The absence of a military ID card will be grounds for denying a passport. The Ministry of the Interior stated that the lack of a military ID card for a man of military age may result in a refusal to receive documents for a foreign passport. Also, the list of reasons for refusal includes problems with the internal passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation - for example, it has expired or is invalid. Also, the Ministry of the Interior stated that documents for a foreign passport will not be accepted if the person does not have a photocopy in an appropriate format, the application contains incorrect information or mistakes have been made or the forms for filling it out are not taken into account.