Personal experience: registration of citizenship of the Russian Federation to a newborn
'20.06.2017'
After we received American passports for our children, we started to arrange Russian for a flight to Russia.
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To obtain a Russian passport, while in the United States, you need:
1. Get an apostille on the birth certificate, translate it into Russian and assure it.
2. After that, contact the Russian consulate and submit an application and the necessary documents.
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Apostille - it is an international standardized form for filling in information about the legality of a document for presentation on the territory of countries that recognize such a form of legalization. The “Apostille” stamp is placed on the originals and copies of documents (this is the definition from Wikipedia). To get it, my husband spent several hours in downtown offices. In principle, everything is quite fast and convenient.
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1. With the certificate of birth of the extended form and with the signature of the registrar we turned New York City Department of Health, Vital Records at 125 Worth St., New York, NY 10013.
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2. Assured received documents in the office New York County Clerk at 60 Center St., New York NY 10007.
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3. Came to the office of the State Secretary Special Deputy Secretary of State - New York Department of State - Certification unit by the address: 123 William St., New York, NY 10038I don’t remember what it was necessary to do there, apparently, some trifle - a stamp or a signature.
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Translation into Russian of the birth certificate and apostille
Translation can be done independently, with professional translators or at the consulate for an additional fee (if I am not mistaken, they also do this). We translated for both children ourselves. There is a simple text - names, institutions, addresses.
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Russian passport
The paperwork stage at the Russian consulate turned out to be the most problematic.
First, we sent a request there to set a date for the delivery of documents, we did not respond to more than a week email. Of course, the site says that you need to wait for a response within 10-12 days, but we decided not to risk it and called them. Phoned on the second day. We were assigned a date of delivery and an approximate date of receipt of the documents (two days before departure to Moscow, the tickets from us were purchased in advance).
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From the documents:
- application;
- money order $ 10;
- confirmation of Russian citizenship;
- certification of the apostille for an additional fee;
- birth certificate (original, apostille, translation);
- the original of the valid passport of the child's legal representative and a copy of the page with the owner's photo;
- photo (35 x 45mm) of a child - 2 pcs., A legal representative - 1 pc.
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The legal representative we spoke dad. Of the benefits - mothers with children did not need to go to the consulate. Let me remind you that my husband and I are Russian citizens. If one of the spouses has a different nationality, the process or list of documents may differ.
Here I described our experience, please check the information on the official sites in advance, it may vary depending on the city and state.
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