Living and working legally, having moved to a new city, is possible if you register on the spot. This fully applies to the cultural capital of Russia - St. Petersburg.
How to move officially?
On the territory of the Russian Federation there are two cities most attractive to migrants and emigrants - Moscow and St. Petersburg. Here salaries are high, there is a lot of free housing, vacancies are presented in abundance. Migrants are well aware that the opportunities in St. Petersburg are much wider than, for example, in Naberezhnye Chel, Ufa, Samara and other cities on the periphery.
However, government officials and law enforcement officials are also in the know, so you can often see the following picture in the streets of St. Petersburg: a policeman stops a casual passer-by, demanding to show whether temporary registration in St. Petersburg is issued for citizens of the Russian Federation. By law, a person who arrives in a new city is required to register at the place of stay no later than the 90th day of stay. Problems with non-compliance with migration laws can lead to legal proceedings.
What about the old address?
Leaving his former place of residence, arriving in a new region, a person turns to special authorities, and a paper appears on his hands - temporary registration in St. Petersburg. At the same time, many doubt: should they be discharged from their previous place of residence?
In practice, this is determined by the rules of relocation. Arriving to work or study, a citizen needs a document confirming his stay for a certain period, after which he will leave the city. Here, temporary registration in St. Petersburg is suitable for citizens of the Russian Federation.
Otherwise, in the case when the move is accompanied by the purchase of an apartment, and the migrant plans to settle in St. Petersburg, if not until the end of his life, then for a long time. If you sell old housing at the same time, then you need to register in St. Petersburg on an ongoing basis, and even better - registration.
If possible, information should be submitted to the local migration authorities in the first week of their stay in the city. The most difficult situation is the sale of your home in the former city, investing in a new building and waiting for the completion of the construction in a rented apartment, the owners of which do not agree to make a temporary registration. By the way, not only a migrant, but also a permanent resident of the city may face such a problem. Here the portal "State Services" (St. Petersburg) comes to the rescue. Registration is carried out with his help, if the citizen has an account.
Registration Features
Temporary registration in St. Petersburg may apply:
- from 180 days to 5 years if a citizen of the Russian Federation applies;
- from 20 days to a year if the applicant has the citizenship of another country.
To register in St. Petersburg, you need to make an appointment with the migration service through the Gosuslug service portal of the Russian Federation or get to a specialist in the territorial department in a live queue. You must have:
- application drawn up according to the model submitted to the FMS;
- the original document confirming the identity of the applicant; if there is no passport yet, and a child under 14 applies, you must have a birth certificate with you;
- if a citizen of the Russian Federation lives abroad longer than at home, he can submit a passport;
- the original document confirming the fact of residence at the specified address;
- an agreement drawn up when renting a house;
- a letter from the person who provided the living space;
- additional documentary evidence that a person has the right to live in the living space where he wants to temporarily register.
What to look for
If it is not possible to personally visit the FMS, you can make registration in St. Petersburg by sending documents by mail. Notarized copies are sent and an address sheet is filled in the envelope, filled out in the form of No. 2.
To apply for temporary registration for more than 9 months, the applicant fills out form 12P, called the statistical sheet. Registration takes 3-7 weekdays.
And if the place of permanent residence?
Having changed the permanent address, according to the law, 7 days from the moment of arrival, a person must submit to the territorial service a full package of documents for registration of a permanent stay. Such registration cannot be performed by proxy, it is imperative that each citizen, who is over 14 years old, must come in person.
A local passport office comes to the aid of those moving. To get an appointment and not sit in queues, use the portal of State services. Here they preselect free time and come with a full package of documents. Thanks to the named resource, those hours-long queues that so frighten many to this day have become a thing of the past.
So, if it is assumed that you need not registration in St. Petersburg for citizens of the Russian Federation, but registration, then you need to have:
- passport;
- statement;
- a document from which it follows that a person legally moved into housing.
In some cases, additional documents must be submitted, for example:
- departure slip and military ID;
- certificate of marriage;
- confirmation of tax registration;
- statistical sheet and two arrival sheets;
- technical passport to the house;
- information from the house book.
Paperwork process
According to the law, registration in St. Petersburg for citizens of the Russian Federation takes no more than 7 working days. However, there are exceptions. For example, if a person has not yet been discharged from a previous place of permanent residence. In this case, the terms increase to two weeks, after which the passport is returned with the necessary stamps.
If a military liable person applies for documents, then he will probably have to first register at a new location. When applying through the "State Services", documents are sent by e-mail, and registration will be ready in only three days. Minors over 14 undergo a procedure similar to that faced by adults. Up to 14 years old, a child can register with a guardian or a parent.
Register baby
Wishing to officially register a child in a new place, parents rightly ask themselves the question - how much does registration in St. Petersburg cost? Please note: for self-registration, the procedure is free. And intermediaries asking for money are not always trustworthy. By providing such persons with the documents of their children, the parents are unjustifiably at risk, therefore it is strongly recommended that they resolve this issue on their own.
In order for the child to receive the correct registration in a new place, you will have to submit the following documents to the FMS or to the State Services portal:
- proof of citizenship;
- birth certificate;
- a copy of the passport of the second parent;
- the official consent form of the second parent, necessarily certified by a notary;
- Form F9, which indicates that the child has no other registration.
And if you do not issue?
Migration registration and registration were invented to simplify the search for a person, if necessary. In practice, people receive documents confirming their stay at a place other than their real address. Accordingly, there can be no question that the service is really effective.
But violation of the rules of the migration system in the Russian Federation is punishable by law. If a person permanently or temporarily lives at some address without having issued this in the prescribed manner, in the best case they will receive a fine - from one and a half thousand rubles to two and a half.
To prevent such a situation, enterprising people just go to the station, buy a ticket from somewhere in St. Petersburg and convince themselves that they can stay in the city without problems for another three months. A sort of pass to the world where there are no registrations.
It should be recognized that such a system saves from police inspections, but still it will not be possible to get a job, especially in the state office. In such places, the official registration of all employees is clearly monitored, and even personal arrangements will not help.