Passport of Ukraine: conditions for obtaining, issuance procedure

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Passport is the most important document of every citizen of the country, which identifies the identity of its owner and belonging to a particular country. The first official document confirming citizenship was issued in the Roman Empire.

Basic rules

The current legislation provides for such circumstances and reasons under which it is necessary to issue a passport of Ukraine, namely:

• Achieve 16 years old.
• Obtaining Ukrainian citizenship.
• Returning to the country after a long stay abroad.

In addition, the law provides for the issuance of a new main document in connection with the loss, theft, change of surname, name or patronymic.

Procedure for clearance

The first receipt of a passport provides for the following procedure:

• It is necessary to prepare a package of all necessary papers.
• Submit them to the passport office along with the completed application.
• Pick up the finished passport of Ukraine within the agreed time frame.

Wherereceive?

To obtain a passport of a citizen of Ukraine, it is necessary to apply in accordance with the established procedure to the closest office of the migration service to the place of permanent residence. Documents are submitted here, and a Ukrainian passport is taken from here.

In 90% of cases, the list of required papers looks like this:

• Statement.
• 2 photos.
• Government Fee Receipt.

As a rule, parents who are already familiar with the procedure help children to issue the first document. What else may be needed to get a Ukrainian passport? Documents for additional identification: registration document, copies of parental passports, certificates from consulates (if the family is international).

Terms of receipt

The passport of Ukraine is issued within a period of approximately one month from the date of submission of a complete package of documents to the institution. But now this issue can be completely resolved with the help of law firms, whose lawyers take on the paperwork, help to obtain documents quickly and without additional difficulties. In this case, the period may be limited to five business days.

What passports are valid in Ukraine?

World practice links the emergence of biometric documents with the terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001. Paper IDs have become obsolete because they are not 100% secure and are very easy to fake.

New passport

Since the beginning of 2016, citizens of Ukraine have alsohave the opportunity to obtain a biometric passport. Ukraine has joined European countries, members of the UN, and now every Ukrainian can apply for a universal ID-card instead of an old paper document. To do this, you just need to contact special services and exchange your old passport for a new one - biometric. Such a document is reliably protected from all kinds of fakes and excludes its use by other people.

An interesting innovation was that the younger generation will be able to receive this document from the age of 14. This law came into force on January 1, 2016, but the first ID-card for teenagers will be issued free of charge.

What is the new passport of Ukraine? A photo of the document, long before the first issue, appeared in the media, on television. On its surface, it will be possible to visually see all the personal information about a person, along with a digitized signature and photo of the owner.

A biometric document involves the implantation of a chip with data on paper.

One of the main features of the new Ukrainian document is the electronic signature of the owner. This will allow you to perform any operations with the document without leaving your home.

Not only protection is on top, but also the design of the passport. All the symbols of the country are used in its elements – the map, the microtext of the anthem of Ukraine, the coat of arms and the holograms of the flag.

The appearance of a new document does not at all cancel the old paper version, and they have the same legal force. Every citizen of Ukraine has the right to reserve a choice: to change the passportto a new biometric or stay with the old one (paper).

Are organizations ready to work with the electronic novelty?

Technically, very few organizations have at their disposal special devices for reading data from such media. Despite the fact that the cost of such a device is relatively small, only a few banks and other services have them in stock.

In addition to the material base for these new documents, there is no legal basis. After all, this plastic passport of Ukraine was supposed to be the last in the system of changes.

In the future, the migration and fiscal services should cooperate and enter the identification number of taxpayers into the chip of the new document.

Modern technologies make it possible to create a chip with a digital signature of the state that issued the document.

To receive or not to receive

The introduction of this type of documents is the most important requirement of the European Union. In addition, these passports are very easy to carry, moisture resistant and very difficult to counterfeit.

According to the new law, together with the issuance of the document, data on citizens will be entered into the only demographic register of Ukraine. Human rights activists of the country oppose this system. Lawyers say that such a procedure directly violates human rights to privacy and in many respects contradicts the main law of the country. Accordingly, the possibility of such databases getting into black markets and public access to them increases.

Refusesuch a document is possible, especially the official church and other religious organizations call for this. By the way, from time immemorial it was believed that only a name can be given to a person. And numbering it is outrageous (according to church concepts).

Be that as it may, one cannot do without a passport in the modern world. Every citizen of the country must have a document that will help him organize his life in society: study, work, rest, treatment, and so on. And in order to avoid doubts about biometric passports, one should turn to the practice of other states that have been using this system for a long time and quite successfully.