Social respite from the army. Postponement from military service, all official reasons

Today we will talk about the types and types of deferrals from the army. Interestingly, I myself was not strong in this topic before I started preparing this article. However, I have already said that this blog helps me become more and more knowledgeable in military affairs. And not only.

Well ... I propose to begin! In order to make it easier for you to understand the structure of the article, I made a short list of theses at the beginning. Next will be detailed analysis each paragraph and subparagraph.

Types of deferments from the army

Deferment from the army for study
- Postponement for schoolchildren
- Postponement for students
- Graduate Deferral
- academic leave
- Second resignation from the army
Reprieve from the army family circumstances
- Postponement of the birth of a child
- Wife's pregnancy delay
- Parental care deferment
- Postponement of guardianship
Deferment from the army for health reasons
Postponement for work
- Deferment from the army for work in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Department of Internal Affairs, the FSB, etc.
- Postponement from the army to work as a deputy.
Presidential reprieve

Deferment from the army for study

Postponement for schoolchildren

Every student in an ordinary secondary school until the age of 20 is given a deferment from the army. Why under 20? I think that this is in case the student stays for the second year a couple of times.

In addition, if you have successfully passed the school final exams (USE) and plan to enter a higher educational institution, then you are also granted a deferment. Valid until October 1 current year. By own experience I will say that this time is enough with the head.

If you are going to college or technical school face-to-face training, but at the time of admission you completed only 9 classes instead of 11 at school, then you should be given a deferment from the army until you reach 20 years old for the entire period of study.

IMPORTANT! This also applies to university studies. If, after receiving a deferment, you are expelled from an educational institution in the 1st, 2nd, or any other year, your deferment "burns out".

Postponement for students

When successful admission If you are going to a higher education institution for full-time study, the university must grant you a deferment for the entire period of study. Just don’t think that if you received a deferment in the 1st year, this means that the next 4 years (and I remind you that now all universities have switched to a bachelor’s system of education) the military registration and enlistment office will not touch you. Upon receipt of a deferment, a student must report to the military registration and enlistment office every year and confirm his status and the fact of studying in this educational institution.

IMPORTANT! Postponement of their students can provide educational institutions with state accreditation. There are cases when in one educational institution there are specialties and state accreditation, and without it. So be careful with this moment!

Graduate Deferral

Postgraduate study deferment is granted to all full-time students enrolled in postgraduate studies for the period of study in postgraduate studies and no more than one year after, in order to defend the candidate's thesis. The latter is given only when necessary in each specific case.

academic leave

You will retain the right to a deferment from the army if, after taking academic leave the total period of study will increase by no more than 1 year.

Translation

If you are transferred from one specialty to another or to another educational institution and the total period of study does not increase, or increases by no more than 1 year, then the deferment from the army remains with you.

IMPORTANT! The transfer must also be carried out to a specialty that has state accreditation, otherwise the delay will “burn out”.

Second resignation from the army

If you have been granted a school deferment (11 grades), then you can receive a second deferral of study for undergraduate and specialist programs. Roughly speaking, you can get a second deferral at the university.

If the first deferment was given due to admission to a bachelor's program, then the second may be given due to continuing studies in a master's program.

In other cases, a second deferral is not granted.

Postponement for family reasons

Postponement of the birth of a child

A deferment from conscription for military service is granted to citizens:

- having a child and raising him without a mother;

- having two or more children;

- having a disabled child under the age of three;

Deferment from the army due to the wife's pregnancy

A deferment from the army due to the wife's pregnancy is granted to citizens who have one child and a wife whose pregnancy is at least 26 weeks.

Thus, the main conditions for obtaining a deferment from the army for the wife's pregnancy are:

be officially married;
have one common child with his wife;
the wife's pregnancy must be at least 26 weeks;

Deferment from the army to care for relatives

The main conditions for obtaining a deferment from the army for caring for relatives are:

the absence of other citizens obliged by law to support a citizen;
the lack of full state support for the citizen who will be cared for;
a citizen needs, according to the conclusion of the federal institution of medical and social expertise, constant outside care;
a citizen in need of care is your father, mother, wife, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother or adoptive parent.

Deferment from the army by guardianship

A deferment from the army on guardianship is granted to a citizen if he is the sole guardian or trustee of minor sisters or brothers.

Delay for health

A deferment for health reasons is given to a citizen who is declared unfit for military service (fitness category "G"). The deferment period is from 6 months to 1 year, depending on the severity of the injury due to which the deferment is granted.

Deferment from the army for work

Postponement from the army for work in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Department of Internal Affairs and the FSB

The main conditions for obtaining a deferment for work in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Department of Internal Affairs and the FSB are:

entry into the service immediately after graduation from educational institutions of higher education vocational education the same bodies and institutions;
availability of higher professional education;
the presence of a special rank;

Postponement from the army for work as a deputy

All that is required of a citizen in order to receive a deferment from the army for work as a deputy is:

Be officially elected deputy.
Exercise their powers on an ongoing basis.

Presidential reprieve

Citizens who have been given this right by special decrees of the President have the right to receive a deferment from military service. Russian Federation.

Outcome

As you understand, there are quite a lot of types and types of deferrals from the army. But very few people, especially conscripts and their parents, are aware of the opportunities and rights that they are endowed with by Federal Law No. 53 of March 28, 1998. It is for this purpose that this article was written.

Giving information to those who need it is one of the tasks that I have been pursuing from the very beginning of the formation of the Army blog: an inside look.

I wish each of us to know the rights that we have,

Before each new call, young people who fall under it ask questions about how to postpone the start of the service or avoid it altogether. There are many ways to solve this problem. They can be both legal and not entirely legal, which consist in trying to pay off money through employees of the military commissariat.

Some conscripts receive a deferment from passing an urgent army service on legal grounds, of which there are quite a lot in the current Federal Law No. 53 of March 28, 1998 “On military service and military service. The law specifies the order in which urgent military service should take place, and Article 24 of the 53-FZ defines the categories of young people who are subject to exemption from service.

The following persons of military age fall under this definition:

1) Young people whom the military medical commission has recognized as limited fit for service.

To obtain such a decision, the conscript must undergo a medical examination at the military registration and enlistment office at the place of residence.

In the presence of at least one of the chronic diseases included in the list of diseases in which a young person has the right not to serve in the army, he must provide the commission with documents confirming this right - medical card, various certificates, preferably obtained in the state medical institution rather than in a private clinic. This category of citizens is issued a military ID when they turn 18 years old.

2) Citizens who intend to do alternative service.

Those who wish to replace military service with alternative service must submit an application to the military commissariat at the place of permanent registration with a convincing description of the reason. Most often indicated religious affiliation, not allowing to serve, or the principles of morality, morality. The term of such service is longer (from 18 to 21 months) than with urgent conscription.

A young man who does not have a higher education during this period is engaged in unskilled and low-paid work. Most often, these are the duties of a nurse in a hospital or a worker at various production facilities. As a rule, work is provided far from home, and the salary is insignificant.

Citizens with higher education are waiting for work in libraries, archives, office work, which is paid minimally. It is possible for them to work in their specialty (engineer, doctor, teacher, etc.), but also with a small pay.

3) Citizens who served in foreign country with whom Russia has an international treaty on this matter.

citizens with academic degrees of candidates, doctors of sciences;
military brothers and sons military service who died in the army or during military training;
persons with an outstanding conviction, serving a prison sentence, who are in a colony, under investigation.

Other cases of deferment from service

Deferment from the army 2017 also valid in other cases, which are stipulated in article 24 of the Federal Law "On military service". According to it, citizens receive a deferment due to various circumstances: poor health, difficult family circumstances, the need to continue their studies, in connection with work in certain organizations, and others.

For health reasons, persons who are temporarily unfit for military service, recognized as such upon the fact of a medical examination, have the right to deferment (the conscript is assigned a category of fitness for service “G”, the delay lasts no more than 1 year).

Postponement for family reasons

Citizens of draft age can legally postpone service:

having 2 or more children, a child with a disability under 3 years old;
if they are single parents (raising children without their mother);
who are the only official guardian (custodian) of brothers, sisters of minor age in the absence of other adult relatives of these children.
having a child and a wife with a pregnancy of 26 weeks;
caring for sick relatives in the absence of other family members (if the conscript is the only breadwinner in the family).

Postponement from military service upon employment

The deferment applies to young people subject to conscription who have graduated from a higher educational institution and are employed in state bodies according to their profile. These are organizations such as the fire service, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the penitentiary service, customs authorities, the control service for the circulation of psychotropic substances and drugs.

Deferment from service is granted to citizens who are elected as deputies to federal, regional authorities or registered as candidates for elective office. It is valid until the moment when the election results are made public (in case of early withdrawal, a delay is given until this day inclusive).

Most often, young people use the deferment for higher education at the budget and commercial department.

Only full-time students can use it. daily form learning. Educational institutions must be state accredited. The deferral is given in accordance with the term of study, for its entire period.

The right to deferment is retained by students on academic leave or expelled own will. If a young person studies until the age of 27 (the maximum draft age) - from undergraduate to postgraduate full-time studies, then he will automatically be exempted from conscription for military service.

One study deferment is also given to students day departments medium educational institutions(colleges, technical schools, schools) with state accreditation, if they do not have a completed secondary education.

Postponement by Presidential Decree

In 2012, Decree of the President of Russia No. 969 was issued, according to which clergy can receive a deferral at the request of religious organizations.

To do this, they must receive a spiritual rank, hold a leadership position for working with believing military personnel, and undergo special training for the performance of duties. The deferment will be in effect for the duration of this position. Up to 150 people are allowed per year.

What can you do to get a deferment and what should you refuse

Some conscripts try to deceive the medical board by feigning non-existent mental disorders or other illnesses that exclude military service. This is usually not easy to do, because a psychologist is always present on the medical board, who immediately recognizes an attempt to deceive. So don't even try to do it.

Offers to try to evade service for money must also be refused. Fraudsters will take the money, and for the conscript, attempts to avoid military service illegally can lead to punishment.

There are also cases of the opposite nature, when conscripts with real diseases and the presence of documents confirming the disease are recognized as fit for military service.

A citizen may appeal against such conclusion of the commission in the military commissariat or in court. It is advisable to use the services of an experienced lawyer, or seek help from human rights organizations that work for free and respond quickly when the rights of conscripts are violated. .

If there are legal grounds, the conscript should be more persistent in achieving his goals - to collect Required documents, certificates and achieve a deferment, and in their absence, it is easier to serve military service.

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Are running out school days. Closer to the exams, graduates are determined with professional choice and select leading universities. In this decisive period of time, in full growth, the question of military service arises. Many already know what students are provided with, but in 2019 it is not provided at all universities and under certain circumstances. The issue of deferment must be studied in detail by each conscript.

Postponement in college

In some circumstances, you can count on a delayed period associated with the educational process in technical schools, or colleges after the ninth grade. It is worth having a clear idea when a deferment from service is given by a college to those who entered the college after finishing nine classes. The law of the Russian Federation stipulates that conscripts who began to study at college, after finishing nine classes, enjoy the right to defer military duty for the learning process. A significant amendment to this is the age limit, i.e. exemption is possible until the age of twenty. Such institutions, for the most part, have a course of study lasting about three or four years. Most students finish their studies after 9 years of school, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, i.e. postponed full course educational process.

As for the law

Often there are young men who strive to master vocational education, having a solid store of knowledge high school, i.e. after completing eleven classes. This is dictated by the high requirements for professionals in all industries. This is the case when the opportunity to continue education is of particular relevance and there is a need to get a deferment.

Compliant with the law"On military duty and military service", incoming recruits to technical schools, as well as various colleges, after graduating from the eleventh grade of high school, will be temporarily free from military service (a deferral is assigned), in cases where they reach the age of eighteen by the last year of study. The semantic context of this amendment, apparently, is aimed at the legal aspect of the law, since. in reality, having completed the school course at the age of 17/18, in the last year of the educational institution, the conscript will turn at least twenty years old. The law obliges a young man who enters a college, or technical school, after high school, to be called upon reaching the age of eighteen years. In short, it is not possible to postpone the performance of military duty.

We are not in vain considering this possibility. Legislature, corrected the existing inconsistency. According to the law, those who entered an educational institution after the end of the eleventh year are given time for study.

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Can they postpone the service for admission?

Let's talk about the option to stay "in civilian life" after school, i.e. having studied 11 classes, when is the moment to enter a higher educational institution. Recently, young men who turned eighteen, after the age of eleven, fell under the draft without having the opportunity to start their studies at their institutes. Now, those who graduate from schools are given time, lasting until the first of October (naturally, in the year of delivery school exams). This is your extension term when you decide to enter a university after finishing eleven classes. All graduates who have entered the HSE will already be students by October 1, which implies the start of a delayed period.

Postponement of military service, after colleges, and subsequent admission to a higher educational institution: The law provides conscripts with the opportunity to defer (for the opportunity to study) in educational institutions only once. This article has an exception, such as a repeated delayed time (due to the fact of studying), excluding the case not considered. An exception may be a bachelor's degree, a transition to a master's program, or an increase in the level in graduate school.

Who gets tuition deferment?

In order to reduce the excessive flow of applicants to institutions, the law clearly regulates the categories of young people who fall under the deferment. This is how a significant part of the applicants is cut off, the dominant motivation of which was, only, not to go to the service.

The law of the Russian Federation determined the specific conditions for conscripts to receive additional time:

if a young man enters a higher educational institution for the first time;
in cases of attempted admission directly after high school;
upon admission to undergraduate or specialization.

At the same time, a delay is not allowed for those who enter a second time, in order to master 2 higher education. To become the owner of "immunity" from military duty in a university, you must meet the requirements listed above.

If you are studying and cannot get a deferment, then you should know how to go to the military registration and enlistment office in order to receive an exemption from health service.

In what circumstances is a deferment guaranteed in case of subsequent admission to a master's program after a bachelor's degree?

The 2019 regulatory documentation considers two cases:

The decision to study for a master's degree, after completing a bachelor's degree, will be the basis for granting additional time. It is necessary to complete the administrative formalities in advance and officially notify the administration of the educational institution of your intention.

Master's degree studies following graduation. Student years are known to be fleeting. And now, having a diploma, young people are directly confronted with the urgent possibility of serving in the army. AT old days, newly minted specialists, without thinking twice, rushed to the magistracy, which promised the opportunity to avoid the army. It has sunk into oblivion. The 2017 amendments block the possibility of deferment in these circumstances.

Additions for 2019 for graduates of universities and those who are going to improve their intellectual level in graduate school

College graduates may feel well-deserved optimism. Your arrival in graduate school, this will be a delay. It is worth emphasizing that this is not affected by the number of past, already granted additional periods time. You will have the whole course and time ahead of you to defend your graduation diploma, i.e. one more year. In general, up to four years. Recall that the majority of postgraduate graduates are already 27 years old. If you haven't even reached this "milestone", successfully defending your dissertation will exempt you from the draft and you will be given the right to deferment. Particular attention should be paid to the fact that distance learning in graduate school will not be able to become an obstacle to your service in the army.

Can correspondence students get a deferment from the army?

The options that we have considered in this review are acceptable only for the full-time process. absentee promotion intellectual level not provided with a grace period. It is worth remembering this when applying for study.

"Academ" (i.e. academic leave), cases of transfer to another university, situations during restoration, or re-admission

The time of academic leave implies the full preservation of the postponement. An important feature its preservation, is the impeccable design of the holiday. (Presence of medical certificates if the cause is a disease, or relevant documents in case of "family circumstances"). The duration of this leave is 12 months.
If you transferred to another course, changed your specialty, you do not go to the service, provided that the education lasts no more than a year.

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This is received by students and students of various educational institutions of secondary and higher education. The basis for obtaining is the very fact of studying.

Registration of a deferment for students of a technical school, college, school students

Further, you, like all conscripts, will have to undergo a medical examination and receive a conclusion on your fitness category. After that, you will receive a deferment from the draft for a certain period.

Registration of a deferral for university students

A special department at your university is responsible for issuing such certificates, and you can find out more about this in your dean’s office. After that, you can common grounds undergo a medical examination, and after yours is established, the draft board will announce to you a decision on receiving a deferment from the draft for the period of study.

Deferment for graduate students

Here the process is more complicated:

Then you pass a medical examination, and the draft board grants you a deferment from military service.

Deferment from the army for work

Provided to deputies, candidates for deputies, by presidential decree, as well as employees of various government agencies:

Police officers and employees of other internal affairs bodies
Employees fire service
Employees of the penitentiary system
For drug control officials
Customs employees

Registration of deferment for employees of state bodies

The deferment is valid until the end of the contract and service in a public institution.

Deferment from the army for family reasons

Perhaps the most complex and extensive topic in the issue of conscription for military service, because there are many nuances and therefore I will remind you of the reasons for obtaining this kind of deferment:

Caring for a close relative
Custody or guardianship of a minor brother or sister
If you are a single parent and you are raising a child alone
If you have a disabled child under the age of 3
If you have
If you have a child and a wife who is pregnant and is more than 26 weeks pregnant

Arrangement of deferment for the care of a close relative

Mandatory conditions - you are busy with constant care for:

mother
father
Spouse
Sibling
Sister
grandpa
grandmother
adoptive parent

Moreover, these conditions work only if:

There are no other persons legally required to support these citizens - and who is obliged to support is indicated in articles 80,85,87,89,90,93,94,95,97 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation - If there are other persons besides you legally required to care for your relative, even if they live in another city and do not care for your relative, then you lose the right to receive a deferment from the draft
They are not on full state support - full state support is being in a home for the disabled or pensioners, being in orphanage, training in Suvorov and Nakhimov schools.
They need constant outside care for health reasons - a conclusion about the state of health is made in federal institution medical and social examination at the place of residence of citizens called up for military service.

You will receive such a delay only if all of the above conditions are met.

Arrangement of a delay in connection with guardianship

The necessary conditions to receive - you are the guardian:

Your minor brother (or sister). If they are not native, there is no reason for delay.
You are the only one legally required to maintain it.

Guardianship ends automatically when the child acquires full legal capacity. To formalize guardianship, you need to contact local authority guardianship and guardianship. This can only be done when you do not have parents, they are deprived of parental rights or evade parental responsibilities.

Documents required for registration:

Deferral for single father

Mandatory conditions:

Is the conscript married to the mother of the child - no matter. It is the mother of the child, and not the conscript's wife, that appears in the law. Therefore, the main thing is that your name should be indicated in the child's birth certificate in the father column.
The child's mother died
If you are divorced, the court must order the child to live with you, not with the mother.
The mother was deprived of parental rights through the court

Application for a deferment for a father with two or more children

Terms of provision:

It is important here that you be listed as father on the birth certificate for at least two children. Confirmation of your marriage to their mother is not required. You can also be in a civil marriage.

Documents required for registration:

Arrangement of deferment for parents of a child with a disability.

Important conditions providing:

The deferment is granted only until the child with a disability is 3 years old.
Disability must be confirmed by a medical and social examination at the place of residence of citizens called up for military service.

Documents required for registration:

Registration of a deferment for a conscript with a child and a pregnant wife

Terms of provision:

It doesn't matter if your spouse is the mother of your first child, what matters is that you are the father of that child. For example, you have a son or daughter from your first marriage (official or civil - it doesn't matter), you are currently officially married, and your wife is pregnant. The gestation period must be at least 26 weeks.

Documents required for registration:

After the birth of your wife, the deferment will be changed to a deferment for 2 children.

Which is better, respite or release from the army?

Note for all deferrals: They only work until their expiration date or until the reasons for which you received them disappear. And then you will be called again. In addition, military registration and enlistment office staff often persuade conscripts to choose a deferment even if they have health problems.

This is done so that you become a "fallback option" for the draft board. You are left on the draft lists so that in case of a shortfall and failure to fulfill the draft plan, there will always be people who can be drafted into the army (sometimes by force).

Remember that if you receive an exemption from the army, for example, for health reasons, then you will definitely not be called up. You need to find non-conscription diseases and confirm the fact of their presence with documents.

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Pass period military service for some citizens is of key importance. This may be due to education or the presence of a disease. All the nuances regarding the call are considered at the legislative level, they imply the possibility of obtaining a deferral and a list of categories of citizens who are entitled to these deferrals.

When can you expect to reschedule the call?

The postponement does not release from the civic duty to protect the Motherland, it allows you to postpone the time of conscription, giving the young man the opportunity to solve a certain number of problems. According to the law, a conscript enters the ranks of the Armed Forces immediately after he becomes an adult, however, the contingent of personnel is quite uneven in age. This fact just explains the deferment, thanks to which you can get into the army up to 27 years.

All objective reasons for granting a temporary exemption are determined by law and classified into several groups.

Getting an education. The first deferment may be needed at school. A young man can not only get a certificate, but also continue his education, having received a profession. If education is continuous and the status of each subsequent education increases, then the state will allow a citizen to reach the end of education.
If a disease that is being treated is detected, as well as during the recovery period after the operation, the young man, of course, will not be taken into the army. At the meeting military commission a decision will be made to grant a temporary exemption. Its duration depends on the degree of the disease.
Under the wording "for family reasons" several standard cases are considered. This is the birth of a second child, guardianship or.
The deferment from the army is used by representatives of the authorities of the federal and regional levels, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, fire protection and the Federal Penitentiary Service.

Deadlines for deferrals

There is no unambiguity regarding the delay period, since they are not strictly established, but depend on the specific reasons for which this delay was granted. This question interests each according to personal motives. Some plan to reach the deadline so that in the year when they turn 27 years old, they will receive a military ID. Others plan only a short-term release.

How you can get a deferment from the army is described in each article upon request, and to find out the conditions for transferring the call for six months, each case should be considered in detail.

The first deferment is given at school. Often a graduate reaches adulthood before he receives a certificate. But no one will call on a citizen who has very little left to receive a secondary education. The grace period is limited to October 1st. And if during the summer a young man enters a university or a secondary school, then it will be prolonged.

The remaining options for temporary release from the army provide for the terms established educational institutions for the study program. It becomes clear that it is so easy to manipulate. It is unlikely that anyone will go to college to sit at home for six months.

A more common way to get a delay of 6 months is to require an additional examination, in connection with the identified disease. This process can be delayed until the end of the draft period. By the way, conscription into the army has certain time limits, it starts twice a year and ends on a certain date. This means that for a six-month period of free life, it is enough to hold out by any means until the end of the draft campaign.

In principle, you can hide in a closet from a person authorized to serve the summons, since it is handed over personally and signed, but we immediately reject this method, because it will only cause discontent among the military registration and enlistment office staff, and play hide and seek throughout the entire draft period - this is irrational.

Need to study important document, which is called . It is positioned as an annex to the law on military duty. It is this document that guides the members of the military commission, assigning a certain category of fitness. It contains a list of diseases for which a delay is granted until the next call. The purpose is diagnostics, research, treatment. If the desired effect is not achieved, then the conscript may be given another delay with the same conditions.

Finally, there is another secret that will not allow you to completely avoid army life, but guarantees six months of freedom. However, it should be noted that, thus, we do not give recommendations on violation of the law, because sometimes there are situations in which it is necessary to obtain a transfer of service for a minimum time (six months), but not a single article is applicable to a particular situation.

It is necessary to complain about health during the commission. Choose such symptoms so that you are not accused of a brazen simulation. False testimony is likely to be disclosed, besides, you will not be able to provide documentary evidence that the disease has been progressing for a long time, you went to the doctor, were treated. As a result, the verdict will mean a referral to the service.

At this point, it is necessary to declare disagreement with the decision of the commission and start proceedings in judicial order. Of course, you will have to pay a state duty, but you can buy time, because during the conduct of a court case they cannot be drafted into the army. Of course, you will lose the court, but you will win your six months.