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AbkhaziaIn response to the question "Do I need permission (power of attorney) for a child to travel to Abkhazia with one of the parents?" hundreds, if not thousands of articles and posts have been written on the Internet, and all contradict each other, which, of course, can confuse even experienced tourists. The thing is that many would-be bloggers and pseudo-experts from tourism answer this question without referring to the original source, i.e. the federal law, but draw a conclusion only based on their experience or the experience of acquaintances, or even simply rewrite unreliable information from each other. We will answer this question accurately and reliably:
No permission from the other parent to travel to Abkhazia is required, unless the other parent has submitted to the relevant authorities a request for disagreement on the departure of the child abroad. Ie, in general, a power of attorney is not needed, period!And, by the way, there is no difference whether the child is traveling with mom or dad, according to the law both parents have the same rights.
| No permission is required | Permission is required |
|---|---|
| The child goes to Abkhazia with one of the parents, while the other parent did not submit a request to the authorities for disagreement on departure | The child goes to Abkhazia with one of the parents, while the second parent submitted a request for disagreement on departure |
| The child goes to Abkhazia with one of the parents, the parents are divorced, while the other parent did not submit a request to the authorities for disagreement on departure | The child goes to Abkhazia with his grandmother, grandfather or any other relatives |
| The child travels to Abkhazia with one of the parents and the child is not registered in the passport, while the second parent did not submit a request to the authorities for disagreement on departure | The child goes to Abkhazia with his older adult brother or sister |
| The child goes to Abkhazia with an excursion group, a school group and without at least one of the parents |
If you have doubts like "I'll do it just in case," or you read somewhere on a blog or in a chat that "We made a permit just in case, our friends told us what we needed," then for God's sake, you can get a permit from a notary, no one forbids you. But you are not obliged to do this, and the border guards, and even more so the customs officers, are not interested in it. To enter with a child, it will be enough to present your passport and birth certificate of a child under 14 years old, or an internal passport if he is already over 14 years old.
Why are we so confident in our answer? Yes, because all this is clearly spelled out in the legislation, and has been repeatedly tested in practice personally. Not once in our practice, when traveling abroad with one of the parents at the border control, a question about the availability of a permit was not even asked. And all this is spelled out in Article 20 of Federal Law No. 114-FZ of 08/15/1996 "On the Procedure for Leaving the Russian Federation and Entering the Russian Federation":
Article 20. A minor citizen of the Russian Federation may leave the Russian Federation together with one of his legal representatives, unless another legal representative has filed a statement of disagreement on such departure, provided for in part one of Article 21 of this Federal Law. If a minor citizen of the Russian Federation leaves the Russian Federation unaccompanied by his legal representatives, he must have with him, in addition to his passport, the notarized consent of one of the legal representatives of the minor for the departure of a minor citizen of the Russian Federation, while the notarized consent may specify the time of departure and the state(s) that) he intends to visit.