Conditions and requirements of the Russian law on registration of a newborn child

At the moment, all aspects that relate to the question of how to register a minor child in certain real estate owned by different people are quite problematic. At the same time, the processes of re-registration and sale of residential premises are complicated. Therefore, all issues are spelled out in the legislation of the Russian Federation, in which a large place is devoted to caring for children, which is fully reflected by the law on registration. Let's talk about all this in more detail in this article. You will learn how to register a child from the text below. We will tell you what documents are needed for this procedure and where it can be carried out.

Primary place of registration of a small child

Immediately after the birth of a child, he must be registered at his place of residence. This is necessary to obtain a medical insurance policy, as well as to get on the waiting list for kindergarten, and subsequently go to school and easily visit any places designated for children to study various sciences, arts or sports.

Article 20 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation states that the place of residence of children under 14 years of age is the premises where their parents are registered. It is impossible, without the owner’s desire, to register a child in someone else’s apartment or house, for example with a grandmother, unless at least one of the minor’s parents is registered in the living space. It is always possible to register a child without the consent of the owner. To do this, at least one of his parents must already be registered in the house/apartment.

A child has the right to register separately from his mother and father after reaching the age of fourteen, but he must first obtain their consent to this. It must be given in writing. Current legislation stipulates that for free registration of a child under 14 years of age at the place of residence there is no need to obtain permission from the landlord, however, there is an exception to this rule that applies only to those situations where there is a goal to register the child in a privatized apartment.

If the housing is owned, the child’s registration also cannot be challenged. The consent of all other people living in the premises is not required, since the rights of children are protected by law. A minor has the right to move into an apartment, and this opportunity is not taken away from him, regardless of the number of square meters, so there is no need to think about where to register the child. These features are regulated by Article 679 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, as well as Article 70 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation.

Each person is obliged to strictly adhere to the listed standards, since they are regulated at the level of federal legislation. Immediately after the birth of the baby and receipt of the appropriate certificate, it is necessary to undertake the procedure for its registration.

You can register a newborn and other children only in the room where at least one of the parents is registered. This has already been mentioned above. For example, you can register a child with his father. To find out how to register it, you need to make a corresponding request to representatives of local housing authorities at the place of registration of the parents or only one of them.

You must contact one of the organizations to choose from:

1. To the housing maintenance department, to the passport officer.
2. To a special board organized by a housing cooperative.
3. To a management organization or to a company that unites the partnership of owners of a particular residential building.

Registration of a child is absolutely free. There is no need to spend any financial resources, since there is no state duty for this procedure, so any monetary collection is not legal.

Registration of a newborn: step-by-step instructions

Why does a baby need registration?

Although compulsory registration in Russia has long been abolished, registration at the place of residence is an urgent necessity. Without this, a person is deprived of the opportunity to exercise a significant part of his civil rights. The same applies to a newborn. Without registering a child, it will be possible, albeit with difficulties, to enroll in a kindergarten and get a medical insurance policy for him, but obtaining a cash allowance for a child or maternity capital will be either very difficult or completely impossible. It will also be impossible to obtain, say, a certificate of family composition if the child is not registered.

And finally, mandatory official registration of the baby is required by law, and violation of this provision is punishable by a fine. However, according to the law, a fine is imposed not because the child does not have this registration, but because the owner of the property allowed an unregistered person to live in his living space. There is one more nuance here: to impose this fine, a resolution of a migration service officer is required, who would establish this fact.

But in reality, proving in court the fact of permanent residence of an unregistered person in a given living space is extremely difficult, to say the least - almost impossible. That is why there are cases when a child is not registered in order to save on utility bills. But this situation, as mentioned above, will create a number of problems for the child and his parents in the future.

Where and how to register a newborn

Registration of a minor child must be carried out at the passport office, where his father, mother, guardians or adoptive parents are registered. This procedure is carried out completely free of charge; according to the law, no payments or contributions are required.

Who is responsible for officially registering the birth of a baby?

The responsibility to register him lies with his parents, or his guardians or adoptive parents. They are the ones who are obliged to register it on their living space within a month in order to avoid a fine.

Where to register a newborn

Based on the provisions of the Family Code, any citizen under 14 years of age is obliged to live exclusively with his parents, and in the absence of them, with those who legally replace them. The place of residence of any person under the age of 14 is considered to be the place of residence of his father, mother or persons replacing them. Registration of a newborn with other relatives (grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, etc.) is completely excluded by law.

If his parents are registered at different addresses, then, according to Art. 65 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, they must voluntarily decide on whose living space the child’s registration will be registered. You can register a newborn even in a rented apartment, provided that a lease agreement with the right of temporary registration has been concluded between the child’s parents and the owner of the living space. In this case, the consent of the apartment owner is also not required.

Features of baby registration

Registration of newborn children at their place of residence has a number of its own characteristics. The registration of a child is regulated by various laws and provisions of the Family, Housing and Civil Codes of the Russian Federation. When registering a newborn, a number of additional rules apply. The procedure for registering an infant is much simpler than registering an adult.

To register a newborn, the presence of one of the parents at the passport office is sufficient if their relationship is officially registered. For example, a mother can completely entrust registration to her father if she is busy caring for a newborn. An exception is if the father and mother do not have an official relationship, occupy different living spaces, and the newborn is registered in his father’s living space. In this case, it is important that both parents be present at the passport office and the mother’s consent certified by a notary.

In this case, a baby under 1 month of age can be registered only with the written consent of the mother.

To register a newborn, you do not need the consent of the owner, other family members of the parents and other persons registered in this living space.

A newborn can be registered even if, according to housing standards, there is not enough room space for registration.

Registration of a child after birth: deadlines and documents

According to the law, the deadline for filing an application for registration of a newborn is one month from the date of birth. But at the same time, the maximum period for issuing a birth certificate by the Civil Registry Office is... also 1 month! And without this certificate, of course, no registration can be made. Therefore, understanding this discrepancy between the laws, the passport office often starts the countdown from the moment the birth certificate is received.

Attention! On some Internet sites you can find information that the law does not set any time limits and, accordingly, there is no penalty for late registration of a newborn. This provision was in effect until 2020. From December 31, 2014, as a result of amendments made to the Law on State Registration of Birth, deadlines were established in order to legalize the stay of an infant in a home, and for their violation a fine of 1.5 to 2.5 thousand rubles is provided (Article 16, item 6).

The first step in making a newborn official is always for the parents to obtain a birth certificate. Any of the parents can receive it from the district civil registry office, if they are officially registered. To obtain it you will need:

• 1. Passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.
• 2. Certificate from the maternity hospital indicating the date, time, place of birth, gender and weight of the child.
• 3. Marriage certificate of the child’s parents (when available).

If the parents are not officially married, then the father will need to personally come to the registry office and confirm in writing that he is the father of the child. Otherwise, in the future he will not be able to register the child with him, because officially he will not have a father.

The next step is to register the child at the passport office. List of documents required for registration:

• 1. Child’s birth certificate and parents’ passports with photocopies.
• 2. If the father and mother are in an officially registered relationship - a marriage certificate and a photocopy of it.
• 3. A written application from any of the parents with a request to register their son or daughter at his place of residence.
• 4. A written statement of consent to registration from the second parent.
• 5. If a month has already passed since the baby was born, a statement will also be required from the second parent stating that the newborn is not registered at his place of residence, confirmed by a certificate from his place of residence (in the case where the parents live in different living spaces).
• 6. An extract from the house register with a certificate about the status of the account of the living space where the child is registered (the certificate is taken from the accounting department of the housing department, homeowners association).

If the baby is adopted or guardianship has been issued over him, then the appropriate adoption (guardianship) documents will be required. All applications are written on the spot according to established templates available on stands in passport offices. A special situation arises when a child is registered with a father who lives separately from his mother. In this case, in addition to the above documents, you will also need: from the father - an application written in an official form with a request to register the child in his living space. From the mother - a statement of consent to the child’s registration in the father’s territory.

This entire list of documents will need to be certified by the chairman of the HOA, housing department or housing complex to which the living space belongs, and submitted to the passport office. The entire set of documents must be submitted at the same time. Typically, the processing time takes no more than three to five days (by law - from one day to a week). If officials unjustifiably delay the procedure, according to the Code of Administrative Offenses, they face a fine of up to 2.5 thousand rubles. At the passport office, an entry is also made in the passports of the mother and father in the “Children” column.

Despite the seemingly exhaustive list of required documents and a large number of instructions for this or that case, hundreds of unclear issues and controversial situations still regularly arise regarding the registration of a newborn. For example, is it possible to register a relative’s child if the parents do not have any registration? Is it possible to register a child with his father against his consent if the mother does not have registration? All such controversial issues regarding the registration of children in general and newborns in particular can be resolved in court.

It must be taken into account that if the second parent is a citizen of another state, then first you will need to determine the citizenship of the child before taking any steps to register him. And to determine citizenship, mutual consent of both father and mother will be required.

Documents for child registration

To register a newborn, you must submit the following documents:

1. Application on Form No. 6, which clearly states a request to register the child.
2. Passports of the parents or one of them to establish the identity of the child’s legal representatives.
3. Child's birth certificate. If there are several of them, you must submit documents for each registered child.
4. An application for registration directly from a child who has not yet turned 14 years old must be formed according to the basic rules, and signed only by the parents or one of them.

The papers are submitted to where newborns are registered. The listed list of documents is standard. No additional papers are required by law, since registering a child is very simple. If you are required to submit any other documents to register a minor child, you should remember that this is illegal, so there is no need to take additional actions. This can be explained by workers where newborns are registered.

Temporary registration of a newborn

If the parents do not have permanent registration, the child is registered at their place of residence (in a rented apartment, room, hotel, hostel). The consent of the property owner is not required for this.

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If the parent has a temporary residence permit, then when registering the child, the presence of the owner of the living space is also not required. It is enough to contact the MFC with your passport and child’s birth certificate.

What to do if grandparents are against registration?

Sometimes the child's parents do not have their own living space. In this case, they set the goal of registering their own baby in the apartment of their grandparents, usually where they are registered at their place of residence. Usually this room has belonged to the parents for a long time, and they do not want to share it.

Grandparents have the opportunity to verbally express their own dissatisfaction and disappointment and declare that they will not give consent to registration. This document is not needed to register a child, so refusal to register a child does not have any impact on the right to carry out this activity in specialized bodies, since anyone can register a child.

We issue a birth certificate

Birth certificate

- certificate of state registration of a civil status act - the fact of the birth of a child. This document contains information about the child's name, date of birth, and the names of his parents.

A birth certificate is obtained from the civil registry office at the place of residence. To obtain a certificate, you will need to provide the following documents: a certificate from the maternity hospital where the child was born, parents’ passports, a marriage certificate.

You can get a birth certificate quite quickly , it won’t take much time. Together with it, you will be given Certificate No. 24, which is necessary for the payment of a number of benefits.

Married couples can obtain a certificate without the presence of the other parent. In the case when they are not scheduled, the presence of both is necessary. If the baby has only a mother, she will have the status of a single mother, and in the paternity column there will be no information about the father.

Parents must receive the document no later than 30 days after the birth of the child.

Features of registering a child when the parents do not live together

Usually, if a child lives with only one of the parents, they express mutual agreement regarding his registration, which will not be temporary, but will assign the person to a certain living space.

It is mandatory to submit the father's or mother's passport along with the child's birth certificate, but in some cases additional documents are requested. The consent of the other parent may be required in writing, sometimes it must be certified by a notary. Also, in some cases, a certificate is required stating that the minor is not registered in a specific living space. It must be remembered that it is possible to register a child without the consent of the father.

The current legislation of the Russian Federation does not provide for the mandatory submission of written consent of the second parent for the registration of a minor. When documents are submitted for registration, one parent is sufficient. There is no need for two people to attend.

Sometimes unpleasant situations happen when officials refuse to register a child, arguing that they have not received the appropriate permission from the other parent. In this case, you need to ask them for a certificate indicating the reason for refusal of registration. When such paper is received, people have the opportunity to assert their rights in court to challenge the refusal to register and protect their own rights, since they have been violated.

Registration deadlines

Birth certificates must be received by parents within a month from the date of birth of the child. As for obtaining registration, there are no clear deadlines for a newborn. But since from birth a person has rights and responsibilities dictated by the laws of the state where he lives, one should focus on the Law of the Russian Federation No. 5242-1 (Article 5, 6), which states that a citizen must register:

• within 7 days from the date of arrival, if this is a permanent residence permit;
• within 3 months if it is a temporary registration.

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The procedure itself is carried out in 3-8 days.

Registration at a temporary address is issued for the period specified in the rental agreement. Permanent registration is provided for an indefinite period.

Registration separately from parents

A child under the age of 14 cannot be registered in a living space in which neither of his parents lives. As soon as he crosses this age line, he will be able to register with any other relatives. To carry out this procedure, written consent of both parents is required. In this case, the registration process will be standardized, since registering a child is very simple.

Required documents for registration:

1. Child's passport.
2. Standard application in form No. 6, which must contain a request to register the child in the apartment at his place of permanent residence.
3. Application from persons who intend to provide the minor with their own residential premises in order to register at the place of residence. This paper can be drawn up in any form, but the document must be submitted in writing. When submitting documents for registration, the presence of the owner of the residential premises is mandatory, since he must submit an identification document, that is, a passport.

If the registration of a child must be carried out at the place of residence, which belongs to the state or municipality, then in addition to obtaining consent from the employer himself, it is necessary to obtain written confirmation from all adults who live in the same premises with this person. Parental consent must also be provided separately, which confirms the child’s right to register at a specific place of residence.

Deadlines for registering a child after birth

The law of the Russian Federation establishes a one-week period for registration of a citizen. But with a newborn baby, not everything is so simple. It is impossible to register a child without a birth certificate, but it is registered at the registry office and issued within a month. After receiving this document, responsible parents must take care of registering the newborn in their living space.

Ignoring the “Law on Registration of Citizens” entails punishment in the form of a fine, which can amount to 2000–2500 rubles. In this case, the penalty is imposed not due to the lack of registration, but due to the fact that a person without registration lives in this living space. It can be very difficult to prove this fact, but there is still a risk of penalties from the state. Parents themselves must decide whether to register their baby now or, for some reason, to postpone this procedure.

Rights of a minor

In the case where the child’s registration was carried out in a non-privatized apartment, after some time, when the privatization of housing occurs, he will be able to receive a certain share in a specific residential premises. Typically, the size of the due portion depends on all persons living in the premises, since in most cases all portions are divided equally.

If a child is registered in an apartment that is privately owned, he has the right to use the housing at his own discretion, since registering a child in an apartment is necessary so that he is endowed with equal rights with its owner.

Where to register a child after birth

According to Article 20 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, minors who have not yet reached 14 years of age are required to live with their legal representatives. In other words, a newborn baby can be registered with both parents or one of them, as well as with guardians or adoptive parents.

If the mother and father have different residential addresses, the issue of the place of registration of the newborn is decided by mutual agreement. To register a child, parents do not have to be tenants or owners of living space. It is enough that they are spelled out in it. In this case, the consent of the owner of the apartment and all people living in it is not required.

The same rules apply to guardians or adoptive parents if the baby is left without parental care. The place of registration of a newborn becomes the place of registration of his legal representatives. It should also be noted that the baby has the right to a place of residence, even if, according to existing living standards, the area does not allow this.

Right to use the apartment

Often a minor child is registered in a privatized apartment at the place of residence, but does not have a share of ownership in it. In this case, there is no need to obtain permission from the guardianship authorities to sell the living space. When an apartment is sold, it is necessary that all family members be officially discharged from it, which takes a lot of time to carry out this operation with a person who has not reached the age of majority.

When selling real estate, any adult has the right to voluntarily leave the living space and live without permanent registration until a new home is purchased. For a child, such a scheme of discharge and registration is impossible. To remove a minor from registration at the place of residence, it is necessary to simultaneously enter him into the list of registered residents at the new place.

The child is deregistered and registered in a new place only when the sale and purchase transaction is concluded. If it is not possible to carry out the sale and purchase of an apartment at the same time, a temporary registration of the minor with relatives or friends is required. Otherwise, it will be impossible to remove it from registration. You can often solve the problem by registering the child with the grandmother.

A child under 14 years of age can only be registered in the premises where at least one of his parents is registered. If you are forced to register with friends, you will have to register first the parent and then the child. Therefore, this process is difficult and not always possible. Both registration and discharge of the child are carried out by officials at the housing department. When a simultaneous purchase and sale of housing is carried out, the parties agree in advance on the timing of deregistration and departure from the housing. Sometimes new owners do not mind that the former owners will be registered in the sold apartment and live in it for some time. Then this action will be carried out legally.

If there is a need to discharge a child and immediately register him at a new address, you can do this in one of two ways:

1. It is necessary to remove a minor from registration by contacting the official who is responsible for registration in a specific locality or area. A conditional mark is placed in the passport, notifying that the person has been deregistered. Be sure to immediately generate and hand over a departure slip, which contains a column for entering a new address of residence and subsequent registration. Only a week is given to register a child. During this time, it is necessary to register him at his new place of residence.
2. Deregistration can be carried out when a request is made, namely when the child is registered at a new address. That is, the registration and check-out process occurs simultaneously. To do this, you need to generate all the necessary documents on time.

To carry out the second option of registration at a new address along with deregistration, you must correctly fill out the application on general form No. 6, namely its lower part. This field is a separate statement with which you can express your desire to be deregistered at your previous address.

For a child under 14 years of age, this intention is expressed by parents. In order for this procedure to be successful, it is imperative to make sure that one of the parents already has a residence permit in the new living space. If this is not possible, you must first register a parent in affordable housing. Only after this will it be possible to discharge the minor from his previous place of residence for simultaneous registration in another home.

Sometimes it is not possible to make a purchase and sale at the same time. The fact is that it is impossible to discharge a child without subsequent registration. There are situations that involve the need to sell a home, receive money for it and, for example, move to another city if it is impossible to find a suitable option for a new apartment. In such cases, the only option for selling an apartment in which a minor child is registered is his temporary registration with relatives, which must take place simultaneously with the discharge.

Nuances of registering a newborn at the place of residence

You have prepared the necessary package of documents and are going to contact the Housing Office for their certification. In this case, it will also be useful for you to know some features:

1. 
   If the newborn is registered at the place of residence of the father, then as an additional document you will need a statement in the established form from the child’s mother, indicating her consent. In the opposite situation, a statement from the father will not be required.

2. In most cases, parents register their child after he is one month old. If you decide to register your newborn earlier, an additional application from the child's mother will be required.
3. Permission from relatives registered at the same address is not required, even if they are the actual owners of the apartment or house.
4. Registration of a newborn will require the presence of both parents, regardless of which of them the baby will be registered with.
5. The father or mother has the right to register the newborn to any share of the apartment or house.

Ownership of the apartment

To sell an apartment in which a child is registered, who has the right to a share of ownership in the living space, it is necessary to first obtain permission from the guardianship and trusteeship authorities to release him. A separate permit is also required when real estate transactions are planned, such as an exchange or a gift agreement. This permission is taken before the transaction agreements are concluded, otherwise they will be declared invalid.

To obtain permission for any transactions with an apartment, you must first collect a package of documents and submit it to the guardianship authorities:

1. A request from a notary asking about the right to conclude a certain agreement.
2. A copy of the minor's parents' passports.
3. A copy of the child's birth certificate.
4. A copy of a special personal account from the place of previous registration.
5. Copies of technical passports for both apartments.
6. A certificate from the BTI containing general information about the apartment in which the child lives.
7. Other requested documents.

Preliminary procedure

The procedure is clearly indicated in Federal Law No. 5242-1 and PP No. 713 .

Before you begin the procedure for registering a newborn, you must first complete the primary documentation, on the basis of which you can apply to the passport office.

When a newborn is born, each mother in the maternity hospital is given a certificate indicating the basic parameters of the child, including the date of birth. Additionally, the document indicates the initials of the mother.

With this document, you should contact the local registry office within 30 calendar days to obtain a birth certificate. It is recommended to complete this procedure within the specified period, since delays may result in bureaucratic complications. Next, the newborn is registered at a specific address.

The role of a child’s share of ownership when selling an apartment

Sometimes there are cases when a decision is made to sell an apartment in which the child has a share in the ownership. If the purpose of this action is to travel abroad for permanent residence, then the guardianship and trusteeship authorities may issue a permit for the sale of the apartment, which will not indicate a mandatory condition that implies a reciprocal purchase of real estate. To do this, you must submit all the requested documents from OVIR.

Usually in this case a condition is assigned to the parents. There is a need to transfer funds equivalent to the child’s share of the living space being sold to his account, which must first be opened in a bank. These financial resources can be used upon obtaining permission from the guardianship and trusteeship authorities to purchase housing when paying for its share in the new premises.

Who should attend

One or both parents must be present.

1. One can submit documents if the marriage between spouses is officially registered.
2. The presence of the mother is necessary when she registers the baby in her living space. The presence of the father is required to establish paternity when receiving a birth certificate; if he does not come to submit documents, then there will be no information about the father in the paternity column and the child will not be able to be registered in his living space in the future.
3. The presence of the father is necessary when he registers the child in his living space. The father fills out an application for himself, and the mother writes a statement that she is not against the child being registered with the father.

What to do if registration is refused?

Financial debt for rent, disagreements of relatives and neighbors cannot serve as an obstacle to prohibiting the registration of a newborn family member.

Refusal can occur only under two circumstances:

1. One of the parents does not agree to register the child at the place of residence of the other. He must declare this in writing by submitting an appropriate application.
2. The baby has already been registered with one of the parents and, due to legal norms, cannot be registered a second time. The essence of the problem here is that child benefits are paid at the place of territorial registration and particularly cunning parents, wanting to receive them twice, try to double-register the child. However, you need to understand that sooner or later this will entail some responsibility.

Please note that in our country some laws are subject to too frequent revision, therefore, when preparing to register a newborn, be mentally prepared that some nuances will change.

Where to apply and when?

Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation dated December 31, 2017 No. 984 regulates that citizens who want to register themselves or register a newborn must contact:

1. Territorial branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - passport office. It is necessary to determine which unit “serves” a specific address; as a rule, these are district police departments.
2. MFC Department - you can submit documents according to the general rules, but you must obtain registration at the passport office.
3. Public services portal - the application is submitted in electronic form, but all originals are provided upon receipt at the migration division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

If the parents live in the apartment and want to register the baby there, you can go to the passport office of the management company. There, employees will give advice, accept documents and arrange registration. Registration deadlines as a general rule are 7 days; for newborns there is no specific period, because you must first obtain a birth certificate. However, you should not delay the process, because otherwise it will be impossible to receive help from the state.

What do parents need to remember about the duration of the registration procedure? Registration - both temporary and permanent - takes approximately 3 to 8 days after submitting the application. Of course, if the parents have prepared all the necessary documents.

For the entire period of registration, not only duplicates, but also original documents will be confiscated from parents. That is why at this time it is better not to plan any serious events at which passports and a child’s birth certificate may be needed.

Parents, in addition to the registration itself, need to control the process of obtaining an insert about the citizenship of the child. This small stamp will be needed to receive, among other things, maternity capital (if the child is the second or subsequent).

In general, the procedure is very fast, simple, free, and does not involve additional visits to authorities. So parents should take care of his registration immediately after the birth of the baby. Delaying registration is undesirable, since it is on this document that the receipt of benefits depends, as well as the registration and admission of the child to kindergarten.

With the development of the public service system, the opening of additional reception centers for citizens, as well as the spread of new technologies, the procedure for registering children at their place of residence or stay has been significantly simplified. More and more opportunities are opening up, more and more restrictions are being lifted for new parents, puzzled by the question of how to register a newborn child in an apartment.

Despite the fact that using different options for submitting an application has its own, purely formal, features, the general procedure for registering a child at birth is standard.

To register a newborn, parents can:

• visit the branch of the Main Directorate for Migration Issues of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation at your place of residence;
• contact the Multifunctional Center for Providing Public Services to the Population;
• fill out an electronic application on the State Services portal.

Registering a newborn through the MFC or an Internet portal is less troublesome, since queues are eliminated, and visitors are most often received at the appointed time.

One of the pleasant moments is the absence of government fees for registration events. You only need to spend money on making photocopies of documents, or transferring authority, for example, if parents ask for outside help when completing paperwork.

It is impossible to unequivocally answer the question of how long it takes to register a newborn in Russia. In different documents you can find periods from a week to 90 days.

However, registration activities require a birth certificate, which also takes time to obtain. And if we also take into account the busyness of young parents in the first days after returning from the maternity hospital, such a short deadline for registering a child after birth is difficult to meet.

In fact, a three-month period of residence without registration is considered acceptable.

As practice shows, it is easiest to register a baby in the first month, since only a statement from the mother will be sufficient. Moreover, without registration it is impossible to obtain a number of other services that were mentioned earlier. Therefore, it is in the interests of young parents discussing the issue of when to register a newborn child to take care of obtaining a certificate as early as possible.

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The registration process after submitting documents lasts no more than a week. You will have to wait 2-3 days longer if you apply online.

Package of documents

The complete set of baby documents looks like this:

• certificate from the maternity hospital;
• birth certificate;
• registration certificate.

Before wondering what documents are needed to register a newborn child in an apartment, you should take care of obtaining his identity card, since each subsequent paper from the list is issued on the basis of the previous one.

The complete package of papers in each specific case depends on the following factors:

• family composition (full or one parent);
• registration of parents (together or separately);
• deadlines for filing an application (within the first month after the birth of the child or after).

The main list of documents for registration of a newborn includes:

• statement;
• baby's birth certificate;
• parents' passports;
• Marriage certificate.

Registration of a newborn at the place of residence of the father

Registration of an infant in the same place where his father is registered is somewhat different from his registration in the territory of his mother. It consists of the following stages:

1. Obtaining a baby's birth certificate from the registry office.
2. The father and mother must strictly appear at the passport office. The presence of both parents is mandatory, due to the fact that each of them must write a formal application. On the forms issued by the employees and following the sample, the mother must write consent to register the child with the father, and the father must write consent to register the baby with himself.
3. The desk staff sets a day on which the father should appear to them. Registration will take no more than a week.

Registration of a newborn at the mother’s place of residence

We examined cases of registration of an infant at the place of residence or temporary residence in cases where the parents are legally married. But it also happens that a man confirms his paternity, but he is not going to register his relationship with the child’s mother. And in this case, registering a newborn with his father or mother acquires additional subtleties.

Attention! If the parents of the newborn are not legally married, the father must appear at the registry office to confirm his paternity. His failure to appear will be evidence that the child will be documented without a father.

When registering a child with a mother, proceed as follows:

1. 
   Receive the baby's birth document.

2. Submit your documents to the passport office. The child's mother will need to fill out an application form.
3. Passport office employees accept your documents certified by the Housing Office. They can also collect the originals of key documents.
4. It will take no more than a week for the mother to register in the living space.

Advice! When you are at the passport office to register a newborn, put marks there in your passport in the “Children” column.

Where to contact?

Where is the child registered after birth?

The first question that arises in the minds of young parents after being discharged from the maternity hospital is where to go to register their newborn?

At the moment of happy anticipation, they were busy thinking about pleasant shopping and the upcoming birth, so there was no time left to study the formalities.

Where can I register my baby? Registration at the place of residence of a newborn is carried out in the same body where adult citizens receive registration - at the passport office . This is where you should go after the birth of your baby.

However, you need to remember that you need to carefully prepare for a trip to this government body.

Find out where temporary registration of a child is done in our article.