Dual citizenship and army service

[Renee Stillings]

It is important to remember two things:

1. The US Embassy is not able to assist with anything if the individual
involved has entered on a Russian passport. It does not matter that they
hold a US passport. What matters is what passport they entered on.

2. Even if entering on a Russian passport, local registration is necessary -
for the same reason that any Russian visiting Moscow has to show temporary
registration. There is some exception that many Russians use involving
holding return tickets out of Moscow for 90 days or less from the date of
arrival, but I am not 100% sure how that works. But technically Russians
also have to register within 3 days. The university where these students
will be studying should be able to handle that since they do that for any of
their own inogorodniki studying there. Any Russian with a foreign passport
should only have a zagran Russian passport remaining, meaning there is no
longer a propiska. So even if they were originally from Moscow, they no
longer are a resident there without their internal passport and propiska.

Renee

...
I have another one who has no registration in Russia (he was rejected
Russian visa yesterday and he will enter Russia with his Russian foreign
passport). He has no internal passport that means no one will search him at
his address (which he does not have).
I hope American passports will help them both.
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