Every resident of Russia who has the citizenship of the Russian Federation has the main document confirming his identity and status - a passport. The significance of this document is high. In case of loss, inappropriate attitude or damage to the passport, its owner will have to pay a fine. Taking into account this fact, you should carefully monitor the validity of your document, as well as the passports of those people with whom work or family life is directly connected.
In this case, we are talking about checking the identity document for validity. This procedure is legal and can be carried out by any citizen. When it is committed, there is no place for illegal intrusion into a person's life or facts of espionage. All the necessary information can be obtained on the official portal of the migration service in just a few minutes, and there is nothing complicated in the process of checking the validity.
The reason for checking the document may be various actions and events in the life of a citizen.
The most common of them are:
- Needs of household value;
- Signing agreements and contracts;
- Analysis and verification of resumes when applying for a job.
Validation can be carried out in two ways - sending an online request, as well as a personal visit to the migration service. As practice shows, the first method is considered to be the most comfortable and popular. The reason that all information is available at the FMS is the fact that this is the body that issues and controls passports.
How to check your passport on the FMS website
When visiting the official website of the FMS, various services and services become available to the user. Among them there will be a tab on checking documents for validity. Given the fact that information about passports does not contain information about their owners, open access to data does not allow violations of the current legislation and does not infringe on the rights of citizens. If you try to perform a similar check on an outside site that is not related to the state structure, you can easily run into scammers.
The portal of the migration service does not provide an opportunity to obtain information about a passport belonging to a particular person. The way the site works is different.
Here you can find information about documents that are recognized:
- terminated their action;
- stolen;
- Containing incorrect data or formatting errors.
In order to be able to view the list, you will need to enter not only personal data (full name), but also the information specified in the document (series and number). So you can check the validity of any passport.
As mentioned above, the very reason for the verification may be a household necessity, based on a business relationship or the beginning of employment in another company.
For those who do not like to use Internet sites for such purposes, or simply do not have access to the resources of the World Wide Web, an alternative to online verification will be a personal visit to the migration service and write an application. The appeal is considered by FMS officials within a month, after which the applicant receives a response to his request. It should be remembered that this particular term for the provision of services is standard for government agencies.
Upon a detailed study of this option, it becomes clear that the current standard, regarding the period for considering an application, is outdated, and also requires additional effort and time, and therefore the online verification method becomes even more relevant.
Thanks to regular updates and changes to the data presented on the FMS website, the information obtained through remote verification will always be correct. The services available to the user also include the ability to download a list of invalid documents.
To check the validity of an identity document, it is enough to compare the series and number of the document with the list data. It should be noted that the information stored in the base of the portal of the migration service concerns only residents of Russia. For citizens of the CIS, this resource is not relevant.
Passport Authentication
If we talk about verifying the authenticity of a passport, then the principle of this operation is completely different. To get an answer to this question, you can contact the FMS staff for help, as well as perform the check yourself.
The security elements present in any document testify to the authenticity of the passport. In this case, we are talking about watermarks located on the second page of the passport. Equally important is the conformity of the third page of the document, which must be laminated and have the coat of arms of the state. If the passport meets all the specified parameters, then there is no doubt about its authenticity.
All information about the owner of the document is entered using printing equipment. An exception may be data relating to the place of residence, sometimes recorded manually.
The passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation can also be checked for a ban on entry into the territory of Russia. This feature is also available to visitors to the website of the migration service. This check is essential for those who plan to visit Russia. In particular, if this ban is in effect, then when crossing the border a person will not be allowed into the Russian Federation, which is fraught with a forced loss of time, effort and money, which means that it is better to make sure in advance that there are no obstacles to entering the country.
Those who decide to use the remote method for obtaining information for the first time should not be afraid of the too complicated registration procedure on the site, as well as the likelihood of fraud. As for the process of obtaining data, it is extremely simple. To access the necessary information, it is enough to follow the instructions of the system, while entering the relevant information.
