How to verify the authenticity of a passport?

Verification of the passport for validity is carried out not only by police officers, but also by institutions and people who are not associated with this activity. Banks during the process of obtaining a loan also carry out this procedure. It is also necessary in the transaction of sale to exclude fraud. You can verify your passport in many ways. They will be discussed in the article.

When is verification needed?

If you verify the authenticity of the passport, then this will make sure of its legality. Usually this procedure is needed in the following cases:

1. Registration of a consumer loan. Employees of a financial institution carry out the procedure on their own. To do this, they have a special device.
2. Planning a major transaction - the sale of an apartment or house, transport. Fraudsters often use fake documents to misappropriate other people's property. This category includes business partners who are new to each other.
3. Recruitment. Employers want to be confident in their employee, so they can check their passport for authenticity.
4. Marriage It is often useful to play it safe and learn more about the partner, especially when meeting online.
5. The presence of damage, typos.

These are just the main reasons when you need to verify the authenticity of the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation or a foreigner. There are several ways to do this.

Request on the FMS website

It is not difficult to check the passport for authenticity in the FMS; moreover, it does not take much time. The service is free for citizens. It is enough to request the necessary information on the FMS website. It is this organization that issues and changes passports, deals with the solution of migration and other issues.

It is necessary to indicate the series, number and verification code. Everyone can check the passport for authenticity in the FMS. After that, an answer will be provided. The check is carried out among invalid passports of the Russian Federation, for example, stolen, lost, issued with errors or with the expiration of the validity period.

When a document is not in the list of invalid documents, this does not mean that it is valid. During the fake, not the real series and number could be used. But the Russian document has a high level of protection, similar to that used on banknotes, so there is rarely a fake from scratch, usually they use ready-made forms.

Please note that documentation may be stolen or lost. Since the passport is required for all citizens, therefore, theft, loss must be reported to law enforcement, after which its data will be in the list invalid. It is important to remember that the check is for reference only.

Invalid

FMS refers to invalid not only false documentation. There are several reasons for the loss of reality:

1. Expiration - at 20 and 45 years.
2. Loss, theft.
3. The presence of errors.
4. The presence of unnecessary entries.
5. Lack of pages.
6. Damage.
7. Difficulty reading the information.
8. Change of information.
9. Change in appearance.

A document may be invalid if false information was provided by a person with the registration of Russian citizenship, and this was revealed.

Request to the FMS

Still how to verify the authenticity of the passport of the Russian Federation? A reliable way is the official appeal to the FMS. A written request must be made, which can be submitted in person or by mail.

The procedure takes a lot of time - the review takes about a month. This method is suitable when you need to obtain official confirmation of the document. The answer will be legally significant.

Visual inspection

How to verify the authenticity of the passport of the Russian Federation using visual inspection? This requires a banknote detector, such as Ultramag, which is available in commercial institutions working with cash. First you need to inspect the form, if it is new or too worn, which does not correspond to the time of issue, then this is the reason for checking the document. Check the date of birth and registration at the place of residence.

Usually, not the entire form is forged, but only some part. You can verify the authenticity of a passport by several nuances that are usually used by attackers:

1. Replacing a photo. Fraudsters re-paste it in a stolen or lost document. They expand the book block, change the sheet or remove the lamination, and then stick a new photo. A fake during inspection differs markedly from the original, because traces of glue and deformation will be noticeable.
2. Partial replacement of pages. Probably, scammers choose a simple but crude method of falsification and replace some sheets from one document to others.

Protection

You can verify the authenticity of the Russian passport by protective elements, some of which can be seen visually. For this you need a special device. The main signs include the following:

1. Three-tone watermarks "RF" on all pages. They are noticeable when viewing a book block in the light.
2. Through UV radiation, you can see the words "Passport", "Russia", "Residence", "Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia".
3. Protective fibers are present: they are red in daylight and green and yellow in UV light.
4. Metallographic printing is used, the relief of which can be checked by touch.
5. The brown strip on the last page with the original ornament and the image of "Russia", which is noticeable with the slope of the form.
6. Laser microperforation on all pages.
7. Laminated film.
8. Infrared protection.

During the fake check, blurry ink or fuzzy writing indicates. Only on the registration page can information be entered by hand.

Mistakes

Inaccuracies in the processing of the document become the basis for the replacement of the passport. It can be typos, grammatical errors, confusion in words. Inaccuracies are usually noticeable when checking the entries made with the receipt of a new passport. You must report this, after which a free replacement will be performed.

If the recipient did not immediately detect an inaccuracy, then the replacement is carried out within 30 days. After this period, the owner may be required to pay a fine (Article 19.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). A citizen is required to pay a state duty for a replacement, the only exception is if the error is identified with the receipt of the document.

Foreign documents

Where to check the authenticity of a passport abroad? You can do this on the FMS website, but only when it comes to old-style documents issued for 5 years. To check the biometric documents of a new type, you must contact the Migration Service.

Passports cease to be valid only after the expiration of their validity period, indicated on page 1. But this does not mean that the owner can go abroad before this period. Typically, the visa requirements of many countries suggest that such a document should have some “reserve” - about 1-6 months.

CIS

How to verify the authenticity of a passport of Ukraine or another CIS country? In the Russian FMS, this will not work. The service does not contain such information. But still, some information can be found. If a foreigner is legally in the country and has a work permit, RVP, residence permit, then the accuracy of the documentation is checked on the FMS web resource. There is also information on the presence of a migrant’s passport in the “black list”.

On this site you can check the entry ban for a foreigner from the CIS or other countries. The information is useful not only for those wishing to visit the Russian Federation, but also for employers who want to hire foreign citizens.

Fines

The passport of the Russian Federation is invalid on the day after the execution of 20 and 45 years. Just then it needs to be changed. Replacement occurs when:

1. Depreciation, deterioration.
2. Data change.
3. Theft, loss.

Replacement is carried out within 30 days, otherwise a fine is imposed in the range of 2-3 thousand rubles for residents of the regions and up to 5 thousand rubles for Moscow and St. Petersburg.

The use, creation and marketing of fake documentation is a criminal offense. This is stated in Art. 327 of the Criminal Code. Depending on the degree of crime, the following are provided:

1. Penalties - up to 18 thousand rubles.
2. Mandatory work - up to 480 hours.
3. Testing work - up to 2 years.
4. Imprisonment - for 2 years.

Foreign citizens also face criminal punishment. Usually they are deported to their homeland with a ban on visiting the country for up to 10 years.

Thus, passport verification is required in many cases. This procedure will allow to prevent fraudulent actions by intruders.