Conscripts, employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB), prisoners, or persons with access to state secrets or ‘information of special importance’, among others, are subject to travel bans under Russian legislation.
A regulation obliging Russian citizens barred from traveling abroad, including people officially summoned to military service, to hand over their passports to official entities came into force on December 11.
According to the law, adopted by the government on November 22, passports must be handed to state bodies within five days of their holders being officially barred from traveling to a foreign country. Travel documents that are not handed over to the state on time will be invalidated, the regulation says. The passports will be returned to their owners after the ban is lifted.
Russians barred from flying abroad must surrender their passports to authorities within five days of being told, according to a government rule that takes effect on Monday.
Conscripts, employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB), prisoners, or persons with access to state secrets or “information of special importance,” among others, are subject to travel bans under Russian legislation.
The authorities that issued the passport, such as the interior ministry or the foreign ministry, will keep the returned passport.
According to the government regulation, once the travel prohibition is lifted, the passport may be restored upon completion of an application.
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