Ukrainian personal code

Passport is a document issued by the state for its citizens’ ukrainian personal code. The passport entitles legally to cross the border and determines the nationality of its owner.

The internal passports are used to control the movement of persons within the country and their places of residence. In many countries the passports have a single form and international format, most identification fields on the main page are filled with English. It is issued by the central executive body implementing the state policy in the field of citizenship to every citizen of Ukraine aged 16. The internal passport is valid for conclusion of civil transactions, banking operations, execution of warrants for other persons in order to be represented before a third person only on the territory of Ukraine, unless otherwise provided by the international treaties of Ukraine. The internal passport is issued by the territorial departments of the State Migration Service of Ukraine at the residence of the citizen of Ukraine aged 16, and further, if necessary, is exchanged, issued instead of the passport which has been lost, stolen or damaged. To homeless citizens the passports are issued at the place of their preferred location. Issuance and exchange of the passports are held within a month.

The application is filled by the applicant in person by hand, legibly, with exhaustive answers to all the questions, without abbreviations and acronyms. Filling in the application form by other persons instead of disabled persons, mentally ill persons etc. The photos submitted for preparation of the passport must be done of one negative picturing only the full face without headdress, made on a thin white or color photo paper and without corner. The state tax payment receipt or the copy of a document on state tax exemption. The passport and two photos of the specified size are submitted for gluing into the passport for the citizens aged 25 and 45. Original documents are returned to the person with the issued passport.

Exchange of the passport of the citizen of Ukraine is held within one month at the place of residence of the citizen. Gluing new photos into the passport of the citizen aged 25 and 45 is performed in five days. For exchanging the Ukrainian passport in connection with change of name, given name or patronymic, or by differences in the entries the documents confirming these facts are also submitted. Form of the temporary certificate, procedure of its issuance is set by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. For exchanging the passport and gluing the new photos a citizen submits the documents and photos no later than a month after reaching the appropriate age or changing name, given name or patronymic, ascertaining differences in the entries or unsuitability of the passport for use.

Introduction terms of the passport card are determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as a state automated system of population counting is developed. Pursuant to the law all entries in the passport and information about its owner entered hereto must be done only in Ukrainian. Additional information can also be entered into the passport on the glued sheets of the form specified by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. 125 mm, consisting of a cover and 16 pages. All pages of the booklet are numbered, on each of them the State Emblem of Ukraine is shown and a series and passport number are perforated.