they do with a stolen passport?
If a passport is stolen, attackers are able to perform various actions with it, which can cause a lot of problems for the owner.
- Take a loan. Financial security systems have advanced in their development, but there are banks that still do not require a large package of documents for a loan. In addition, many microloan offices have appeared.
- Form a company. In 2022, in one of the Russian regions, a local resident complained to the media that bailiffs came to her to collect a debt that arose in Moscow. As it turned out, several metropolitan companies involved in fraud were registered under the woman’s name. The woman herself lived in the outback and knew nothing about it.
- Use to discredit a person. If the passport holder refuses to transfer money to online scammers, they can post his passport information on social networks and come up with a story discrediting his personality.
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What are the consequences of losing your passport?
In accordance with Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 232 and Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 828, for Russian citizens, a passport is the main document with which they can verify their identity.
The loss of a Russian passport gives rise to many negative consequences associated with it. The norms of administrative legislation imply responsibility provided for in Art. 19.16 for the above act. Under this article of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, a person who has lost a document may be brought to administrative responsibility. The sanction that applies to a person who has lost a passport is a fine of 100 to 300 rubles or a warning.
Since the loss of a passport is considered an offense by the legislator, this already indicates the seriousness of this document, as well as the existence of legal consequences for such an offense.
Attention should also be paid to the fact that Art. 19.16 of the Code of Administrative Offenses against someone who has lost their passport only if his guilt is proven.
A more serious offense will be if you lost the document a long time ago and were in no hurry to submit an application to the FMS authorities. In such cases, your actions may be considered violations under Art. 19.15 of the code. This article provides sanctions for the fact that a citizen lives at his place of residence without a document that could prove his identity. It must be said that Muscovites for such an act are subject to a fine of 2,000 to 3,000 rubles, and residents of St. Petersburg can pay from 3,000 to 5,000 rubles for the same act.
If, nevertheless, you have such a situation, then you can find out what to do if you have lost your passport and what is the procedure for restoring it from the following sections of the article.
Actions if your passport is stolen
There is no need to worry if your ID is stolen. With our help, you can quickly restore a document and not spend a lot of time on it. If you don't know what to do, call a lawyer or leave a question in the form on the website.
There is a point we would like to focus on. When you go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to submit an application, the police may suggest that you do not report the theft, but write that you simply lost the document, arguing that otherwise the recovery period will be longer. But that's not true. The only difference here is that if you report the theft, a criminal case will be initiated; otherwise, the police will not open a case. Therefore, it is better to provide truthful information.
Note!
If you are not sure that your passport was stolen, and you did not lose it or washed it with your things, it is better not to testify, otherwise you risk falling under Art. 306 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Thus, for falsely reporting theft, you may be fined up to 120,000 rubles or in the amount of an annual salary, and forced to perform community service for 180-240 hours. In particularly difficult cases, correctional labor for up to 2 years, arrest for up to six months, or imprisonment for up to 2 years may be imposed.
If thieves stole your passport abroad, you need to:
- go to the local law enforcement office to report a missing document;
- with a copy of the application signed by a notary, visit the embassy or consulate and issue a temporary certificate.
What to do if you lose your passport, what documents are needed to restore your passport
My passport was stolen, what should I do? First you need to collect the following list of documents for its restoration:
- a written statement that the passport is lost;
- application requesting the issuance of a new passport (form DP-1);
- photo 4 pieces;
- document confirming payment of the state duty.
All of the above documents must be submitted to the territorial office of the FMS at your place of residence.
How to restore a passport if lost and at the same time be able to preserve the information that was contained in it. To do this, it is necessary to submit to the territorial bodies of the FMS, in addition to all the above papers, the following list of necessary documents:
- a document confirming registration or divorce;
- military ID;
- evidence of your registration at a specific place of residence;
- document confirming the birth of the child.
Appeal to the Ministry of Internal Affairs
What to do if your passport is stolen? The first step is to contact the police department. Moreover, you can contact both the internal affairs department located at your place of residence and the one located in the place where the passport was stolen. The latter is relevant if the passport was stolen, for example, in another city. In both cases, law enforcement officers are required to accept the application and issue a notification ticket. This official document records the following information: who contacted the police, when and for what reason. By the way, you can contact not only the duty station, but also the district police officer or police officers whom you noticed near the scene of the crime.
In the event that the theft occurred quite recently, and you even managed to remember the attacker, it is likely that they will manage to detain him “without delay”, and your passport will be returned to you. True, inexorable statistics say: such documents are extremely rare. The thing is that as soon as you report the loss of the main document to the migration service, it is immediately considered invalid. Therefore, when thieves try to apply for a loan or carry out some other scam, the operator or bank employee will immediately understand that the passport does not have legal force, and therefore the attacker will be denied service. Of course, after this you can only throw away your passport.
If your passport was stolen quite a long time ago, but you discovered it only now, police officers may require you to place an advertisement in the newspaper with the following text: “the passport of citizen such and such/number/series/date of issue is considered invalid.” Of course, you should give such an announcement as early as possible, then take the latest issue of the newspaper and contact the police with it. In this situation, the duty department simply cannot refuse to accept the application.
How to correctly file a statement about the loss of a passport
A statement that you have lost your passport is one of the necessary documents that is submitted to the Federal Migration Service in order for the procedure for its restoration to begin. The law does not provide for any special requirements for its preparation. The only requirement is that this document must be in writing and must contain the following information:
- date of loss of your passport;
- the circumstances under which the loss occurred;
- probable place where the passport could have been lost.
You should know that such an application does not need to be submitted to the internal affairs bodies if this document was not stolen from you or someone took possession of it without your desire in another way.
What should I do if the old paper was returned after an application for a new one was submitted?
Firstly, you cannot use your old passport, because it is no longer considered valid. Any use of the document for any purpose may be considered fraud.
Secondly, you must immediately report the discovery to the police. Causes:
- employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will take note that it is not the document itself that needs to be looked for, but the criminal;
- perhaps there will be some traces on the passport that will help find the culprit of the theft.
Unfortunately, theft of documents and money is the most common crime in Russia. How much they give and what charges are imposed for theft of funds, as well as what the victim should do if a Sberbank card was stolen - read on our website.
Restoring a passport if lost
After submitting a written statement to the FMS that you have lost your passport, as well as providing the above documents, the authorized person must give you a receipt stating that your application and documents have been accepted. The legislator provides for the issuance by the Federal Migration Service of a restored passport within the following terms:
- if you have a citizen registration at your permanent place of residence, the territorial division of the FMS will issue you the necessary document no later than 10 days;
- in the absence of such registration or if the lost document was issued in another region of the country, then the issuance of the restored document can be made within two months.
When an authorized person accepts your application and submitted documents, you are informed of the period within which the document will be reissued.
After submitting an application and all of the above documents to the FMS authorities, in order for you to be able to verify your identity during the period during which the document required for issuance will be prepared, you can request to be issued a temporary identity card. In this case, you need to provide an additional photo, in addition to those submitted to restore your passport.
Often, the authorized body of the FMS delays the issuance of a temporary certificate, since this may be due to the fact that the applicant received a lost document in another region of Russia. However, in such cases, despite excuses about the need to verify your identity, you can request an expedited temporary certificate.
In this case, in order to quickly issue a temporary document, provide the authorized person with another document you have that can confirm your identity. Such documents may be:
- pensioner's ID;
- "military";
- international passport, etc.
In addition, in order to speed up the issuance of a temporary document confirming your identity, the FMS can organize verification of your identity by making an interdepartmental request. This request can be sent, for example, to the enterprise or institution where the applicant worked or to the military unit where he served. That is, this means that the FMS will carry out all the actions necessary for expedited identity verification, and thus you will avoid delays in issuing a temporary certificate to you.
Why is it important to quickly get a new passport if your old one is stolen?
Most often, the theft of a passport has a specific goal for criminals - this is to issue a loan in the name of a citizen. In this case, scammers paste their photo in place of the photo of the ID card holder and present the document to the financial institution. Most often these are microfinance organizations, where they show great loyalty to clients.
As a result, the passport holder will become a borrower from the microfinance organization and will have to spend a lot of effort to prove his non-involvement in the loan. To prevent this from happening, you must immediately begin the procedure for re-issuing the document.
Nuances of the recovery procedure
The legislator has provided that the bodies that are authorized to issue a restored document can only require documents established by regulatory enactments. However, as practice shows, there are cases when authorized persons of these organizations require documents not established by law, which are, for example:
- document confirming your place of registration. You do not have to provide such a document, since the FMS authorities have the right to request such information independently at their own request;
- notification that your statement of missing passport has been registered at the Department of Internal Affairs.
- document confirming Russian citizenship;
You should know that if a similar situation happened to you, the above documents are unreasonably required from you and this is the basis for refusal to accept documents from you for passport restoration, request a written refusal indicating the reason and appeal the illegal actions in court.
Car documents were stolen
Along with the license, the registration documents for the car also disappeared. Have all your documents been stolen? What to do in such a situation? The procedure here is the same as in the case of restoring the right to drive a vehicle. The traffic police provides you with a passport, an application, and a purchase and sale agreement for a car (it’s unlikely that anyone will steal it, since no one carries such a document with them; if the contract is also stolen, it’s a bad thing). Having submitted all the papers to the traffic police, all that remains is to wait for further instructions.
Is it so sad when money and documents were stolen? As is already clear, there is nothing terrible in such a situation. Of course, there is little pleasure in the disappearance of important documents. However, today, restoring all the papers necessary for life is not such a difficult procedure.
How much does it cost to restore a passport if lost?
If you have lost your passport, the law requires you to pay a state fee to restore it. This fee is 1,500 rubles. The law provides for paying the same state fee even if your passport was damaged. That is, in this case, it is no longer possible to use the passport for its intended purpose, since the information contained in this document will be unreadable.
Administrative legislation does not establish any distinctions when such situations arise, which is why you will have to pay 1,500 rubles to restore your passport, regardless of the reason for the need for restoration.
According to the current legislation, to confirm that you have paid the required amount of state duty, you can provide only the details of the payment document to the authorized person of the Federal Migration Service.
The procedure for obtaining a lost passport is provided for by a special provision on the passport of the Russian Federation, since no one is insured against such a nuisance. Let's take a closer look at how and where to restore a lost passport, and what you will need for this.
How to return to your homeland
This is not all you need to know about the actions you need to take if your passport is stolen abroad. So, at the embassy you will need to present the notorious protocol (certificate) taken from the police, a statement, two photographs and another identification document. It seems that everything is not so complicated. Yes, but this is only if the person is located near the embassy. But when, say, he is vacationing at an island resort, the procedure becomes much more complicated. Because they won’t put him on a plane or train without a passport. You will have to get there by ferry, bus or taxi. And this is a considerable expense.
It also happens that the embassy requires witnesses to confirm the citizen’s words. These must be two Russian people who can confirm that he really lives in Russia. And they shouldn’t let it slip that they knew him just a couple of days after a chance meeting in a local tavern.
It’s a big problem if neither witnesses can be found nor documents are accepted at the embassy. In this case, there is only one way out - to call your relatives and ask them to send the papers that they may require at the consulate. And yet, you will have to hurry after receiving the coveted certificate of return from the embassy. Because it is valid for only 15 days.
Cost of passport renewal
To restore an identity document, you will need to pay twice - for the state fee and for the fine:
- The state-established fee for loss is 1,500 rubles.
- In some cases, a minor fine is provided for loss or damage - from 100 to 300 rubles. The law establishes that the later a citizen reports the loss of his passport, the greater the fine will be. As a rule, it is no more than 500 rubles.
The applicant will need to come directly to the district passport office or go to the official website of the FMS in order to obtain the details necessary for the transfer of funds.
The original receipt received after payment in any convenient way should be kept for the document package.
Algorithm of actions
If your identity document is stolen, you must follow these steps:
- First of all, contact the police. Here you will need to write a statement about the theft of documents.
- The next stage is contacting the migration service. You will need to write an application for re-issuance of your passport.
- Pay the state fee.
- Provide the migration service specialists with all the necessary documents. We'll talk about what kind of official papers you'll need a little later.
After that, you just need to wait for the new passport to be issued. Now let’s look at all these steps in as much detail as possible!
Where can I restore my lost passport?
With the collected package of documents, the citizen will need to contact the district FMS. This procedure can be provided as a step-by-step algorithm:
- Handing over the package of documents to the FMS employee. The specialist will carefully review the documents provided and tell you whether everything necessary is included and whether the applications are filled out correctly. If there are any shortcomings, the applicant will be told immediately and will be helped to correct the errors. If everything is selected correctly, the package of documents will be accepted.
- The specialist must issue a temporary identity certificate or a certificate confirming the issuance of a new passport:
For the period until the document is restored, these papers will be considered official confirmation of the citizen’s identity. It is important to consider that to obtain a temporary certificate you need 1 passport-sized photograph. In cases where the passport is stolen, the specialist issues a special notification coupon confirming that the loss of the passport has been registered with the internal affairs bodies.
- Notification that the document has been produced and its receipt.
A temporary identity card is considered valid for 2 months. If due to some complicating circumstances the passport is not issued during this period, the certificate will need to be renewed. In rare cases, it takes several days to produce such an ID card.
Passport production time
The procedure for restoring a document may take varying amounts of time depending on the circumstances in which it was lost, damaged or misplaced. In particular, 2 situations are noted:
- Losing your passport in your hometown. In this case, it will take less time to produce the document - from 10 days to 1 month. The duration depends on how quickly specialists check the submitted documents, how many holidays and weekends there are in the current month, etc. However, as a rule, it takes longer than the statutory period for passport production at 14, 20 or 45 years.
- Losing your passport in a foreign city. This case is the most complex and serious. Therefore, it requires more time: the maximum period for producing a new passport in another city can be 2 months, in some situations it can be longer.
Due to the fact that the time frame for document restoration is quite vague, you should contact the Federal Migration Service along with a package of documents as soon as possible after the loss.
The sooner you contact us, the better for you. For an additional payment, urgent passport restoration is not provided and, most often, FMS employees adhere to the maximum available time frame for document restoration.
Features of passport restoration
In the process of recovering a lost document, various problems and difficulties may arise, for which you need to prepare in advance. Let's take a closer look at them:
- The Federal Migration Service requires an address certificate (at the place of residence). The applicant has every right to refuse this certificate to the FMS specialist, since the agency’s employees have the legal right to independently request data and receive it without your help.
- A correctly drawn up application for a passport must necessarily include information about when the passport was lost (if it is not possible to provide an exact date, then an approximate date is indicated); where the event occurred and under what circumstances it happened. The more accurate the information provided, the higher the chances that the FMS specialist will accept the document.
- Documents confirming Russian citizenship also cannot be required by FMS employees. After all, the very fact that the applicant has lost his passport as a citizen of the Russian Federation is considered to confirm his citizenship.
- In some cases, FMS specialists require a notification coupon, which is issued only if the passport has been stolen. Such a requirement is also illegal.
A legal refusal to provide the required documents is formalized in writing as a complaint and sent to a city or district court, where the applicant can prove his case.
