It is now widely believed that if the parents are citizens of the Russian Federation, then the child does not need to apply for citizenship, he receives it automatically. The main thing is that the parents show their passports, thereby confirming that they have Russian citizenship. In fact, this is not the case. It is necessary to apply for the citizenship of a child, but not everyone knows how to do it.
Most parents learn that a child needs to apply for citizenship only at the time of departure abroad. As a result, the trip has to be postponed, since the citizenship of the Russian Federation is data that is among the most important when traveling abroad. There is no need to issue a certificate of citizenship for a child if you do not plan any trips abroad until the child reaches the age of 14. At the age of fourteen, receiving a passport, he will automatically receive a stamp, which will indicate that he is a citizen of the Russian Federation. However, it is impossible to plan either his life or the life of your child for 14 years in advance, so you should think about applying for citizenship immediately after the birth of the child. After all, the financial situation can change, and you can send your child to study abroad, or he can go to a music competition, get a ticket for winning a competition or an Olympiad, and so on. You will begin to issue a passport for him, and you will have to deal with additional hassle. In any case, you will be solving the problem of registration of registration, birth certificate and other documents, why not apply for citizenship at the same time? Moreover, today the procedure for obtaining citizenship has become much easier. By 2011, the following changes were made to this process: now there is no need to issue citizenship inserts to those children who have not yet turned 14; the procedure is reduced to affixing a stamp on the child's citizenship in the parents' passport. To apply for citizenship, you need to present your passports (originals and copies), as well as a baby's birth certificate. Both parents' passports are stamped - this procedure now takes only a few minutes. It is also important to know that previously issued inserts of Russian citizenship are valid until the child receives a passport.
