TEMPORARY CERTIFICATE OF CITIZEN OF UKRAINE

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TEMPORARY CERTIFICATE OF CITIZEN OF UKRAINE

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Temporary passport of Ukraine, temporary citizenship, Ukrainian identity card. This document has many names, but the official one.

A temporary certificate of a citizen of Ukraine  is issued to a foreign citizen who, in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On Citizenship of Ukraine”, has legally passed the procedure for accepting or confirming citizenship of Ukraine.

Stages on the way to obtaining a temporary certificate of a citizen of Ukraine:

  • obtaining Ukrainian citizenship, fixed in the Decree of the President of Ukraine or the decision of the head of the migration service on the acquisition of Ukrainian citizenship. The type of act that establishes the fact of acquiring citizenship is determined in accordance with the category for which an application for citizenship of Ukraine was submitted.
  • obtaining a certificate of registration of a person as a citizen of Ukraine. This document is issued personally to a person in the migration service.
  • registration of a temporary certificate of a citizen of Ukraine.

According to the Law of Ukraine “On Citizenship of Ukraine”, a temporary certificate of a citizen of Ukraine is issued for a period of 2 years without the possibility of its extension.

During these 2 years, a person must go through the procedure of officially withdrawing from his native citizenship (if we are talking about an adult) and submit the appropriate document to the migration service to complete the procedure for obtaining Ukrainian citizenship in the form of obtaining an internal passport of a citizen of Ukraine and a foreign passport of Ukraine for travel abroad. Thus, a person will fulfill his obligation, signed by him at the time of applying for admission to the citizenship of Ukraine, regarding his severance of “relations” with the country of his native citizenship.

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In those countries where it is not possible to formalize the procedure for renunciation of native citizenship, one can resort to a judicial mechanism for the termination of citizenship. In court, it is necessary to establish the fact of the existence of objective circumstances that do not make it possible to formalize the procedure for renunciation of the citizenship of the country of one’s homeland and obtain the appropriate document.

In the practice of the Law Company “Prikhodko&Partners” there are positive cases of successful application of the judicial mechanism for the termination of the citizenship of one’s affiliation, in some cases such countries as Afghanistan, Morocco, Jordan appear.

 

Today, the option of terminating Russian citizenship by going to court is very popular. So, as the migration service refuses to accept a declaration on the termination of foreign citizenship, due to the lack of a mechanism foreseen for citizens of the Russian Federation. But this option does not work for obvious reasons.

The procedure for obtaining a temporary certificate of a citizen of Ukraine and the stages of passing the procedure for obtaining citizenship of Ukraine are quite complicated, therefore, for the correctness and legality of the process, it is worth resorting to the help of specialists.

Professionals of the Law Company “Prikhodko&Partners” will be able to provide you with high-quality legal assistance.

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