Many people believe that if both parents have Russian citizenship, then the child will automatically become a citizen of Russia. At the same time, registration of citizenship is not obligatory for him - and so everything is clear, it is enough for the parents to show their passports. This is a wrong opinion. How to obtain citizenship for a child, and why does he need it?
Many people learn about the need to apply for citizenship for a child at the time of registration of documents for a trip abroad. As a result, the trip is postponed, since the certificate of citizenship is one of the first data required to travel abroad.
A document confirming the existence of citizenship is required mainly when traveling abroad. If your plans do not include traveling abroad with a child until he reaches the age of fourteen, you may not think about obtaining citizenship.
Receiving a Russian passport at the age of fourteen, he will receive it automatically - the passport will be stamped.
However, it would be more precautionary, of course, to issue citizenship to the child immediately after his birth. A lot can change in fourteen years - and if, for example, your financial situation does not change, then the child can go abroad and independently - to a competition from a music school, receiving a prize ticket for winning the Olympiad, etc. You rush to issue him a passport - and you will have to deal with unnecessary troubles.
You will still need to solve the issue of registration of a birth certificate, registration, so take care of citizenship at the same time - now the procedure for its registration has been greatly simplified.
Several years ago, this procedure was still complicated, like other paperwork. At the time of 2011, the changes in this process are as follows: the issuance of citizenship inserts to children who do not have a passport (up to 14 years old) was stopped, the procedure was simplified to a stamp in the parents' passport about the child's citizenship.
Now, in order to obtain citizenship, a child must present the originals and photocopies of the passports of the parents (or guardians) and the child's birth certificate.
The parents' passports are stamped with the child's citizenship - and the whole procedure takes a few minutes.
Importantly, previously received citizenship inserts remain valid until the child receives a passport.
