Registration. Registration of citizens in the city of Minsk

Any foreign guest will need registration of foreign citizens in the Republic of Belarus. By applying for it, a visitor lives on a short-term or long-term basis and can apply for medical care, study and search for an employer in the Republic of Belarus. This provision is in force today according to laws approved not so long ago and has its own interesting nuances.

Nesvizh Castle, Republic of Belarus

Who should register

For all persons arriving in Belarus, a single registration condition applies. According to it, a foreigner is given 5 days to carry out this procedure, except for holidays or Sundays and all dates officially recognized as non-working by the head of the country. Upon arrival, the person must register at one of the responsible departments in the area of ​​​​future residence. Organizations where registration of citizens is carried out include:

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus;
• Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus;
• hotel or hospitality establishment;
• sanatorium or boarding house;
• economic enterprise or subject of any direction of agroecotourism.

The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

Valid reasons may include a request for registration or an official request from the receiving party. This rule does not apply to those who do not need to fulfill this condition. Namely:

• The period of stay of Lithuanians, Latvians and Ukrainian citizens in Belarus without registration can be up to 30 days, and for Russian citizens – up to 3 months.
• Presidents and senior government officials, members of state delegations and those who visit the republic at the invitation of the president or other authorized government agencies and their families.
• UN or Interpol employees entering with documents from these structures.
• Representatives of international structures and organizations aimed at interaction between powers using privileges in accordance with charters and official agreements.
• Tourists visiting the Republic of Belarus on Saturday and Sunday, on official non-working days, or those who do not plan to stay longer than 120 hours.
• Commanders and personnel of military aviation transport located in the state in accordance with the officially agreed upon procedure.
• Employees of flying passenger transport on international air lines or railway transport, if they are located at the points indicated in the route.
• Military personnel crossing the Belarusian border to conduct joint exercises.

Conducting joint exercises between military personnel of Russia and Belarus

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The institution of registration has finally been abolished - Presidential Decree No. 413 “On improving the system of registering citizens at the place of residence and place of stay” comes into force on January 1, 2008. However, the innovation does not cause great joy. Instead of the proclaimed “climate mitigation,” replacing registration with registration will complicate the procedures associated with obtaining permanent and temporary registration. According to experts, registering in Minsk will become twice as difficult as it is now to register.

FOR WHAT?

Deputy Director of the National Center for Legislative Activities under the President of the Republic of Belarus Lyudmila PANFEROVA explains the need for Decree No. 413 by the fact that the existing registration system, which developed on the territory of the USSR back in 1932, “did not meet the basic requirements and tasks that were presented: it could not completely take into account the registration of citizens at the place of residence". What is meant? “Many of our citizens were registered at one address, but lived at a completely different address. Therefore, the idea of ​​reforming the institution of registration appeared. We turned to the experience of other countries, Holland, Denmark, Germany, and CIS countries. We saw that the institution of registration, with the exception of Turkmenistan, does not exist and is not used anywhere,” emphasized Lyudmila Panferova.

REGISTRATION INSTEAD OF REGISTRATION: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?

“The main difference between registration and the institution of propiska is that propiska is a permissive procedure for registering citizens at their place of residence. Registration of citizens is based on a notification procedure. In different states, there are, relatively speaking, two systems: a notification procedure for registration - without any restrictions, and a notification procedure with certain restrictions. We cannot immediately switch to the notification procedure without any restrictions. The institution of registration is very closely intertwined with many branches of existing law: housing legislation, healthcare, and education. There are a lot of problems related specifically to citizen registration: receiving pensions and benefits, and registering those in need of improved housing conditions. Therefore, it was decided that we are gradually and step by step canceling the current licensing procedure for registering citizens,” noted Lyudmila Panferova.

The deputy director of the institute placed particular emphasis on the fact that Decree 413 establishes a uniform procedure for registering citizens throughout the country. Executive committees are deprived of the right to make their own adjustments to this procedure, which, according to L. Panferova, will deprive officials of the opportunity to “get” certain dividends at the registration institute.

“This will be a unified legal act throughout the country that will regulate registration issues. Today, the problem of registration is regulated by acts of the Council of Ministers of the BSSR, decrees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and, for example, the decision of the Minsk City Executive Committee. It turned out that each region had its own peculiarities in registration,” says Lyudmila Panferova.

Registration, like registration, remains permanent and temporary; the presence of free “square meters” per capita is a necessary condition for both registration and registration; Non-resident citizens in Minsk are not hired for work without registration - they will not be hired without registration. What, then, is the difference between the concepts of “registration” and “registration”? Deputy Head of the Department of Citizenship and Migration Anatoly LANIN tried to answer this question. – The word “registration”, which has been heard since 1974, since the adoption of the Regulations on the passport system in the USSR, will no longer exist. Secondly, regarding getting a job. There are two modes of stay: registration at the place of residence and registration at the place of stay. Duration of stay is up to 1 year. At the place of temporary residence of a citizen, you can temporarily register for a year and get a job - enter into a fixed-term contract, this makes life easier for our citizens.

ADVANTAGES OF REGISTRATION

Lyudmila Panferova considers “a reduction in the number of documents that a citizen must submit to the registration authority” to be an undoubted advantage of registration before registration. From January 1, 2008, a citizen of Belarus will not have to be deregistered when moving to a new place of residence. Having arrived at a new place of residence, the citizen registers, and the registration stamp in the passport automatically cancels the previous registration stamp.

“Entire categories of citizens are exempt from paying state fees for registering a place of residence (minors, etc.); The list of reasons for which registration at the place of residence can be refused has been significantly reduced. The quintessence of these cases is that the owner of a residential premises or premises that a citizen inherited can be registered at the location of this premises without any restrictions. I think that a positive point is that a citizen is allowed to register by power of attorney, that is, a citizen can issue a power of attorney to his representative, who will carry out the registration procedure. It is allowed to register in garden houses and dachas. Many restrictions have been lifted, with the exception of Minsk, which is the capital. It is allowed to register grandchildren with their grandparents, and grandfathers and grandmothers, respectively, with their grandchildren; adult children - to their parents, regardless of whether they have a family or not; siblings - to siblings; adult adopted children - to their adoptive parents. Now there are no restrictions on the registration of citizens in houses subject to demolition or major repairs with resettlement.” Temporary registration is carried out without restrictions and, naturally, without taking into account “square meters”; To do this, you only need the consent of the owner and his family members to register another person. With the introduction of registration, the burden on the courts will significantly decrease, since there will be no need to consider cases of fictitious marriages and divorces - citizens very often resorted to fictitious marriages to obtain registration.

The “registration” business will go nowhere. Both Anatoly Lanin and Lyudmila Panferova are sure of this. “Demand dictates supply. If a person knows that he can register not in 110 places, but in 10 thousand places, why should he buy registration?” L. Panferova answered the question with a question.

Decree No. 413 comes into force on January 1, 2008, until then the existing registration procedure remains in effect. That is, until the new year everything will go as planned. After the New Year, if, say, a person leaves Minsk for Mogilev to live, he goes to Mogilev, registers with the military - if he is liable for military service, and registers within three days.

SQUARE METERS LEFT

To register at the place of residence, as with registration, it is necessary to have “free” square meters: in Minsk this “limit” is 20 square meters of total area (instead of the current 12 meters of living space), for the rest of the country - 15 square meters. Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Center for Legislative Activities under the President of the Republic of Belarus could not answer how the developers reached these 15-20 meters.

By and large, hopes for a “softening” of the registration climate did not materialize. Now it is impossible to register in Minsk if the premises have less than 12 square meters per person. From January 1, 2008, this threshold increases to 20 square meters. And the fact that the total area will be calculated, and not the living area, practically does not change anything. In other Belarusian cities, registration will require at least 15 square meters per person.

For another four months there will be a rule according to which parents have the right to register not only their children, but also their families, if they have not had housing for the last three years and the provision of living space per person is at least 6 square meters. Registration does not provide this option.

YOU WILL NOT BE HIRED WITHOUT REGISTRATION FOR A JOB

Minsk still remains the capital of Belarus, and therefore the peculiarities of registration in the city remain. “The permission of the Minsk City Executive Committee, in accordance with the decree, is established in one and only case - an invitation to work in the city of Minsk. I would not call this a restriction of rights; rather, it is an additional plus: a person receives an invitation to work and is registered without any additional conditions. This, first of all, concerns registration in dormitories,” says Lyudmila Panferova.

“The Constitutional Court decided to abolish the employer’s responsibility for hiring a citizen not from Minsk. But another responsibility remained - for living without residence permit or registration. Therefore, the person tried in any way to “legalize” and find 12 square meters of living space in order to register and get a job,” adds Anatoly Lanin.

Now an employer, inviting a nonresident citizen to work in Minsk, is obliged to pay “compensation” to the Minsk City Executive Committee in the amount of 500 basic units. This is a lot of money, especially for small and medium-sized non-state enterprises. Anatoly Lanin argues that a person must personally find the opportunity to register in Minsk, and then look for work. As a last resort, there is another option: a person receives temporary registration for up to a year, enters into a fixed-term contract with the employer for a period of 1 year, and after 11 months and 20 days the person can come to the registration authority and extend the temporary registration for another year. The contract with the employer is extended accordingly.

THE REGISTRATION PROCESS IS CLOSED IN DARKNESS

The local citizenship and migration departments, which directly deal with “registrations and deregistrations” and on whose shoulders from January 1, 2008 the burden of “registration - deregistration” will fall, have no certainty. The head of the citizenship and migration department of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk, Pavel KHRISCHENOVICH, says that “there is only a presidential decree - there is nothing else.” There are no additional instructions on the ground that would shed light on changes in processes in the field of registration of citizens. The situation will become clearer in the near future, but when exactly is unknown.

How to register

Temporary registration for citizens of the Russian Federation is issued for a period of up to 12 months. An interesting point is this: a visiting Russian does not need to provide justification to stay in Belarus for a certain time.

However, it will be needed if the temporarily residing foreign guest wants to extend the registration for another year.

Where might it be

Finding and registering citizens from Russia in Belarus has its own characteristics. For example, a person must live at the address where he was registered upon arrival. And if he has a desire or need to change his place of permanent residence, he will have to contact the authorized government agencies within 5 days after the move, so that the necessary changes are made to the registration permit.

Required documents

• Internal passport of the Russian Federation.
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  Passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation

• International passport.
• Migration card (not required for citizens of those states where it is not required to fill it out upon entry).
• Rental agreement for living space.
• Receipt confirming payment of the state duty.
• An application, a sample of which can be obtained upon registration.
• Documentary confirmation of the possibility of traveling abroad or confirmation of filing an application for refugee status or an application for political asylum. Also, any documentary extract confirming the identity of a foreign person can act as evidence - for people with and without citizenship who ask the Republic of Belarus for refugee, protection or asylum.
• Health insurance policy for those who must be insured without fail. Exceptions include foreigners applying for refugee status or wishing to receive protection from the state.
• Permission to move in the border area - for people with and without citizenship, located in areas along the borders of the Republic of Belarus - having permission to carry out these actions.

Sample form for permission to cross-border traffic for residents of border territories of foreign states of the Republic of Belarus

Guests of accredited international missions, consular offices of other countries, representative offices and structures of international companies can obtain registration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus if foreign guests live in the residences of the heads or premises of representative offices, institutions, bodies or in residential premises for employees.

After they register for this category of foreign citizens, a diplomatic, consular or service card is issued. This privilege does not apply to foreign guests invited by them , and they do not need to register with authorized organizations in the place where they will reside.

A foreigner may visit and leave the Republic of Belarus using a civil passport or another international identity card replacing it, which is issued by an authorized government agency for the citizenship or place of residence of a foreign citizen or an international organization, with a visa permit, unless otherwise established by international agreements of Belarus.

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In such cases, the legislation provides for the possibility of judicially expelling a non-resident person from an apartment (private house) without his consent by filing a claim for loss of the right to use the residential premises. Despite the fact that the legal nature of recognition as having lost the right to use and eviction is different, the consequences are identical, namely the deregistration of a citizen at the place of residence, which allows him to be discharged from the residential premises.

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Agreement between Russia and Belarus on border crossing

There is an agreement between Belarus and Russia, according to which the following types of documentary identification cards are valid for a foreigner when leaving, transiting and staying in the republic:

1. National passport.
2. International foreign document.
3. Service or diplomatic passport.
4. Certificate of an employee on a sea vessel.
5. For minors who are under 14 years of age, a certificate issued at birth is suitable.
6. Confirmation that a foreign person plans to return to the country of citizenship and travel to a third country - for those who visit Belarus without the purpose of permanent residence with the intention of finding a job and conducting other activities in the country.

Russians do not need a visa to Belarus.