What is the use of a passport within the country

Is the international passport an identity card?

In the law that regulates entry and exit from Russia, a passport refersFederal Law of 15.08.1996 N 114-FZ "On the procedure for leaving the Russian Federation and entering the Russian Federation" to documents "proving the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation outside the territory of the Russian Federation." That is, this document does not have such a function within the country.

Moreover, in the aforementioned law, the phrase "foreign passport" is not found, so doubts may remain. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is ready to dispel them. In clarificationIs it possible to present a passport in Russia as an identity document? department said: “A passport cannot be an identity document on the territory of the Russian Federation. In such a role, he acts only outside the Russian Federation and when crossing the border. "

This means that a passport will be useless if you, for example:

• get a job;
• participate in transactions, including the sale or purchase of real estate and register it;
• receive subsidies and other payments from the budget;
• go to the bank to get a loan or open an account.

In the latter case, things are not easy. The central bank includedRegulation dated October 15, 2015 N 499-P passport to the list of documents that confirm the identity of the client. However, in practice, this only applies to situations when a Russian lives abroad and contacts the local branch of a Russian bank. Banks in Russia wantDidn't open a passport account see the internal passport.

However, despite the fact that a foreign passport cannot become a full-fledged replacement for an internal Russian one, it is suitable not only for leaving the country. Several more options are available.

What can be done in Russia with a passport

Buy a train ticket

International passport is includedWhat documents are used to issue travel documents for long-distance trains? among the documents for which they sell train tickets RUSSIAN RAILWAYS. This can be useful in case you have lost your internal Russian passport while traveling, and you still have to make transfers within the country.

Buy a plane ticket

Many airlines, like Russian Railways, allow you to issue travel documents for an international passport, including for domestic Russian flights.

Register IE online

If you register as a sole proprietor by yourself, without intermediaries, you will not need a passport. However, if you decide to delegate the process to someone, the document will come in handy. Only biometric without fail and not instead of the civil one, but together with it.

Buy cigarettes and alcohol

Although a foreign passport is not an identity document within the country, it makes it possible to unequivocally establish the age of the holder. So the passport appears in both lists of documents for which you canOrder of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation of May 12, 2014 No. N 215n; Order of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation of May 31, 2017 No. № 1728 sell tobacco and alcohol.