Find out who is registered at the address

Normative base

Information about citizen registration is included in the list of confidential information.

According to Presidential Decree No. 188, these also include:

• service data;
• personal information;
• information about the investigation, trial, commercial and professional activities of citizens.

According to the Personal Data Law, people who receive this information do not have the right to distribute it without the consent of the owner.

But state information resources are in the public domain. Despite legal requirements, address information is often found on the Internet. People freely exchange information about each other and often do not see any problem in this.

How to find out who is registered at an address

There are quite a lot of ways: both via the Internet and through special services. Searching by address can be difficult if the citizen no longer lives in that house. There are both free and paid methods.

Why might this be needed?

This may be needed by both individuals and legal entities.

The most common situations are highlighted:

1. When the property is the property of the municipality, registration is only allowed for a few people, based on its size. If there is a need to register someone else in the apartment, then the authorized bodies may refuse. In this case, the apartment owner needs to order a certificate about all registered citizens and decide which of them can be discharged.
2. When purchasing real estate on the secondary market, the number of persons registered in it is of great importance. You need to know this and not pay other people's utility bills. Therefore, at the time of signing the purchase and sale agreement, you need to ask the seller for a certificate containing a list of all residents. If this is not done, then the new owners will have to contact the authorities demanding information.
3. When selling an apartment, it may be useful not only to know the number of residents registered in the apartment, but also additional information about each of them. For example, their place of residence or age.

There may be simpler cases. For example, the court must find a citizen who has been issued a fine, or needs to restore contact with a lost friend (relative). There may be many options, but they are all related to finding a specific person.

Possible options

You can find a person by their registration address using special websites. For example, this could be a special website of Rosreestr or a State Services portal. But you need to know not only the address, but also the last name of the tenant.

List of all possible methods:

• FMS;
• Passport Office;
• EGRN;
• local police officer;
• Management Company;
• online sites or directories;

It is worth understanding that each category of citizens has its own rules. Thus, the database of registered citizens is available only in the divisions of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation and the passport office.

Who is eligible

Not every person has the right to receive information, because it relates to personal data. Only its owner has the right to find out information about the number of persons registered in the apartment.

If the property is owned by the municipality, then such information is provided only to the main tenant. Persons registered in housing or having a notarized power of attorney also have the right to receive the necessary information.

The authorized bodies will refuse to provide a certificate to all other people.

In addition, if, when purchasing an apartment, the seller refuses to provide a certificate, the buyer can contact the Unified State Register of Real Estate. But you must have a purchase and sale document.

Passport Office

First of all, the passport office has the necessary information. Before purchasing an apartment, you can ask the owner to bring a certificate indicating the number of registered residents. Moreover, if the owner for some reason does not want or cannot provide data, then the buyer has the right to contact the passport office independently.

In this situation, you must first create a copy of the apartment purchase agreement, otherwise it will be impossible to obtain information. In this case, it would be best to order an extended certificate to find out not only who is registered at the address, but also information about all previous residents.

District police officer

You can find out where a person is registered with the help of a local police officer. To do this, you will need to explain to the police officer that there is a need to find out, before purchasing a home, the exact information about the person who lives at a specific address. You can also ask: are the neighbors noisy, are they registered with a narcologist.

EGRN

When buying an apartment, you need to know the list of all tenants so as not to get into an unpleasant situation. But only property owners have the right to access the databases.

To obtain information, you can contact the Unified State Register of Real Estate.

Here you can find out:

• description of living space;
• information about restrictions;
• information about claims;
• information about registered rights to the apartment.

It is this information that is partially open to outsiders. To obtain data, you only need to provide identification and make a written application.

You can order an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. With its help, they can find out the owner of the apartment by address, whether the housing is mortgaged, and the presence of third parties who intend to challenge the apartment. But there is no information about registration there.

Management Company

This organization has access to the owners' house books. Using it you can find out the number of registered residents, as well as all previous owners. BUT this information will not be provided to strangers, as it is strictly confidential.

Websites and directories

Sometimes it’s enough just to enter your name into the search bar of your browser on the Internet. You can find a person’s accounts on social networks or a directory where he is listed. In addition, if you have information about the car’s license plate number, you can make a request on the traffic police portal.

There are various online databases of information about people, but they often have outdated or unreliable information. Information can be obtained both for a fee and for free. The most famous and reliable is the Rosreestr website.

FMS

This information can also be obtained from the Federal Migration Service.

To do this you need:

1. Provide the FMS with your request and passport information.
2. Wait for a response within a month.

In this case, the first thing the migration service will do is send a request to the owner of the data, since distributing information to third parties without the consent of the owner is prohibited by law. This request will include all information about the applicant and the purpose of the request itself.

How to find a person by address

Finding a person solely by address can be difficult if the person no longer lives in that location.

In such situations you can:

1. Try to drive up to the former place of residence of the desired person and ask neighbors who may know the new address.
2. You can also use the Internet by visiting special search programs, such as Facebot, “Search-Help”.
3. You can contact the Ministry of Internal Affairs department for free, but this is only if the wanted person has something to do with the offense caused to the person who is looking for him.
4. In addition, you can go to the passport office, which records the place of residence of people.

To obtain the information you are interested in, you need to come to one of the indicated authorities, ask to make a request and receive a list of residents at the specified address.

To do this, you need to have your passport or a power of attorney from the person who wants to find out such information. The request must indicate the reason for receiving the information.

Good to know: information about registration in a certain living space can be found out not only by its owner, but also by the tenant, if this property is in municipal ownership.

Features for cities

Large cities have their own characteristics. So, in Moscow or St. Petersburg, using a directory you can find out all the necessary information about a person.

Moscow

There is a special Moscow telephone directory that can be found on the Internet. But people often confuse the concepts of property rights and residence rights. That is, a citizen can live in a house, although he does not own it. It will be impossible to find such a person at his address.

Saint Petersburg

St. Petersburg is one of the largest cities in Russia. And it is not surprising that there will be a little more opportunities than in some small village. There is also a special telephone directory for St. Petersburg. Thus, knowing the address of the house, you can find out its owner.

Options for obtaining information and its importance

Issues of population registration are handled by the Federal Migration Service, through the passport office, available in every locality in every district where citizens live. Each department of this body has a house book, which displays all the information about who, when and where was registered. However, when setting the goal of finding out who is registered in an apartment or other residential premises, you need to take into account that this can be done through several authorities:

• Federal Migration Service;
• Homeowners association passport offices;
• Multifunctional centers;
• Management companies;
• Unified State Register of Rights to Real Estate;
• Through the Internet.

A standard extract from the house register will not provide complete information about who is registered in the room or apartment, so in this case it makes sense to obtain an extended extract. This is due to the fact that in addition to the previously listed categories, the right to residence is also retained for elderly persons if they are in a nursing home, for minors in the care of the state, as well as for missing persons and military personnel after their return.

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How to use the information received

If there was still a need to obtain information, and it was possible to do this, then the data must be used strictly for the reason for which the certificate was issued. If it was taken to make sure that housing is really safe to buy, then the data obtained should be used exclusively on this issue. Otherwise, it is possible to fall under Article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Find out your registration

Sometimes, on the contrary, you need to find out the registration of a specific person, knowing some of his data. There are several ways to do this.

Via the help desk

You can find a citizen using information desks. Contact numbers for such institutions are available on the Internet.

To submit a request you need:

1. Find out the address of the information desk and go there.
2. Fill out an application. In the form you must write all known information about the person you are looking for.
3. Come on time and get information.

If for some reason they find several similar individuals, they will provide information on each of them.

Request to the FMS

A more effective way would be to contact the Federal Migration Service, because all citizens living in the Russian Federation are required to register at their place of residence.

To make a request you need:

1. Come to the nearest FMS office.
2. Fill out a special form. You will need to provide all information about the citizen, the reason for the search and passport details.
3. Apply.
4. Receive the necessary information within 15 to 30 days.

You can also find out your registration through the FMS website. To do this, you need to know the person’s passport details. Certain difficulties may arise if the passport is not in the database or the document was issued recently.

Through the Internet

If you know your full name, city and home phone number, you can find out about registration using telephone directories. But this method is considered ineffective, since only the owners are indicated in the directories. In addition, people often change their place of residence.

There are also special forums on the Internet where people help each other. For example, any social network. Sometimes it is enough to simply check the list of people who have the same last name in the account, first name and city as the person you are looking for.

By TIN

Using the TIN you can find out quite a lot of information about a legal entity. But with an individual the situation is somewhat more complicated.

By TIN number it is possible:

• find out the region of issue of the document - the first four digits;
• gain access to personal data of an individual - the next six digits;
• access simplified data - last two digits.

In order to find out the TIN number, you can submit an application to the Tax Service of the Russian Federation.

Based on enforcement proceedings

To do this, you need to go to the website of the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) and find out the TIN of a specific person. You will need his full name, date of birth, series, number and date of issue of the passport. After receiving the TIN, you can use it to find out about debts. If there are any, then you need to click on the “Repay debt” item. The registration will appear on the receipt.

Order an extract from the Unified State Register Service Online

Similar services are provided by the online service Unified State Register Online, which operates with data from the registry database. A characteristic feature of the services is that the cost of issuing an extract is lower than on the official website. The authenticity of the extract is certified by an electronic signature (digital signature), which eliminates the possibility of data falsification.

Making an extract takes from 15 minutes and depends on the amount of information that will be included in the document. EGRP-Online issues two types of certificates:

1. On the transfer of rights to an object (apartment, plot or house) which contains information:

• personal data of the current owner;
• history of transfer of rights from owner to owner;
• dates of termination of the rights of the former owner;
• the date of registration of the property with the current owner.

The cost of such a certificate is 200 rubles.

1. About the characteristics of an object containing information about:

• personal data of the current owner;
• prohibition on alienation, being in collateral;
• cadastral value of the object.

The cost of the certificate is 200 rubles.

Rosreestr website

Provides several certificates of varying length, containing information about:

1. Full name of the property owner. In addition to personal data, it contains the certificate number and the date of taking possession. Such an electronic document costs 90 rubles.
2. Checking an apartment (real estate) for encumbrances (FSSP arrest, pledge, mortgage, legal disputes regarding the ownership, use and residence of third parties). The price of the document is 290 rubles.
3. Standard extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. Price – 350 rubles.
4. Ownership history. That is, from whom the apartment was transferred to whom, how long the ownership of one or another owner lasted, the reasons for the transfer of rights. For this purpose, a separate statement is issued, the cost of which is 700 rubles.
5. Full inspection of the apartment (house) for cleanliness. In addition to the data included in the above extracts, it contains information about checking the owner in the databases of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for the presence of criminal records for crimes related to fraud and tax offenses, checking court decisions regarding disputes regarding this property. The cost of such a document is 1950 rubles. It guarantees complete confidence of the potential buyer that the seller is not planning to deceive the home.

We advise you to read: Making changes to the Unified State Register of Real Estate

At the MFC

The most popular and in demand method of ordering an extract. The only drawback is the need to visit the office of the multifunctional center and the fact that the Unified Housing Document (UZD) is issued only to the owners and persons registered at this address.

The advantages of the information prepared by the MFC include that it is free. Within 1 business day, anyone interested in the name and surname of the owner can receive 13 documents simultaneously, which contain complete information on the object.

Via BTI

Not the most convenient way, since, just like in the MFC, information is provided only to the owners or to the courts when filing a claim for a dispute over a property. The advantage of contacting the BTI is the possibility of obtaining data on objects not included in Rosreestr, that is, commissioned before 1998. Information is provided for a fee. The fee is 200 rubles. To receive information, you will need to fill out an application form, attach a payment receipt and wait up to 5 business days.

At the notary

This method of obtaining information is convenient for those who are involved in registering an inheritance. The notary does not personally own the information contained in the Rosreestr database, but as part of the preparation of the inheritance case, he collects information about the property included in the inheritance estate. The collected information can be shared with the heirs.

In person at Rosreestr

The method is available to residents of settlements where MFC work is not established and who, for some reason, do not want to use online services. The category of people who trust paper documents. Requires time to wait in line (electronic queue using pre-issued coupons). You will need to have with you:

• passport (other document);
• a completed application of the established form (issued by Rosreestr);
• a receipt of payment of the state fee in the amount of 750 rubles for the production of a paper version of the extract.

It takes 3-4 business days from submitting the application to receiving the statement.

Information about the personal data of the owner (full name) at the address may be contained in the databases of organizations processing personal data. But they, without the knowledge of the owner, have no right to disclose and issue them on a commercial basis.

Responsibility

It is worth considering that personal data is confidential, and, therefore, there is liability for violation of the right to privacy. That is why it is not recommended to search for a citizen if he does not want to.

According to Article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Responsibility for violation of privacy,” the offender may face both administrative and criminal punishment. Therefore, you should use exclusively legal methods to avoid getting into an unpleasant situation.