How to check the passport for validity?

Passport is recognized as the main document of a citizen of the country. Sometimes it needs to be checked for validity in order to confirm the partner's reliability in the transaction, as well as in solving various issues. How to check your passport? This work is done in several ways, you only need to choose the right one. Even if the document is issued by the ATS or the FMS, you can check your passport by any of the options.

Causes of invalidity

Among the reasons for the invalidity of the passport are:

• Refusal to issue a document after 20 or 45 years;
• Damage to the passport;
• Change of surname, unwillingness to issue a new document;
• Change of sex, refusal to change the passport.

The validity period of the passport is established by law. If any of the causes occur, the documents are submitted within 1 month. After this period, the passport is considered invalid. If it was stolen, this should be reported to the police. If an untimely document is replaced with a new one, a fine is imposed.

Online Check

This method is the simplest. To check the passport for validity it is possible with the help of the official site of the Federal Migration Service of Russia. Under current legislation, invalid documents are not protected. To perform the operation, it is necessary to visit the site, select the "Services" section, and then "Check on the list of invalid Russian passports". Then you need to do the following:

• Enter a series of passports ;
• Then the number;
• To collect caches.

After that, click "Send Request". Previously, it was necessary to enter the date of issuance of the passport, but now this is not. After processing the application, the system does not issue all the data, it only indicates whether the document is invalid or not.

On the site there is a list of invalid documents, through which you can check the available information. Based on the FMS data, the lists are updated every day automatically, but the absence of a passport in the invalid list does not give a full guarantee.

In addition to this site, there are many resources on the Web that are suitable for verifying the validity of the document. But the information is transferred from official sources and may not be updated continuously, so there can be no complete confidence in them.

Statement

You can personally apply to the FMS body. How to check the passport in this way? It is necessary to write an application, which specifies such data as:

• The name of the authority in which the passport is required;
• Information about the applicant;
• In the main part of the application it is necessary to write about the requirement to provide information on passport verification;
• In the end, the date and signature are indicated.

There are no additional requirements for drawing up an application. Write it should be in the usual form. Samples of filling are on the Internet, as well as in the FMS. The application is processed within a month, and then the requested information is provided. It should be noted that the absence of a document in the invalid database does not provide an absolute guarantee.

Self-check

There are signs on which it will be possible to distinguish a valid document from an invalid document. How to check the passport yourself? It is necessary to examine the external parameters of the document. All pages should be created on paper with a government sign. You also need to focus on the following parameters:

• Through the ultraviolet light must be visible wavy inscriptions: along all sheets is located "FMS of Russia", if the passport was issued before 2006, the "Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia";
• The phrase "FMS of Russia" comes to the photo, and from the second such may not be;
• On the 3rd page, through the ultraviolet, the inscriptions "Passport" and "Russia" are visible, as well as the coat of arms;
• All data are typed in a typewritten manner, a record of the residence permit and the issued passport can be entered by the FMS manually;
• Near the photo through the ultraviolet a pattern is visible;
• Pages are stitched using special threads, because of which you can not change pages without visible signs;
• Sheets should be the same key;
• The paint in a valid passport can not burn out or smear.

It is on these grounds that you can confirm whether the document is valid or not. By several criteria at once you can identify a fake.

Verify information

In addition to visible signs, the document should be identified for the authenticity of the data. Now they issue passports of the Russian Federation in 1997. Until 2006, they were provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and then by the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation. Differences in the visible characteristics they do not have, so the document can check the passport number, as well as other parameters:

• The main spread contains the number, place of issue of the document, the age of the citizen;
• On the sheet with the registration of important information will not be, because a person can be registered in a place that is different from the actual one;
• You need to look at the page with the marriage and the children: even if the document is valid, the FMS body may not put the seal;
• The last leaflet includes information about the issued document: it is necessary to look at the passport code that was issued before.

Verification of information can be carried out by various bodies on request. This will determine the validity of the document.

Checking the passport of a non-resident

A common question is how to check the passport of a citizen of another country. In the FMS there is no such information, therefore for citizens this information is not available, even if a foreigner lives in Russia for some time. But many countries have their own online resources, through which documents are checked.

Passports of people from other states can also have similar protective features, for example, watermarks, inscriptions, seals. Some countries practice the issuance of electronic passports, because of which counterfeiting is impossible.

international passport

There is a document that is intended for travel to other countries. How to check the passport for validity? The Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation allows you to find information of an old passport. To determine the validity of new documents will be obtained only when applying to the FMS.

In addition to the passport, other documents are checked on the site of this service. Among them are working patents, permission to enter different countries, licenses. The service can be used by all comers.