If the child was born outside of Ukraine: what citizenship

When a child was born abroad during the war, parents often wonder what their citizenship will be and whether there will be problems with registering Ukrainian citizenship. Current legislation clearly regulates this issue and provides for the acquisition of Ukrainian citizenship by birth, if parents or one of the parents is a citizen of Ukraine. However, legal assistance will be indispensable in order to better understand all the details of the procedure and to simplify it as much as possible for yourself. The team of the Prikhodko&Partners law office has specialists who will help. Therefore, if you need an immigration lawyer, you can contact us.

How to register a child born abroad: procedure

You can register a child either by the place of birth or by the place of residence of one or both parents. It is necessary to write a corresponding statement to the consulate. Sometimes there are situations when parents cannot do this on their own for a good reason (for example, an illness has occurred). Then relatives can do it. If they are not nearby, the powers of the representatives of the foreign health care institution where the child was born come into force. In a word, legislators have provided enough different legal mechanisms even for the most unpredictable and critical cases. However, we will return to how things happen in the vast majority of situations.

Therefore, one or both of the spouses apply to the consulate, where the child is registered. At this moment, she is also assigned a surname, first name and patronymic. We suggest that you get to know in more detail how everything happens and what is needed for this.

How to register a child abroad?

There is one month from the moment the child was born to register the child. If we are talking about a stillborn child, then the procedure is different there, and three days are allocated for registration.

When going to the consulate, parents or one of them must take their own passport and a document from a medical institution about the birth of the child. It is important that this document is properly certified. Information about the father is submitted in the format of a corresponding application or is spoken orally.

When it comes directly to registration, it does not require any payment. But if another service is needed in the form of a certificate confirming the child's citizenship, a small state fee is required.

Why should you contact a lawyer?

On the one hand, the procedure for registering a child looks quite simple and clear. However, the overloading of consular institutions and the possibility of encountering the bureaucratic or human factor make it difficult to do without legal support. Specialists of our team are ready to help in such formats as:

• consultation;
• drafting of documents;
• representative office in cooperation with the consular institution.

We provide consultations not only in the office, but also remotely, because we understand that clients with this category of requests are mostly located outside of Ukraine. Our team is well aware of all the peculiarities of migration law norms that are relevant in such situations. Therefore, we will provide quality help, thereby simplifying the procedures related to the registration of a child for you.