Because of what you may not be allowed abroad

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Travel abroad will be canceled due to expired passport, debt or access to government secrets.

Possible reasons

1. You have debts

An obstacle for traveling abroad can be arrears in alimony, payments for housing and communal services, traffic police fines, and so on. A dangerous situation becomes when information about non-payment gets to the bailiffs and they open enforcement proceedings.

According to the law, in order to become restricted to travel abroad, you need to accumulate a debt of 10 thousand rubles for:

• alimony;
• compensation for harm caused to health;
• compensation for damage in connection with the death of the breadwinner.

For the rest of non-payment, a threshold amount of 30 thousand rubles is determined.

If you do not pay debts within two months from the date of the final date of their voluntary repayment, 10 thousand will be enough to forget about other countries.

For traffic fines, the procedure is slightly different. 70 days after the violation (60 days for payment and 10 for appeal), the fine for delay increases - up to 1 thousand rubles, if we are talking about small fines, or twice - with amounts of 500 rubles and above and is transferred to the FSSP. Then 7% of the performance fee will be added to it, but this amount, again, cannot be less than 1,000 rubles. Accordingly, small non-payments are transformed into significant ones.

The bailiffs can also issue an order banning the exit due to non-fulfillment of non-property requirements. For example, if you are forcibly evicted, and you are in no hurry to collect things, be prepared for problems at the border.

2. A minor is traveling with you

A child can cross the border almost without hindrance if traveling with a parent, guardian, guardian or adoptive parent. But you must prove your status with an appropriate document, such as a birth certificate.

And be prepared for the fact that at the control of the border guard officer will ask the child who he is "this aunt" and where you are going. Therefore, it is better to instruct the children in advance. But do not memorize the answers, it will look much more suspicious.

Contrary to myths, the consent of the other parent is not required.

However, he can prohibit the child from traveling abroad if he submits a statement of disagreement with the Office of Migration or the Border Service in advance. But it can also be challenged in court.

If you are not a parent, guardian, trustee or adoptive parent, take care of obtaining a notarized consent for the children to travel abroad from their official representatives. The document indicates the countries of destination and the validity period.

3. You have problems with your passport

No international passport

With an internal passport, a Russian citizen can now only enter Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. To visit other countries and, accordingly, leave your own, you will need one of these documents:

• international passport;
• diplomatic passport;
• service passport.

The last three categories of documents are issued for work or family members of a person with diplomatic immunity. But almost everyone can get a passport. But there are several reasons why you can only spend your next vacation in Russia:

• You have security clearance. If your employment contract stipulates admission to classified information that is equivalent to state secrets, the border is locked for you. The maximum period during which you will not be able to travel abroad is 10 years from the day you stop working with important data, but it is usually much shorter.
• You are under investigation. If you are suspected or accused of committing a crime, you will have to wait for a court decision. It depends on him where you go next: abroad or by stage.
• You have an outstanding criminal record. It is the basis for refusal to issue a passport. If the term is conditional, it is worth waiting for its expiration, since an attempt to travel abroad can be regarded as an escape and entail a more serious punishment. For grave crimes, the conviction is canceled 8 years after serving the sentence, for especially grave crimes - 10 years, for mild and medium crimes - after 1–3 years. You can remove it earlier - at the request of the court and with impeccable behavior. If the court sentenced you to a fine or correctional labor, you can apply for a passport immediately after fulfilling your obligations.
• You are a soldier. If you are called up for urgent military or alternative service, you will not be given a passport until demobilization. The rest of the military and employees of departments whose activities are equated to military service will need permission from the command.
• You work for the FSB. An employee of the Federal Security Service will have to at least wait until the end of the contract, but the term of the travel ban may increase due to access to classified documents.
• You are bankrupt. If you are undergoing bankruptcy proceedings, the prohibition will remain in effect until the insolvency is closed or the insolvency proceedings are terminated.
• You have indicated false data in the passport application form. If you lied in the documents when submitting a passport, be prepared for refusal.

In most of these cases, you will not only not be given a new passport, but will also take away the existing one, as, for example, in the case of admission to the state secret. But even if you have the document in your hands, the border guards have information about the restriction of your rights to travel abroad.

Expired passport

If you have a passport, check the dates of its validity. With an expired document, you will not be released from the country.

Spoiled passport

If a child has colored your document, it should be replaced immediately. Passport, not a child's, of course.

Checklist: what to check before the trip

1. International passport

Examine the document carefully. It is fine, if there are no extraneous marks on its pages, the lamination layer is securely attached to the page with the photo, and its validity has not expired.

2. Absence of a ban on the child's travel abroad

The competent authorities are not obliged to notify the second parent if the first one declares its disagreement with the child's departure abroad, so you will have to find out about this yourself. Contact the Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the border service.

3. Notarized consent for the child to travel abroad

If you are traveling with someone else's child, make sure that there are no mistakes in the notarial consent, the country where you are going is indicated. Also, the document should not be overdue.

4. No debts

You can find out if you have a debt at the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP), you only need a surname, name and patronymic.

Information from the FSSP can also be obtained from "Gosuslugi".

It is also worth checking debts for traffic fines there. You can pay for them in the same section with a 50% discount.

Deal with debts in advance, do not postpone it until the last moment, so that information about the lifting of the ban can reach the border service. In advance - this is not less than 10 days before departure, and better still earlier.