In the near future, a new form of an official document will be actively introduced into our life - an electronic passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation. Where to get it? What documents will need to be provided? How often do you have to change? These, and not only questions, are now worrying our compatriots. The adoption of the bill excited the whole public. Someone thinks that we need to move forward, someone wants to live the old fashioned way. Let's try to figure out what a new generation passport is, and whether it is very different from the current document familiar to us.
What is an electronic passport?
The main document that can verify the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation is a passport. Its main function is to confirm the citizenship and identity of the owner of the document. In addition, the passport contains information about the place of registration, the presence of a registered marriage, military duty, etc. All information is presented in visual form, and this limits its functionality.
Therefore, it was proposed to introduce an electronic passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation. 2015 will be the first in the way of innovative technologies. This is a new form of an official document, which is an electronic map containing complete information about its holder.
Benefits and Convenience
The passport of the new sample promises to be multifunctional. It can be used as a bank card to pay for goods and services, transport - to pay for travel in public transport, as a carrier of information about medical policies, SNILS, driver’s license and other documents.
An electronic passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation will allow identifying its holder both in real life and in the electronic environment. With it, it will be possible to obtain a full list of public services: registration of a passport, payment of taxes and fines, crediting pensions and salaries. In addition, it will allow all citizens to use services requiring an electronic signature via the Internet.
What does an electronic passport look like?
As mentioned earlier, the new identity card will be a plastic card containing all personal information, including biometric. This data will be stored on the chip embedded in the document. The front side of the passport will contain a photograph of the person, his name, surname, patronymic, date and place of birth, gender, number and series of the document, date of issue and its validity.
The reverse side will indicate the code of the unit of the authority in which the passport was issued, SNILS, electronic signature, as well as information about the legal representatives of a child under 14 years of age. The TIN will be entered only with the consent of the passport holder.
Fingerprint storage is planned in the microchip memory. Whether the place of registration will be indicated on the card is still unknown, as this information is constantly changing. The issue of linking a passport and a driver’s license also remains unresolved.
If you want to increase the amount of personal information, a person will need to write a corresponding application to the FMS.
To protect the electronic passport from fraudulent activities, laser engraving and digital printing methods will be used.
Switch to a new document
When will they start issuing an electronic passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation? How to get? From January 1, 2015, residents of four regions of our country: Rostov Region, Krasnodar Territory, the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol will be able to exchange a paper passport with a new document proving the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation. In all other entities, the transition will begin in January 2016.
Electronic passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation: how to get it?
You can fill out an application for a new generation passport by contacting the Federal Migration Service personally or on the website of public services in the "Authorities" section by clicking on the link "Federal Migration Service" through your personal account.
To fill out an application via the Internet, you will need data from a valid passport (birth certificate), marriage certificate or divorce, and other information about yourself, your spouse, parents, as well as a photo file.
After entering all the information, the system processes the information and sends a request to government agencies. After registering the application, checking the data, a final decision is made, about which you will be informed and informed of the need to come to the territorial department of the department to confirm the information provided.
When applying personally to the FMS, you also need to write an application for a passport and provide the necessary documents for this.
In any case, an electronic passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation is issued at the place of application to the FMS, if there are no circumstances in which the issuance of a document is impossible.
At what age will passports of a new generation be issued?
All citizens over the age of 14 are required to receive identity document. In addition, electronic passports in Russia will be issued even to newborns. In the case of children under the age of 14, the obligation to provide an application, photographs and other documents required to obtain an identity card rests with the parents, guardians and adoptive parents.
Passports will be issued along with a birth certificate. They can be produced without a photograph. Placement of color photographs will be carried out only with the consent of legal representatives. For citizens under the age of 14, the obligation to receive an electronic passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation will not apply until 2019. Until this time, the issue of an identity card to them will be carried out only if their legal representatives wish.
How often will an electronic passport need to be changed
Passports of a new generation will be issued for ten years. The adopted bill provided an exception for children. Until they reach the age of 14, they will not have to change the electronic passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.
It will be necessary to visit the department of the FMS in case of damage, theft, loss or irrelevance of the document (with erroneous or outdated data). Also, a change of passport is necessary when changing the name, gender and for a number of other reasons that are prescribed in the legislation.
How long will current passports last?
Paper carriers will remain only for those who, upon reaching 45 years in 2015, will have time to receive them. Since identification cards obtained before this age have a certain period of validity, sooner or later they will have to be exchanged for an electronic passport.
The introduction of electronic passports in Russia is hampered by the lack of access to Internet resources of half of the country's inhabitants, as well as the poor equipment of organizations and institutions with devices for reading data from an electronic identity card.
That is why the current passports will be valid until 2030, but at the same time to have paper and plastic will be prohibited. In 2025, the issuance of current passports will cease.
Electronic passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation: pros and cons
According to the respondents, the introduction of electronic passports in Russia is a promising, interesting, and useful idea in its own way, but a bit premature.She raises the fear that everything will be in accordance with the Russian proverb: "If they wanted the best, it turned out as always." The residents of our country do not yet need an electronic passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.
Reviews and opinions on this issue differ. Some are perplexed how to explain to older relatives that they will replace the passport with a plastic card, because most of them cannot accept and understand many innovative things. People express a request to leave paper passports, and do not make their replacement widespread and compulsory.
Others fear that there will be a problem with reading information from electronic media. There is no hope that they will be accepted everywhere. It is unlikely that in the distant outback there will be finances to equip all institutions with the necessary equipment.
Nevertheless, experts agree that the introduction of a new generation passport will increase information transparency of the labor market. They hope that in the near future there will be no need for a work book. All data on seniority will be stored on the passport, which will simplify the processing of pensions.
What are you afraid of after the introduction of an electronic passport? What can this lead to?
After the bill was put forward for consideration, there was a lot of gossip about what awaits us after its adoption. It is believed that the inclusion of all personal data in the register of documents puts a person in great danger, since he will contain all the information about the citizen, including biometric data.
Many believe that the bill jeopardizes the privacy of citizens and creates a threat to national security. The registry in a publicly accessible form will have all the information about the population of our country as a whole. This will make us vulnerable, as the resource will become available for any criminal actions against all residents of Russia.
Specialists of modern technologies say that electronic media is short-lived. Constant budgetary expenses for maintaining the system are inevitable (duplication of information, updating equipment and servers, constant expenses for protection against viruses and other influences on the system, increasing the number of civil servants). In their opinion, electronic passports are another bottomless barrel for budget money.
