Is a citizenship stamp-mark on a child's birth certificate required for travel to France in 2025?

Previously, the citizenship stamp-mark on the birth certificate was not mandatory, and it was sufficient that both parents had a citizenship stamp-mark on their birth certificates. However, the legislation has now changed. In 2023, Presidential Decree No. 889 of November 22, 2023, 'Issues of Citizenship of the Russian Federation,' was signed, according to which Russian citizens are now checked for the presence of Russian citizenship when leaving the country. And if citizenship confirmation is lacking, in 2025, they may not be allowed to cross the border. The Border Service of the FSB of Russia (not customs!!!), which processes citizens at the border, has issued clarifications: Currently, for a child under 14 traveling abroad, one of the following documents must be presented at the border:

• A stamp on the birth certificate.
• A separate insert confirming citizenship.
• The child's entry in the parents' passport with a stamp and signature from an FMS employee.
• The child's own international passport or own passport after turning 14.

Please note that even one of the listed confirmations of citizenship is sufficient, and this works in practice and complies with Russian legislation. In other words, it turns out that if the child has their own international passport or internal Russian passport issued after turning 14, or has a citizenship insert, or is entered in your (parents') passport with a signature and stamp from an FMS employee, then it is not necessary to put a stamp on the birth certificate even 'just in case.' And all the stories in chats and forums from users about not being allowed out under any circumstances without a stamp on the birth certificate are inaccurate information as of 2025.

To summarize, we reiterate that the question can be definitively answered as follows:

• If you are traveling abroad with a child to one of the distant countries where entry is strictly by international passport, not by internal Russian passport or birth certificate, which is the vast majority of countries, then there is no need to worry about having a stamp at all; it is not required since citizenship is confirmed by the international passport.
• If you are traveling abroad with a child to one of the countries where Russian citizens can enter with an internal passport or birth certificate (currently Abkhazia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Ossetia) and the child does not have their own international passport, Russian passport, insert, or is not entered in your passport with a signature and stamp, then the child must have a stamp on the birth certificate.

To put a stamp on the birth certificate, you will need to contact the FMS of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to have it affixed. Usually, this is done in one visit within just a few minutes, but sometimes it takes several days (depending on the workload of the FMS department). Also, stamps are placed in some MFC offices, but this takes much longer, and not all MFCs do this.

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