Organization : Ministry of Interior
Type of Facility : Identity Cards For Foreign Citizens
Country: Serbia
Website : http://www.mup.gov.rs/wps/portal/sr/
Identity Cards For Foreign Citizens:
Validity of ID cards for foreign citizens:
ID card for foreign citizen to who is authorized permanent stay, is being issued with five years validity.
Related : Ministry of Interior Issuance of Authorization for Temporary Stay Serbia : www.statusin.org/10474.html
Replacement of ID card for foreign citizens:
ID card for foreign citizen shall be replaced if it is damaged, worn out, if the photograph is no longer matching with the appearance of foreign citizen or when it cannot serve to its purpose for other reasons.
Foreign citizen is obliged to, within eight days as of the date of enactment of Paragraph 1 of this Article, submit to a competent authority request for ID card replacement.
Disappearance or loss of identity document:
Foreign citizen is obliged to notify without delay competent authority or closest diplomatic mission and consular post of the Republic of Serbia, on disappearance or loss of identity document issued by the authority in the Republic of Serbia.
Competent authorities are obliged to issue a certificate to a foreign citizen on disappearance or loss of the identity document.
Loss or disappearance of identity document is to be published in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”; expenses are to be borne by the foreign citizen.
Proceedings for submission of the request for issuance of new document:
In case of disappearance or loss of ID card for foreign citizen or emergency travel document issued by the authority in the Republic of Serbia, foreign citizen is obliged to:
** Urgently report disappearance or loss of ID card for foreign citizen or emergency travel document, issued by the authority in the Republic of Serbia, to a competent authority or diplomatic mission and consular post,
** Pay into the drawing account of public enterprise “Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia” the amount in the name of costs for announcing the document to be invalid, upon reporting of identity document’s loss,
** To present the evidence of payment of means to competent authority of internal affairs that enacts the Ruling by which the identity document is announced invalid.
** Officer of internal affairs authority delivers one copy of the Ruling client, while he forwards one by official channels to enterprise “Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia” for the purpose of announcement of invalidity.Besides the Ruling, pay-in slip copy is to be delivered, as evidence of carried out payment of prescribed fee.
** Foreign citizen may submit request for issuance of new identity document immediately upon delivery of Ruling.
Duration and extension of temporary stay :
** Temporary stay can be authorized in duration of up to one year and can be extended for the same period, unless otherwise determined by this Law or international agreement.
** Authorization of temporary stay is being entered into travel document of foreign citizen. Validity duration of travel document must be at least six months longer than duration period of authorization.
Temporary stay extension :
** To a foreign citizen, close family member of the citizen of the Republic of Serbia, temporary stay can be extended for the period of up to three years or until fulfillment of conditions for issuance of authorization for permanent stay.
** To a foreign citizen, close family member of the citizen of the Republic of Serbia, temporary stay can be extended even in the case when that citizen died, as well as in the case of termination of marriage with citizen of the Republic of Serbia that lasted at least three years in the Republic of Serbia.