The main document of a citizen is a passport. For the Republic of Belarus, it acts both as an internal document and as a document that gives the right to travel abroad. Obtaining and replacing a passport is carried out according to clear parameters: the deadline for submission, the specifics and reliability of the information provided. To resolve any issues with the replacement and receipt of a passport, they apply to the passport offices of Minsk. Outside the Republic of Belarus, a citizen visits the embassies and missions of the country.
How to get a passport for a child?
According to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, a child of any age can issue the first such document. But without fail, this procedure is carried out at the age of 14.
To obtain a passport for a child at the age of 14, the following documents are provided:
- application for receipt. In the case of a minor, one of the parents fills out this form;
- child's birth certificate or outdated passport (if a replacement is needed);
- 4 new age-appropriate color photos on one sheet;
- registration data about the place of residence. If one of the parents is registered at a different address, his written consent is taken;
- passports of both parents;
- receipt of payment of state duty.
A feature of issuing a passport up to 14 years of age is considered a simplified procedure: only one of the parents' document is provided. In addition, the written consent of the second parent is not required to register the child at the address of the first parent, if registrations differ. You do not need the personal presence of the child to receive. If the request is made before the age of 14, the passport is issued free of charge.
Upon receipt of a passport under 13 years old, it is issued for a period of 5 years, starting from 13 - for 10 years.
When is a passport replacement required?
The passport is valid for 10 years. Persons under 14 years old change it after 5 years (with the exception of obtaining a passport at 13 years old). Additional situations that require an immediate visit to the passport office are:
- use of sheets for stamps;
- change in gender;
- identification of inaccuracies in the records;
- change of surname after marriage.
If the document is damaged (inappropriate appearance), lost or stolen, they urgently turn to the passport office or consulate abroad for its replacement, otherwise the citizen's actions fall under the concept of an administrative offense.
What documents are needed to replace a passport?
In addition to the old document and the application for the issuance of a new one, a photo is required (4 color according to the manufacturing rules for delivery to government agencies), information about minor children, marriage or divorce, the death of a husband or wife, a birth certificate, a receipt for payment of duties.
In the event that an identity document is lost outside the country, the consulate will issue a certificate giving the right to return to Belarus, where a standard issue will be made.
How do you change your passport when you change your surname?
If a change of surname is supposed, the husband or wife submit the old one for exchange. The old passport is valid for a month. If there is a visa in the passport that has not expired, but there is an exchange due to change of surname, then when contacting the embassy, \u200b\u200bthe visa must be transferred to a new document. If you are planning a honeymoon trip immediately after the wedding, then within 30 days, while the passport is valid, you must return to your homeland.
Please note that the 30-day period when the old passport is considered valid does not in any way affect the requirements of the country during which the passport must be valid when crossing its border.
When applying, you fill in the appropriate reason and submit a copy of your marriage certificate. The original is required for verification upon delivery.
After 30 calendar days, the passport with the old name is considered invalid. For its use, a fine is imposed in proportion to the delay.
What to do if your passport is lost?
The passport of the Republic of Belarus is a document that belongs to the state. Unlawful actions with him are considered an administrative offense. If the loss has occurred, the owner submits an application to the law enforcement agencies and describes the situation. It is advisable to provide an identity document (birth certificate, marriage certificate, driver's license), and provide escort of a friend who can confirm the identity of the applicant. The police will issue a certificate valid for a month to receive a new form.
The passport office provides: a statement explaining the circumstances of loss or theft; application for a request to issue a new document; 4 color photos; a receipt for payment of the state duty.
A citizen who has not applied to the passport office within a month will pay a fine in the amount of 1-4 basic units, depending on the period of delay.
How long does it take to produce a passport?
The standard term is 1 month. Adults are charged the base amount. Persons under 14 years of age with the initial and repeated registration, the document is issued free of charge. For urgent registration within 2 weeks - plus 1 basic, and for a calendar week - 2 additional basic ones.
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Passport of a citizen of the Republic of Belarus is a document proving the identity of a citizen on the territory of the Republic of Belarus and abroad, confirming citizenship and the right of its owner to leave the Republic of Belarus and enter the Republic of Belarus.
Every citizen who has reached the age of 14, as well as a citizen traveling outside the Republic of Belarus, regardless of age, must have a passport.
A passport to a minor citizen of the Republic of Belarus is issued for a period of 5 years - for citizens of the Republic of Belarus who have not reached 13 years of age, but not more than 14 years of age; for 10 years - for citizens of the Republic of Belarus who have reached the age of 13 and have not reached the age of 64.
For example, when exchanging a passport for a minor at the age of 12, the passport will be issued for a period of 2 years (until the age of 14), while, when exchanging a passport for a minor at the age of 13, the passport will be issued for a period of 10 years from the date of issue of the document.
These features must be taken into account when submitting documents for issuing visas, especially multiple-entry ones (before planning a trip at the diplomatic office or consular mission of the intended country of entry, it is necessary to clarify the requirements for the validity of the passport). For example, a passport to the EU countries must be issued no later than 10 years ago (at the time of departure). In order to avoid problems with obtaining a visa, the Citizenship and Migration Units recommend replacing the passport if it was issued 9 or more years ago.
Registration of a passport is carried out within a month, while a state fee of 1 base unit is paid. Citizens under the age of 14 are exempt from payment. In case of expedited registration within 15 days, an additional state fee is paid in the amount of 1 base unit.
In case of urgent registration within 7 days in the divisions for citizenship and migration located in Minsk and regional centers - 2 additional base values.
To complete the procedure for issuing a passport, a citizen must contact the passport officer of the settlement and reference center (hereinafter referred to as the RSC), or the passport officer of the owners' partnership, hostel, or the head of the organization in charge of house maintenance.
It is necessary:
provide a citizen's birth certificate;
provide 4 photographs made in accordance with the technical requirements for a passport size 40x50 mm (one sheet);
fill out an application form 1 (forms and samples of filling from passport officers);
present a document confirming payment of the state fee (except for payment through the ERIP).
If a citizen who has reached the age of 14 is married, has minor children, it is necessary to provide a birth certificate of the child and a marriage certificate. If the marriage is dissolved, this circumstance is confirmed by providing a copy of the court decision or a certificate of divorce. The passport to be exchanged is attached.
Within 3 days, an authorized person of the organization in charge of a particular household provides the entire package of documents to an official of the territorial department for citizenship and migration for checking and accepting documents. The passport to be exchanged is returned. It must be collected from the same passport officer before receiving a new document.
The passport is issued to the owner in the territorial departments for citizenship and migration at the place of permanent registration of the citizen. Upon receipt of a passport, a citizen hands over an old passport and signs for a new one. The passport is handed over to its owner personally. For minors under the age of 18, one of the parents or the minor himself who has reached the age of 14 can obtain a passport. In some cases, this can be done by the citizen's guardian.
A passport with valid visas, at the request of a citizen, can be retained after the cancellation of all pages except for the page with a valid visa. At the same time, upon passing the need, the passport must be returned.
It should be remembered that in the event of a change of surname, name or patronymic, the passport remains valid for a month and must be exchanged within the specified period.
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Belarusian passport is an official document issued to all citizens of the Republic of Belarus. Since the beginning of history, he has changed not only the appearance, but also the content. What is it like now, how to get it and when to change it?
When and by whom the document is issued
In 2012, the President of the Republic of Belarus signed decree No. 197, thanks to which children who have reached the age of fourteen receive their passport of a citizen of the Republic of Belarus. Previously, this happened upon reaching the age of 16.
They receive it at the local department of citizenship and migration of the Internal Affairs Directorate by registration. Let's say you are registered in Slutsk and live in Gomel, you will have to come to Slutsk in order to apply for receipt in this city.
Are you planning to go on vacation with your child outside your homeland? You will have to issue a child's passport, even if he is several months old.
Your passport was stolen, lost, or its further exploitation is impossible due to the circumstances (for example, the visa pages have expired) - there is a direct road for a new one in OGiM.
What package of papers you need to prepare
To get a passport due to the onset of fourteen years, prepare the following package of documents:
- birth certificate;
- fill out the special application form;
- identification documents of both parents;
- 4 color passport photos 40 x 50 mm, not cut;
- documents confirming the place of registration of a teenager;
- a receipt from the bank or from the post office on payment of the state duty.
If the document is drawn up for a child in order to go on vacation outside the country, then the list is slightly different. You will need:
- application of a parent (one, any) for receiving;
- child's birth certificate;
- identity document of the applicant;
- 4 photographs of the child: color, size 4 x 5 cm, on one sheet.
The presence of the child himself is not required.
In other circumstances, the following list is needed to obtain:
- a special form application;
- a statement indicating the reason for the need to issue (replace), if any (expiration is not indicated);
- 4 passport photos, 4 x 5 cm, color, whole sheet, not cut;
- birth certificate of children under 16 years old (if any);
- if there was a loss or theft of a document outside the Republic of Belarus, a paper issued to you abroad confirming this;
- other documents.
A bit of history
Until 1914, a passport in Belarus was issued only to men over 18 years of age. Women were not given documents. Girls under the age of eighteen were registered with their dad, and then with their husband. With the outbreak of the First World War, when men were sent to the front, women were allowed to receive documents, the consent of a man was not required.
The issuance of sample passports began in 1918. It was a booklet with "Pursuit" on the cover in red and white. The recordings were made in three languages \u200b\u200b- native, German and French. The entries were as follows - name, place of registration, whether the person was married (married), bright omens and place of his service. They stopped issuing such a document in 1920, since the power of the Soviets reigned on the territory of the republic.
Changes in the USSR
There has not been a single sample since 1920, its role was performed by a work book, which any person over sixteen years old was obliged to have. At the same time, she served as an identity card. Only in 1925, a special certificate was introduced, in which information was entered on whether the citizen was married (married), the attitude towards the army, the type of activity, etc. They received it from the police. At the same time, the concept of registration appeared, but such a document began to be called a passport only in 1932. It was issued to everyone who reached the age of sixteen and was assigned to a city, state farm or workers' village. When moving to another place, within 24 hours, the person was obliged to inform the appropriate authorities and obtain a temporary residence permit. The cover was then painted gray.
In the documents of this sample, not only generally accepted data were written, but also the occupation. It is especially amusing now to see the "dependent" occupation in the old recordings. Collective farmers were an exception; they were not issued passports by law. What tricks were not used to become the owner of the gray book. The collective farmers were officially issued their first documents in 1974 after the reform.
It was in this year that the passport became burgundy and "sickle-hammered," as Mayakovsky wrote. In all republics the text in the document was printed in two languages \u200b\u200b- Russian and native language, in our case Belarusian. The data was entered manually and entered vertically, and not horizontally, as in the modern version. The document is valid for an unlimited period. It was only necessary at 25 and 45 years old to change the photo to a new one. At the same time, the count of social status was removed from the passport.
With the advent of independence
With the collapse in 1991, Belarus became an independent state and introduced its own model of passports. The Chase is back on the cover and is now blue. The validity period was the same as in the USSR, it was necessary to change the photo at 25 and 45 years old.
In 1996, they began to issue a modern passport, such as we know it today. It complies with international standards.
In 2012, a reform is carried out, and the passport is issued only for ten years (why this was done is not entirely clear, but the head of state probably knows better). A feature that distinguishes new passports in Belarus is a special form of protection - under the influence of ultraviolet radiation, a luminous fern twig and numbers of sheet numbers appear on the spread.
What information is entered
- the surname of the owner and his name (patronymic, if any) must be indicated;
- date and place of birth;
- is individual for each resident of Belarus;
- gender is indicated;
- personal signature of the owner himself;
- the signature of the person who issued the document, as well as the name of the authority that issued the passport;
- date of issue and expiration date of the document;
- information about minor children;
- a record of the existence of a marriage, indicating the full name of the spouse, date and place of registration, year of birth of the spouse or on his dissolution;
- owner's registration address.
Description page by page
The Belarusian passport is a small stitched booklet with the official emblem of the Republic of Belarus embossed in gold on a blue background. 12.5 x 8.5 cm - its dimensions. Consists of 33 pages, numbered in the corner. Each page of the passport is allocated for certain marks and the distribution is as follows:
- Pages 1 and 2 - it's titular.
- 3-24 pages of the passport are allocated for visas and stamps of other countries.
- Pages 25-28 are allocated for general civil marks and stamps.
- The page of the passport number 29 is allocated for placing a stamp, which confirms the validity of the document, the stamp itself was canceled by the decree from 01.01.2008.
- From 31 to 33 - informational, they enter the citizen's data: the owner's name, date and place of birth, gender, identification number, and its number, state code, date of issue of the passport, which authority issued and the validity period of the document.
- There is also a machine readable zone, the signatures of the owner and the official who issued the passport, the official stamp is put.
Series and number. What do they mean
The Belarusian passport has a two-letter code and a number consisting of numbers. It is these two letters that are the series of Belarusian passports. They carry certain information presented in the table. By the way, these letters are Latin.
| AB | the city of Brest and the Brest region |
| BM | the city of Vitebsk and the Vitebsk region |
| the city of Gomel and the Gomel region | |
| KH | grodno city and Grodno region |
| MP | minsk city |
| MC | Minsk Region |
| KB | the city of Mogilev and the Mogilev region |
| PP | passports of this series are issued to citizens residing in other states, and the issuing authority is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
The passport consists of seven random numbers that do not carry any information and are assigned individually. Placed on the last page in the upper right corner, immediately after the series.
There is also a personal number in the passport. If the number can change with a change of passport, then a personal one is assigned once and for all, it never changes.
How much is valid and when to change
A valid passport for children 5 years old, but the age must not exceed 14 years. In the future, the Belarusian passport is valid for 10 years, and is subject to exchange every ten years until the citizen turns 64. From 64 to 100 years is the validity period of the next passport, and if you are lucky enough to live to be 100, then you will be given a document valid until 125.
The Belarusian passport is exchanged after the expiration date by the same body. But you do not have to wait until the validity period expires, you can do this in advance.
There are also other reasons why a document is exchanged for a new one:
- change of the surname, name or patronymic of the owner;
- all sheets intended for visas have been used up;
- after sex reassignment surgery;
- it is not possible to use it further;
- found inaccuracies.
The main document confirming the identity of a person is a passport. Citizenship, date, place of birth, registration are indicated there. They give it out to both adults and children. We will analyze how to issue a passport for a child in the Republic of Belarus and what documents are needed to obtain it.
At what age can a child get a passport?
A passport for a child in the Republic of Belarus must be issued upon reaching the age of 14. If it is necessary for children of a younger age to cross the border, they draw up a document from the first months of life. Even to travel through visa-free countries, babies will not be allowed without their own passport.
Obtaining a passport if the child is under 14 years old
Passport offices in Minsk accept applications from mothers or fathers. It is necessary to provide, in addition to the application, a birth certificate, 4 color photos corresponding to the age of a young citizen, documents for registration at the place of residence, and your own passport. They will issue an identity card for a period of 5 years. But do not forget about common sense: if the photo shows a 2-month-old baby, then it is impossible to identify a 4-year-old child from the picture, which means that you will have to replace the document earlier. If a passport is issued to a 13-year-old teenager, it will be issued free of charge for a period of 10 years. In this case, the owner's personal signature is not put, and the document is received by the parent. If you need an ID card urgently, you need to pay 1 base amount for acceleration and the document will be issued in 15 days.
Obtaining a passport upon reaching the age of 14
Since 2012, the age threshold for compulsory certification has been reduced in the Republic of Belarus to 14 years. The basis for this decision is the articles of civil law, which states that persons from 14 to 18 years old have the right to dispose of their scholarships, benefits, salaries, and to perform banking operations. For such purposes, they need to have a legal basis confirming their identity.
Accommodation of teenagers over 14 years old without a passport is classified as an administrative offense, which is punishable by a fine of 2 to 4 base units. This should be borne in mind by both children and parents. If the parents are registered at different addresses, then the child is registered at the place of registration of one of the parents with the written consent of the other.
A passport for a child in the Republic of Belarus who has reached the age of 14 is issued after receiving a standard package of documentation: applications, birth certificates, passports of legal representatives, color photos, registration certificate of home ownership. Be sure to attach a receipt for payment of the state duty, equal to the amount of 1 base value.
The document will be issued for 10 years from the date of its issuance, and not from the date of birth.
Standard processing time is 1 month. There is an additional charge for urgency.
The issuance of personal certificates is carried out by the territorial departments for citizenship at the place of residence of the citizen. The teenager must obtain a passport himself. If this is not possible, parents, guardian or other legal representatives can do it.
An identical registration procedure occurs when replacing, but now the old sample must be handed over.
Damaged copies are subject to mandatory replacement: painted, washed, soaked, etc.
Documents for a passport for a child in the Republic of Belarus can be submitted by an authorized person from the organization in charge of the household.
You can clarify any question regarding obtaining or replacing a passport for a child by contacting the passport offices of Minsk, the phones and addresses of which are presented