Application for loss of driver's license

This article will talk about the unpleasant situation that some car owners have to face, namely the loss of their driver’s license. At the same time, the mood is spoiled both by the loss of the document itself and by the recovery procedures that need to be done in the future.

In this case, it does not matter what happened to the old ID: whether it was lost due to negligence, stolen by your ill-wishers, or lost due to a natural disaster.

The main task of the driver in any case is the timely restoration of lost rights, because Without this document, driving vehicles is impossible.

Let's consider the actions that need to be taken in 2021 to restore a driver's license if lost:

• What to do if you lose your driver's license?
• Obtaining a temporary permit to drive a car.
• Driver's license restoration: Where to go?
• What documents are needed?
• What is the price?
• Receiving a discount.
• Exams passage.

To begin with, I would like to note that a driver’s license, like all other personal documents, must be stored in a sufficiently secure place to minimize the possibility of its loss or theft. However, this phrase is little consolation for a person who has already lost his rights and does not know what to do.

What to do if you lose your driver's license?

The first action that needs to be taken in the absence of a driver’s license, no matter how paradoxical it may sound, is that you need to make sure whether the license is really missing .

Try to remember where and under what conditions you last saw or could use a document, examine the relevant places:

• clothing pockets;
• bags and wallets;
• vehicle interior;
• shelves and bedside tables where documents, keys, phones, etc. are usually stored.

Don’t be surprised, but I know of dozens of cases where a driver’s license simply fell under a car seat or behind a sofa, and was found only after receiving a duplicate from the traffic police.

If the driver can find the license on his own, he will save on paying the state fee and will not lose at least one day of time. In general, it will be much more effective to “rummage” through the entire apartment than to immediately contact the examination department of the traffic police.

Naturally, it makes sense to search for rights only if you have lost them. If the document is stolen and you are sure of it, then there is no point in looking for it under the chest of drawers.

If your driver's license is stolen, you can contact the nearest police station with a corresponding statement. Whether to do this or not is up to you. In this case, I can only say that such an appeal will take up your time, and whether it will lead to any results is a big question.

If the lost license was not found on your own, you must contact the traffic police to obtain a new document.

Stages of restoring a driver's license if lost

The procedure for obtaining a new driver's license after loss will take several weeks, provided that the traffic cops do not have any additional questions. It consists of the following simple steps:

• Collection of necessary papers and certificates;
• Filling out an application;
• Drawing up an explanatory note regarding the loss of the certificate;
• Payment of a single state duty.

You must go through all the listed steps to restore lost rights in strict order. Otherwise, the inspector will refuse to issue you a new driving license.

Driver's license restoration:

Where to contact?

The first important question is where you can restore your driver’s license if it is lost. Currently, this can be done in any traffic police department in the country:

3. Conducting examinations for persons permanently residing in the Russian Federation, issuing Russian national and international driver’s licenses and exchanging foreign driver’s licenses are carried out in the departments of the State Traffic Inspectorate at the place of application of these persons.

Conducting examinations for persons temporarily residing or temporarily staying on the territory of the Russian Federation, issuing Russian national and international driver's licenses and exchanging foreign driver's licenses are carried out in departments of the State Traffic Inspectorate located within the constituent entity of the Russian Federation in which these persons temporarily reside or are temporarily staying.

In this case, it does not matter whether you have registration at your place of residence (propiska) in the selected subject of the Federation. Rights will be restored in any case.

What documents are needed?

To restore a driver’s license to replace a lost one, you must provide the traffic police with the documents listed in paragraph 30 of the rules for conducting examinations for the right to drive vehicles and issuing driver’s licenses:

30. To issue a Russian national driver's license to replace a previously issued Russian national driver's license, the applicant provides the following documents:

a) statement; b) passport or other identity document; c) medical report. In the cases provided for in subparagraphs “b” - “d” and “f” of paragraph 29 of these Rules and subparagraph “d” of this paragraph, a medical report is provided at the request of the applicant; d) Russian national driver's license (if available); e) diplomatic, consular, service cards or certificates issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation - in the case where the applicants are employees of diplomatic missions and consular offices of foreign states in the Russian Federation and members of their families, employees of international organizations and their representative offices accredited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and members of their families; f) a document confirming the availability of a benefit for paying state duty - for persons who, in accordance with the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, have a benefit for paying state duty.

Statement. In this case, the application must indicate that you are asking for a driver’s license to replace the lost/stolen one. Detailed information on completing the application is provided in this article.

A passport is necessary so that employees can verify that it is the driver who is applying to obtain a license.

A medical certificate currently not required . You can find out more about this in the article “Cancellation of a medical certificate when replacing rights.”

However, the certificate can be provided to the traffic police at the driver's request . If there is a certificate, new rights are issued for the full term, i.e. for 10 years.

Driver's license. It will not be possible to provide this document to the traffic police, as it is lost.

A document confirming completion of training in 2021 is not required, because... all information about issued rights is contained in the traffic police database. However, if the license was issued a long time ago, it makes sense to take your driver’s card with you.

In this case, we are talking about the loss of rights issued 20 or more years ago, when the traffic police did not yet use databases.

Such cases are quite rare, because licenses are valid for 10 years and 99 percent of drivers make changes in a timely manner.

What is the price?

In addition to the documents listed above, to obtain a new certificate you will need to pay the appropriate state fee:

431) for issuing a national driver’s license, including replacing a lost or unusable one:

made from plastic-based consumables - 2,000 rubles;

made from new generation plastic-based consumables - 3,000 rubles;

In 2021, only plastic driver's licenses will be issued in the Russian Federation. At the same time, for issuing a new generation document (with a built-in storage medium) you will have to pay 3,000 rubles, for issuing ordinary plastic licenses - 2,000 rubles .

Receiving a discount

When restoring your ID through the government services portal, you can get a 30 percent discount on the state fee. Those. The production of a driver's license in this case will cost 1,400 rubles . The discount is valid from January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2023. You can find out more about it in this article.

Please note that the document confirming payment of the state fee is not in the list above, but I recommend taking it with you. The fact is that before issuing a license, the traffic police inspector must receive information about the payment through the system of interdepartmental interaction. However, in practice, electronic failures are possible, the payment may not be processed in time, etc. This, in turn, may cause a delay in the restoration of the ID. So take your payment receipt with you, it's easy.

Once all documents have been submitted, you must wait for the new driver's license to be issued.

Exams

you do not need to take qualifying exams , i.e. You can forget about traffic rules exam tickets at this stage with a clear conscience.

What data is included in the application for loss of rights?

The application form for loss of driver's license is filled out in any form. However, there are a number of mandatory data that must be included in the application. According to the established requirements, the application must contain:

• name of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate-MREO (full form) selected for submitting the application
• last name, first name, patronymic (entering initials will be considered an error)
• day, month, year and place of birth
• registration address, actual residence
• series, number, date of issue of civil passport
• VU series and number, list of open categories and place of receipt

The regulations also provide for a list of papers that will be attached to the form, entering the date of drawing up the application for the loss of a driver’s license and the signature of the applicant.

The following table contains information about the address details of the State Traffic Inspectorate departments, their office hours and contact telephone numbers:

On the map below you can see the details of the location of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate-MREO:

For how long is a new certificate issued?

The new driver’s license will differ from the stolen one only in that the word “Duplicate” will be entered in the special notes column. The rights will be valid until exactly the same date as the previous ones. Those. restored rights are issued not for 10 years, but for a shorter period .

Starting from April 4, 2021, it is possible to obtain a renewed certificate for the full term, i.e. for 10 years . To do this, you need to provide a medical certificate to the traffic police.

Required documents

To restore your stolen rights, you will need to provide a package of documents. Their list is reflected in paragraph 30 of paragraph 3 of the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1097 of October 24, 2014. The citizen is required to include a completed application and a civil passport in the package of papers. However, the need for additional documents is not indicated.

However, if a person decides to indicate loss as the reason for the loss of a driver’s license, representatives of the state traffic inspectorate may require that they write an explanatory note indicating the circumstances of the loss.

There is no need to provide an examination card or medical certificate. Papers are provided at the driver's request. A similar rule applies to receipts for payment of state fees. However, funds will have to be deposited in any case. License shooting is carried out directly on site.

If a citizen nevertheless filed a statement with the police and insists to us that his driver’s license was stolen, in order to restore the license, they may require a decree to initiate a criminal case.