Registration of a passport requires the collection of a large number of certificates and documents, and in the confusion it often happens that a paid receipt, even if not through your fault, contains an error. In this case, the funds do not reach the addressee, and upon receipt of the passport, you are asked to provide a newly paid receipt. It is quite possible and even necessary to return money on the first, incorrectly paid receipt.
Instructions
Step 1
To begin with, you will have to go to the bank branch where you first paid the fee for obtaining a passport. Provide the bank specialist with a copy of the incorrectly executed receipt and fill out an application for the refund of the paid duty.
Step 2
The bank employee must send a request for the status of the transfer to the head office, and after three weeks you will be able to receive the payment order and the bank's response to your request.
Step 3
If the money for any reason was not transferred to the account of the correspondent bank and remained in your bank, you can return the overpaid amount on the spot.
Step 4
If the funds were nevertheless transferred to the account of the receiving organization, that is, the FMS, you will be given a copy of the payment order.
Step 5
With this copy, you will have to contact your local FMS office. In the same place where you issued your passport, so that the specialist put a mark on the receipt that it is invalid and you did not use the money paid for it.
Step 6
A receipt with a mark of its invalidity and a payment order must be submitted to the main department of the Federal Migration Service for your region and fill out the corresponding application. In addition to the above documents, take your passport and a copy of bank details with you to transfer funds to your account.
Step 7
If you don't have an open bank account, get a passbook. It can be issued at any branch of Sberbank in just 10 minutes upon presentation of a passport. Also, to open an account, you will need to make a minimum contribution of 10 rubles.
Step 8
The decision of the FMS to return the overpaid amounts must be made within one month from the date of submission of the application.
