Quite often, situations occur when a foreigner receives an entry ban. He is given a notice or he finds out on his own that the entry ban was established according to subclause 10, part 1. Art. 27 of the Federal Law “On the procedure for leaving the Russian Federation and entering the Russian Federation” N 114-FZ.
Most people do not know what this clause of the law means and, of course, they do not know how to appeal and lift this type of ban. In this article, we will answer all the important questions about this entry ban. And we will give instructions on how to appeal it.
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What does subclause 10, Part 1, Art.27 mean?
This article of the law means that a foreign citizen has a debt to the state and forgot to pay it.
Don’t be afraid, this ban can be lifted. To do this, you must follow our instructions for appealing.
Common Situations:
- The foreign driver violated traffic rules. The fine came to him automatically in his personal account, he did not see it, forgot to pay and received an entry ban.
- A foreign citizen brought a car to Russia without customs clearance. By law, such a car can only be in the country for a year. Then it must be taken out. The foreign citizen did not do this, received a debt for customs payments and received an entry ban.
There may be other situations, the important thing is that such an entry ban can only be due to a debt to the state, an entry ban cannot be established for a debt to a bank or another person.
How to appeal an entry ban?
Step 1 Find out information about the entry ban
The first thing a foreigner needs to know is to check whether the ban has been established for this reason and which authority has established the entry ban.
In some situations, a foreigner receives a notification where an article of law and an authority is written, sometimes there is no such information, sometimes the foreigner does not receive a notification.
A much better way to find out the reason for the ban would be to check on an online service or write a request to the authorities.
You can check the entry ban through the Ministry of Internal Affairs website. Here is the link.
You must click Check the existence of grounds for refusing entry into the territory of the Russian Federation for foreign citizens and stateless persons through the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and then fill out the form.
The disadvantage is that there are only bans from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are no other authorities there.
If the site provides information about the reason for the ban and the region, then you can proceed to Step 2.
If it says that there is no data or that it is not prohibited, this does not mean that there really is no entry ban, the database may take a long time to update.
If a foreigner knows only the region of the ban, then you need to send a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they have a special form on their website for requests.
In this case, you must wait up to 30 days for a response to your request.
Step 2 Request to the authority asking for details
If a foreigner has found out the authority, the reason for the ban and the region, now it is necessary to write a request demanding detail for paying the fine.
Yes, for the ban to be lifted, the foreigner must pay a fine. We will talk about a separate situation with a car that has not cleared customs below.
A foreigner cannot know the payment details, so they must be requested from the authorities.
The request must be in writing. There are no requirements for it, but it must be understandable to government officials. Let’s give an example of a request.
In the section describing the basic facts, it is necessary to talk about the situation, that an entry ban has been established, that the foreigner wants to pay a fine and agrees to the processing of personal data.
In the requirements section, we write that we ask you to provide details for paying the fine by email.
In the application you need to add a scan of your passport with a notarized translation.
The request can be sent through the contact form on the authorities’ website. Below we will provide links.
- Send it to the FSB using this
- Ministry of Internal Affairs – follow this
- Federal Customs Service is
- If the tax service, then
The response period for a request is up to 30 days, they may respond earlier.
Step 3 Pay your debt
The foreigner has received the details, now he needs to pay a fine. You can do this through a bank in Russia or through an application on your phone or ask someone you know in Russia to pay the fine.
Be sure to keep the receipt for payment of the debt.
Step 4 Write to the authorities that the debt has been paid
The debt has been paid, now you need to write to the authorities about it.
We write the application according to the same rules that we wrote about the request.
An example application is at the link.
You can submit it through the contact form on the government website. We have provided links to them above.
It is necessary to attach to the application a scan of your passport with a notarized translation, a receipt for payment of the debt and the previous response from the government authority.
Within 30 calendar days you will receive a response that the ban has been lifted. You can be happy, but you shouldn’t enter Russia right away, it takes time for the database of authorities to be updated. Usually it is about 30 days.
Entry ban due to a vehicle not cleared through customs
We talked about this situation earlier.
A foreign citizen brought a car to Russia without customs clearance. By law, such a car can only be in the country for a year. Then it must be taken out. The foreign citizen did not do this, received a debt for customs payments and received an entry ban.
An unpaid customs payment is also a debt to the state and may result in an entry ban.
However, paying it off is not always profitable, because the size of the debt can be from 250,000 rubles to several million rubles, and a foreigner may not have that kind of money.
But there is a way out. According to Art. 82 Federal Law No. “On Customs Regulation in the Russian Federation” such a debt is recognized as hopeless after 3 years from the moment the entry ban was established.
To use this opportunity, a foreigner must find out the date of the ban. Such a ban is established by the Federal Customs Service.
A request must be sent asking for information about the entry ban.
- Write to the customs service
- We have left an example of such a request
The response period is up to 30 days.
As soon as the customs service has responded to the request, and if 3 years have passed since the entry ban was established, then you need to write an application to the customs service with a demand to lift the entry ban, since the period has passed and the debt has been declared hopeless.
An example application is here.
Next, you need to wait and be happy that the entry ban has been lifted.
Conclusion
Often a ban on entry due to debt surprises foreigners, they do not know what to do or how to enter Russia.
Don’t panic, the law provides for the possibility of lifting the ban, and we talked about it in the article. Follow our advice and everything will be fine.