How to apply for a foreign passport through State Services

Registration on the State Services website

The procedure itself is short and uncomplicated. To register on the State Services portal you need:

Russian passport;
SNILS;
mobile phone or email.

Create a simplified account

Go to the main page using the link - https://www.gosuslugi.ru/ and click on the “Register” button.

We indicate contact information: last name, first name, mobile phone and email. Click on the “Register” button.

After this, an SMS message with a confirmation code will be sent to the entered phone number. It should be entered in the “Code” and click on the “Continue” button.

At the next stage, you need to come up with a password to log into your personal account.

Ready! Simplified account registration is completed. But to obtain a foreign passport through State Services, you need a “Confirmed Account” . How to get it is described below.

Upgrade to Standard Account

After creating an account on the website, you must enter personal data: passport data and SNILS number.

This can be done on the page - https://esia.gosuslugi.ru/profile/user/personal/edit. After entering, do not forget to click on the “Save”

After filling out, personal data is sent for automatic verification to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and the Federal Migration Service. The results of the test will be known in a few minutes.

Based on the results of this review, your account should be upgraded to Standard .

Account Verification

In order to obtain a foreign passport through State Services, you need to have a verified account.

There are three confirmation methods available:

contact the Service Center;
receive an identity verification code by mail;
use an enhanced qualified electronic signature or a Universal Electronic Card (UEC).

Personal appeal

To get started, check out the list of approved Service Centers on the page https://esia.gosuslugi.ru/public/ra/

Choose a center that is convenient for you and simply visit it. You will need to have a Russian passport and SNILS with you.

By mail

Having chosen this method, you will need to indicate your postal address and click on the “Order letter” . A letter with an identity verification code will be sent to it.

You will be able to receive the letter at your Russian Post office upon presentation of the notice that will arrive in your mailbox. The average delivery time for a letter is about 2 weeks.

The code from the letter should be entered into a special field on the page - https://esia.gosuslugi.ru/profile/user/personal.

Electronic signature

You can confirm your identity with an Enhanced Qualified Electronic Signature or UEC. To do this you need to prepare:

physical media (token or smart card) with the user’s electronic signature issued by an accredited certification authority.
For some electronic signature media, you need to install a special program - a crypto provider (for example, CryptoPro CSP). To use UEC, you must install the cryptoprovider CryptoPro UEC CSP.
install a browser plugin.

Select the digital signature verification key certificate if you have multiple certificates. Enter the PIN code to read the electronic signature, and also sign the application for account confirmation. The electronic signature will be verified. If the verification is successful, the account will become “Verified”.

As a result, after confirming your identity using any of the three methods, your account will become “Verified” , and you will be able to obtain a foreign passport through State Services.

Requirements for a photo for a foreign passport through State Services.

After registering on the portal, you should take photographs measuring 35 by 45 mm in digital and paper form. The first format will be needed for downloading along with the application form. The second is when submitting documents to the passport office.

Various online services allow you to take high-quality digital photographs for documents without leaving your home. There is a risk that they will not fit, but this can be reduced if, in addition to the sizes, the following requirements are met:

Resolution – at least 300 pixels;
Format – jpeg, png, jpg or bmp;
Image size – no more than 5 MB;
Monochrome for a black and white image (8 bits), for a color image – 24 bits.
Photo for an international passport: requirements 2021, how to take and how to upload?

Free online passport photo editing in a photo editor

JPEG or JPEG 2000 is an image format.
More than 450 dpi – photo resolution.
The photo space is 24-bit in color, or 8-bit in black and white.
The attached file is no more than 300 KB.
Photo size: 415x531 – minimum, 1032x1328 – maximum.
Photo size 35 by 45, black and white or in color, full face view, without headgear, high definition.
There is an acceptable option for depicting the applicant in a headdress if his religious beliefs do not allow him to appear in front of people without it, but with the condition that the oval of his face will be visible.
If the applicant wears glasses, then he must be photographed wearing them, but with the condition that the glasses are not tinted and the frames do not cover the eyes.

Please review the photo requirements outlined in this article below.
Click “Upload image from computer” in the photo editor and upload your photo.
If necessary, you can remove red eyes with a special tool, change the background, do color correction, cover up pimples, and add some other filters. Just like in regular Photoshop.
Select the Crop tool (shortcut C).
In the Constraint option at the top of the screen, select Aspect Ratio and enter a width of 35 and a height of 45. If you need to enter a size in pixels, you need to select the Output Size option. The exact size of the actual photo when printed will depend on the pixel density per inch. For example, at DPI 300 (300 pixels per inch), the photo size will be 413x531 pixels.

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What documents are needed?

To apply for a foreign passport through State Services in 2021, you will need the following documents:

photo. We described in the previous paragraph how to take a correct photograph in digital format for subsequent uploading to the portal;
documents related to the applicant’s activities over the past 10 years. This could be a work record book, an agreement with an employer, a diploma of education, a certificate from the Employment Center stating that the applicant was officially unemployed and registered, a military ID, a certificate from the social security authorities stating that the applicant was caring for an incapacitated person , and others;
for those who previously received a foreign passport, provided that its validity has not expired at the time of application, the details of this identity card;
for those who changed their first and last names - a document reflecting this fact.

Nuances

In order for the form to have the proper appearance, the following features of filling it out should be taken into account:

All data is entered exclusively in capital letters.
Items requiring a choice of answer are marked only with an “X”.
The photo is not attached to the application form. If the form is sent through State Services without printing, the applicant will be offered a special field for uploading a photo and formatting it (you can find out what the photo requirements for a new international passport in electronic form are here).
A personal signature is placed exclusively in the presence of a GUVM employee. The signature must not go beyond the border of the corresponding rectangle, otherwise the application will not be accepted.
The print scale must be 100%. It is also necessary to pay attention that the form does not have black stripes from the printer cartridge or poorly printed areas.

Thus, filling out an application for a new generation international passport is one of the very first steps necessary to obtain it within the period established by law. It is extremely important to take a responsible approach to the issue of its proper design, avoiding errors and inaccuracies.

If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl+Enter.

How to order an old and new international passport through State Services

Having studied the information about what documents are needed for a foreign passport through State Services, it’s time to begin the procedure itself.

To begin, select the option “Services” , and in it – “Passports, registrations and visas” . In the list of options under this item, we find and activate the option “International passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation” .

At the next stage, we are taken to a page where you need to select the type of passport.

You can order it in the old format or with the content of an electronic medium - a biometric document. The first is issued for a period of 5 years, the second – for 10 years. When applying for an old-style document, you will have to visit the passport office once. You will have to go twice to get a biometric passport.

If you need a biometric international passport, then you should click on the button “Select a new sample” , if the passport is of an old type - accordingly, “Select an old sample” .

Next, we select the required age category of the applicant; three options are available for Russian citizens aged:

up to 14 years old;
from 14 to 18 years old;
from 18 years and older.

Once the preparatory steps have been completed, a choice has been made in favor of one of two types of documents, you can begin to draw up an application. To do this, on the next page you need to click the “Get service” .

The entire procedure is performed in the following few steps:

Submitting an application through the public service portal.
Receive a message about the date and time of your visit to the FMS office.
Submitting documents to the passport office.
Obtaining a passport.

The public service portal allows you to avoid one or more visits to the FMS office, when you will have to stand in a long line. But the portal does not save you from directly filling out and submitting documents to the passport office employee.

How to properly take and upload a photo to State Services

It is advisable to take pictures in plain clothes (not uniform). You cannot edit the finished image - retouch, eliminate defects, apply filters, change the color of eyes, skin, hair, etc. Only the applicant must be in the photo (without unauthorized persons in the frame and without unnecessary objects).

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If you manage to take a photograph that meets all the conditions of the portal, then there should be no problems with filling it. However, very often on forums dedicated to e-government services, you can find discussions on the topic: “I can’t upload photos to State Services.” To avoid such problems, you can use a simple step-by-step algorithm.

Compiling and sending an application

To begin drawing up your application, click the “Start” .

At this stage, you will have to take a short survey: you will need to answer whether you need an old or new document.

For reference: foreign passports of the new and old sample have a number of differences. The old one is valid for 5 years; adults will have to pay 1,400 rubles for it to the state treasury and 700 rubles for children under 14 years of age. The duration of the document of the new format is 10 years, and the state duty when registering it on the Internet portal is 3,500 rubles and 1,750 rubles, respectively.

You will also be asked a question about who the document is being drawn up for - you, your children, or a non-incapacitated person for whom you are acting as a guardian.

Next, you need to decide whether you want to apply for a foreign passport through State Services and receive permanent residence, temporary residence or actual residence at your place of residence.

The system will offer information on documents, deadlines and cost of obtaining a foreign passport, taking into account the answers to previous questions. Click the “Proceed to Filling” .

The first step at this stage of filling will be to confirm your personal information. After registering on the site, the system automatically fills in the required form with your full name, date and place of birth, residential address, internal passport details, telephone number, and email address. All you have to do is check them and, if necessary, edit them - this option is provided. If for some reason some of the data was not transferred automatically, you must enter it manually.

We confirm the phone number.

Confirm your email address.

We confirm the address of permanent registration if receiving a foreign passport is chosen at the place of registration. In other cases, it will be necessary to confirm the addresses of temporary registration and actual residence.

After you confirm the relevance of your personal information, a page with a form under the photo will appear. It can be dragged from the adjacent window or loaded in the standard way from the folder with saved files.

What will take the most time is filling out the form showing your activities over the past 10 years. You can fill it out in any order

For example, by selecting the “I studied” item, you should enter information about all places of study, indicating its start and end dates, even if there was a period of other activity between being in different educational institutions.

The next item, “I worked,” is filled out in a similar way. It is convenient to do this if you have your work book in front of you.

For those who served in the Russian armed forces within 10 years before issuing a foreign passport, you must also fill out the information under the “I served” item.

And for those who during one period or another did not work or study, the fourth point is intended, which is called that way.

Important: data from documents confirming your activity must be entered in full, without abbreviations or abbreviations.

Next, you need to answer the question whether you have changed your last name or first name in the past.

If there have been changes in personal data, you must indicate the old ones.

Then – do you have a valid passport?

Please note that if the document has not expired, it is considered current - even if it was lost, stolen, or damaged. If you do not indicate the fact of its presence in the application, the fraud will be revealed when your question is considered and the issuance of a new document for trips abroad will be denied to you.

Adding relevant information.

In a new format, for the convenience of users, it is collected on one page. You will need to notify the competent authorities of:

country of birth of the applicant;
work with important and secret documents, technologies, other information, as well as access to state secrets - if such work took place in the past or is currently available;
the presence of obligations that are incompatible with trips abroad (agreements, contracts that stipulate such a condition);
whether the applicant is accused or suspected of committing a crime, convicted with an outstanding criminal record, recognized as a financially insolvent person or bankrupt;
whether there is any evasion of court decisions. In this case, we mean, among other things, administrative obligations - fines, penalties, alimony and the like.

The next page asks you about the reason for issuing a passport. If you are receiving a document for the first time, select the first option. If your case is to replace a foreign passport after expiration through State Services or to receive a document to replace a damaged one, you should select the second option. It implies that when you receive a new passport, you will be able to return the old, unusable one. For those who have lost the document, the third point is suitable.

At the finish line, all you have to do is select the migration department where you want to receive a ready-made passport and submit your application.

Tips for sending and printing a document

When sending a fully completed document for printing from electronic media, you should make sure that it is saved in a file with the .pdf extension.
To print, select the menu item “File – Print”, then in the dialog box that appears, select the printer and the number of copies.
You must specify the value “None” in the “Page Scale” box.
Then, using the “Advanced” tab, select “Print as Image”.
The application form is printed in duplicate on both sides, and attachments, if any, are printed separately. After this, the form along with the original documents is submitted by the applicant to the migration service department (read about what documents are needed for a new type of international passport for 10 years).
You can also apply for a new generation passport without printing the forms. To do this, you should use the State Services website, where you need to register and, using the appropriate functions of your personal account, fill out and send a similar form.
After this, you will be able to personally track the status of the applicant’s application. Upon receiving a message about the successful acceptance of the application form, which will appear in the notification feed of your personal account, the applicant will be invited by the inspector of the Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to submit original documents.

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How to obtain a foreign passport through State Services?

In 2-3 days you will receive a message indicating the date and time for your visit to the passport office, and the number of the office you need to contact.

By this time, you need to put together all the documents that were used to compile the electronic application, printed photographs. Additionally, you need to pay a state fee; the receipt is attached to the general package.

At the appointed time, all this is submitted to the FMS employee. He will check the information contained in the application with the data in official documents, and a copy will be made from the passport of the citizen of the Russian Federation. If no errors are found, in this case one of two actions is performed:

An old-style international passport is issued.
A photograph is taken on a biometric passport, for which you will have to come again.

How long does it take to obtain a foreign passport through State Services?

You can receive a document at your place of permanent residence in a month or even earlier. The timing of receiving the document depends on the place of application. Those who indicated the address of temporary registration or actual residence as the place of receipt will have to wait up to 90 days. The same period is established for applicants whose work is or was previously connected with secrecy and state secrets.

In some cases, obtaining a passport may be denied. The applicant is given the reasons why he cannot be issued a document. This means that travel abroad is temporarily unavailable for him.