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Top 6 questions to Russian consulates in the US

Everyone who has emigrated abroad has to contact the consulate of their homeland from time to time. Get a new passport or renew an old one, make a power of attorney or take part in elections, obtain citizenship for a child or notarize documents - all these and many other questions You will have to decide at the consulate. Russian consulates in the United States, to put it mildly, are not particularly popular among the population. Huge queues, a lot of documents, unclear instructions and unfriendly staff - this is just a small list of what scares people. However, everything is not so difficult if you are well prepared for the visit to the consulate and find out what and how you need to do to solve your problem. We collected 6 most frequently asked questions of our editorial board. And for answers we turned to professionals - companies Russian Passport Agency, which is already for several years provides services for the issuance of passports, visas and other documents Russian Federation and CIS countries in the USA.

  1. I lost my Russian passport in the USA. What to do?

First of all, you need to contact the police about the loss of your passport and get a copy of the Police Report. If you have a valid Russian internal passport, you can immediately apply for a new international passport to the consulate.

If you do not live in the United States, but are here temporarily, you will soon have to return to your homeland, and you cannot wait for a new passport to be issued in the United States, then you need to obtain a Certificate of Return (START) to the Russian Federation.

This certificate is issued no earlier than a week before the departure date, and is valid only for 15 days from the date of issue. With such a certificate, you can pass passport control when boarding an aircraft. When you return to your homeland, do not forget that within three days you must hand over strategic offensive arms to the branch of the Federal Migration Service of Russia, where you received your lost passport.

If you do not have a valid internal passport, the procedure will be much more complicated - first you will have to obtain confirmation of Russian citizenship, and only then you will be able to apply for a new foreign passport or a certificate of return to Russia.

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Svetlana Dodonova, a representative of Russian Passport Agency in Miami, helps her clients to resolve issues with documents efficiently and quickly. Photo: russianpassportagency.com

Dmitry Boyko, client of the company Russian Passport Agency says that he discovered his passport was missing just before an urgent trip to Russia. At the same time, he did not have any time to deal with consular procedures. The company's employees helped Dmitry prepare all the necessary documents very quickly - within a week he was able to fly to Moscow.

  1. I got married and changed my last name. How can I get a new Russian passport for my new name while in the USA?

If your marriage certificate contains your new last name, you can safely contact the consulate for a new passport. Do not forget that if the marriage took place in the USA, then the Consulate should provide an international marriage certificate, legalized with an “apostille” stamp with a translation into Russian and consular certification of the translation. But if the marriage certificate does not indicate the surnames of the spouses assigned after marriage, unfortunately, it will not be possible to issue a new foreign passport at the consular office. The only way to change the last name in a foreign passport in this case is to first change the last name in internal passport through the FMS of Russia and only then apply for a new passport for a new last name.

  1. I came to the United States for a long time, during the Soviet times. Can I get Russian citizenship now?

If you left for the United States after February 6, 1992, you must make a request to confirm your Russian citizenship.

If you left for permanent residence before 6 February 1992, and in the period 1990-2000. you didn’t apply to the consulate for accepting Russian citizenship, you didn’t have Russian citizenship, and therefore we are not talking about restoration.

Still want to get Russian citizenship? To help you, there is a law on the simplified issuance of Russian citizenship to compatriots who speak Russian fluently and who lived (or their relatives lived) on the territory of the former USSR or the Russian Empire within the borders of the Russian Federation. But keep in mind that, according to current legislation, when accepting Russian citizenship, an adult applicant must renounce his other citizenships. So think twice.

  1. My Russian passports (both internal and foreign) are long overdue, where to start getting a new passport of the Russian Federation?

If you do not have any valid passport of the Russian Federation, then you can not immediately apply for a new international passport. First you have to go procedure for determining the citizenship of the Russian Federation. For this, the consulate makes a request to the FMS of Russia. And only after the citizenship of the Russian Federation has been confirmed, you can apply for a new foreign passport of the Russian Federation.

Catherine, who asked not to give her last name, told us her story. She arrived in the United States a long time ago, in the distant 1994 year. In 2000, the year has already become a US citizen. She did not plan to return to her homeland, therefore she didn’t worry about the long-overdue Russian passports. Catherine was sure that if she ever had to go to Russia, as a US citizen she could always get a Russian tourist visa in her American passport. Therefore, when Catherine wanted to visit her old grandmother in Russia, she decided to apply to the Russian consulate for a visa.

But not everything is so simple. In accordance with current legislation, Russian visas for citizens of Russia who have expired Russian passports are not issued. When applying for a tourist visa, all former citizens of the Russian Federation or the USSR must provide one of the documents confirming that the applicant does not have Russian citizenship at present (a copy of the USSR passport stamped “Permanent residence abroad” issued before February 6 1992; copy Visa to Israel issued before February 6 1992 of the year; a document confirming the refusal of Russian citizenship; Certificate of Naturalization in the United States issued before 1994) or go through the procedure for determining citizenship P ssiyskoy Federation.

Katerina did not receive a tourist visa. She had to receive confirmation of Russian citizenship, only after that she was able to apply for a passport for travel abroad. A lot of time was spent on this and, according to the girl, even more nerves. Katerina advises not to repeat her mistakes and receive all documents on time.

  1. In my Ukrainian passport is the Crimean registration. Can I get a passport of the Russian Federation, while in the United States?

Yes, it is possible to do this if you were registered in Crimea at the time of the adoption of the law on the adoption of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation 21 in March 2014. First you need apply for proof of citizenship - The consulate will make a request to the Federal Migration Service of Russia in the Crimea, upon the confirmation of citizenship it will be possible to apply for a passport.

  1. I recently received a green card in the USA. Should I notify the FMS of Russia about the presence of a residence permit in the United States?

In June 2014, Russia adopted a law requiring notification to the Federal Migration Service of Russia of the presence of citizenship or residence permit in a foreign country, which caused unrest and disputes among many immigrated Russians. It is easy to understand the concerns of compatriots - after all, according to the new law, concealing the fact of second citizenship leads to criminal liability.

However, before you flee to the consulate and talk about your American citizenship, remember that Russian citizens permanently residing abroad are an exception to this law. If you withdrew from the registration in Russia in connection with the departure for a permanent place of residence abroad, then by law you do not have to notify about the presence of foreign citizenship / residence permit. In addition, this issue is not within the competence of consular offices outside Russia. This is solely a question of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation in Russia.

And then who should notify? According to current legislation, a citizen of the Russian Federation permanently residing abroad, retaining temporary or permanent registration in Russia, is not formally included in the category of “permanently residing outside the Russian Federation” and is obliged to notify the FMS authorities about the availability of a second citizenship or residence permit 60-day period after the publication of the law or after the acquisition of foreign citizenship / residence permit, if this happened after the publication of the law. If at the time of publication of the law or the acquisition of foreign citizenship / residence permit, a citizen of the Russian Federation was abroad, then the 60-day notice period is counted from the date of entry into the Russian Federation. Consular institutions of the Russian Federation are not authorized to receive and forward such notifications to the bodies of the FMS of Russia.

Marina Romanova, a resident of New York, as a law-abiding citizen, immediately after her arrival in Russia in January 2016, went to the FMS to report her American citizenship. But the officials themselves at that time had not yet dealt with the new law. Marina shared her adventures in Russian instances: “I killed the month of my stay in Russia and the uncounted number of nerve cells. Obbivaya thresholds 4-x institutions, I have ensured that I still have documents for the X-th day of my stay in the country. But then they called me and returned the papers with the words that in my case it is not necessary to notify about citizenship. My question "why" no one answered. That is, people in the organizations to which I applied, and could not themselves understand the law. Unfortunately, in Russia this is a working situation. ”. Marina’s example clearly shows that you shouldn’t rely on the competence of officials; it’s better to deal with the issue yourself.

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