On 27-28 September 2018, the Panel Meeting on Integrated Border Management was held in Odessa. The event was hosted by Ukraine (...
Ukraine
- State Migration Policy Concept (EN)
- Migration Profile – Ukraine (2015)
- Ukraine: ENP Progress Report (2014)
- GRETA - Implementation of the CoE Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings - Ukraine 2014 (EN)
- Ukraine CARIM East Migration Profile (2013)
- Ukraine CARIM East Migration Fact Sheet (2013)
- Prague Process – Extended Migration Profile – Ukraine (2011)
- IOM Migration Glossary (EN-UA)
Meetings
October 2017
On 17-18 October, the Expert Meeting on Preventing Facilitation of Irregular Migration took place in Kyiv. The event was co-hosted by Ukraine and Lithuania with the support of the European...
October 2016
Organising countries:
Latvia and Ukraine
Location:
Riga
Date:
27-28 October 2016
November 2014
About 50 representatives of EU Member States, Eastern Partnership countries, academia and international organizations gathered in Warsaw to discuss joint opportunities and challenges in the field...
June 2015
The representatives of the EU Member States, Eastern Partnership countries, academia and international organizations gathered in Kyiv to compare their practices and approaches to solving the...
News
07.11.2018
The State Migration Service of Ukraine has launched a new e-service, through which citizens can submit their personal data online for processing biometric documents.
The electronic service...
26.10.2018
Belarus and Ukraine have signed an agreement on readmission. The ceremony to sign the document took place at the 1st Forum of Regions of Belarus and Ukraine on 26 October.
The purpose of the...
26.10.2018
In 2017, citizens of Ukraine continued to receive the highest number of residence permits in EU Member States of any non-EU country. 662 thousand Ukrainians received residence permits. According...
05.10.2018
Ukraine and Georgia simplify border crossing procedures, which make it possible for their citizens to travel between the two countries without a passport, only with an ID card. The relevant...
02.10.2018
Ukrainian Parliament has approved at the second reading the implementation of the provisions of the III and IV of Additional Protocols of the European Convention on the Extradition of Offenders...
20.09.2018
Chamber of the Supreme Court of Ukraine canceled the ban on issuance of passports in a form of a book instead of ID-card, as the press office of the Supreme Court says.
“The introduction of...
13.09.2018
Over the past month, the State Migration Service of Ukraine, National Police and State Border Guard Service within the “Migrant” operation revealed more than 2400 violators of the migration...
11.09.2018
The EaP Panel on Migration, Mobility and IBM meeting on Integrated Border Management* will take place on 27-28 September in Odesa, Ukraine.
The meeting will be an occasion to discuss the...
10.09.2018
Ukraine has moved up to the 24th place in the Global Passport Power Rank 2018, which ranks passports of the world by their total visa-free score. According to the ranking, the Ukrainian passport...
03.09.2018
Since the introduction of the visa-free regime 1 million 290 thousand Ukrainians have already visited the EU member states - stated the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on 3 September....
03.08.2018
In the first half of 2018, the State Border Service of Ukraine recorded an increase in the number of identified irregular migrants by 22%. Thus, during the first six months of 2018, 1,432...
31.07.2018
Canada on July 31 started to collect biometric data from all applicants for visas with Ukrainian citizenship, according to the Canadian immigration ministry.
Nationals from Ukraine are...
31.07.2018
According to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, over one million Ukrainians have already enjoyed the visa-free regime with the European Union after its introduction on 11 June 2017.
...
28.06.2018
The long-term state border demarcation plan for 2018-2026 has been approved at the 17th session of the Ukrainian-Belarusian demarcation commission that gathered in Lutsk (Ukraine) on 26-27 June. ...
22.06.2018
According to the statement of the State Migration Service of Ukraine (SMS) 4 194 irregular migrants have been revealed in Ukraine during the first five months of 2018.
It is noted that in...
11.06.2018
11 June marked one year since the EU-Ukraine visa-free regime was introduced. This canceled the necessity of visas during the border crossing procedure - for Ukrainians who own the biometric...
25.05.2018
European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn says that there are no risks today that would lead to the introduction of a Schengen visa...
22.05.2018
According to the ranking by Henley & Partners that takes into account how many countries can be visited...
16.05.2018
The Lithuanian government has decided to set quotas for foreign workers in some professions in connection with the intensive rise of immigration from Ukraine, Lithuanian Vice-Chancellor Deividas...
04.05.2018
54% of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have funds only for food or have to limit expenses even for food, according to an EU-funded IOM survey conducted in March 2018. This is a 10% increase...
02.05.2018
The Cabinet of Ministers has introduced issuance of permanent residence permits to foreigners and stateless persons in the form of contactless smart ID cards from 1 June.
This is stated in...
27.04.2018
President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on the celebration of the Border Guard Day of Ukraine on April 30. The Head of State stressed that the Border Guard Day should be in line with real...
26.04.2018
On 26 April 2018, a working meeting of the delegations of the border agencies of Ukraine and Georgia was held under the leadership of the Chairman of the State Border Service of Ukraine Petro...
26.04.2018
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a bill into law to amend certain legislative acts on state border security, which steps up control over the state border and introduces a 10-year...
24.04.2018
The Palanca State Border Crossing Point, which is jointly administrated by the authorities of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, is being built from the ground up with support provided by the EU...
18.04.2018
The Government of Ukraine has determined the maximum possible number of immigrants for 2018 at the level of 4,388 people.
The corresponding instruction, elaborated by the State Migration...
10.04.2018
According to the news release issued by Eurostat on 9...
10.04.2018
The Hellenic Coast Guard has detained 64 irregular migrants near the Peloponnese, as well as three Ukrainians who transported them.
"They were trying to move to Italy. Smugglers come from...
04.04.2018
Consular Service of Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) launched the online registration of foreigners for electronic visas (e-Visa) for entry into Ukraine with a business or tourist...
29.03.2018
The new issue of Border Security Report covering March-April 2018 states that the migration situation in Ukraine is not threatful and irregular migration has not become a significant problem (...
29.03.2018
The Consular Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs started the on-line registration of foreigners for electronic visas (e-Visa) for entry into Ukraine with a business or tourist purposes (...
21.03.2018
The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree enacting the National Security and Defense Council Resolution dated 1 March 2018 “On Urgent Measures to Neutralize Threats to National...
20.03.2018
Ukraine and Qatar signed an agreement on the mutual abolition of visa requirements. This was reported on March 20 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin.
"The agreement...
16.03.2018
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Bartosz Cichocki has said the amount of remittances transferred by Ukrainian citizens from Poland to Ukraine grew by almost one and a half times in 2017, to PLN 13...
15.03.2018
As stated by the official representative of the Directorate General for Consular Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vasylii Kirilich, 148 citizens of Ukraine were detained in...
07.03.2018
A hotline for questions concerning legal employment and protection of rights has been established in Poland for Ukrainian workers,...
28.02.2018
The introduction of visa-free agreement with EU countries has encouraged more Ukrainians to travel to the EU for various purposes. The number of travellers has especially increased among the...
20.02.2018
As stated in the recent Risk Analysis released by Frontex on 20 February 2018, for the three months post-visa liberalization (July-September 2017), the size of the passenger flow of Ukrainians...
03.02.2018
Ukraine has equipped 157 border crossing checkpoints with biometric identification systems, the State Border Guard Service said in a statement dated 2 February 2018.
A total of 1,200 new...
01.02.2018
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has launched a service of voluntary registration of Ukrainian citizens for the convenience of traveling abroad.
According to the Department of...
01.02.2018
The government of the Czech Republic agreed to double the quotas for workers from Ukraine - up to 19,600 per year, the press service of the Foreign Ministry of the country said. Such step should...
01.02.2018
As stated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, 85,119 Ukrainians obtained Russian citizenship in 2017. Also for this period, a decision to issue 67,022 residence permits for Ukrainians (...
29.01.2018
A little more than a quarter of Ukrainians leaving the country (26.1%) seek to stay on foreign soil to wait out hard times, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology....
27.01.2018
The State Migration Service of Ukraine has started verification of all persons who received Ukrainian citizenship during Ukraine's independence, said the Head of the State Migration Service of...
24.01.2018
Summary of legislative monitoring in the area of migration and border management for December 2017 prepared by IOM Ukraine is available now at the following ...
12.01.2018
According to the Directorate of Consular Service of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine ten new visa centers will start their work in eight countries from 15 January 2018.
In particular, visa...
08.01.2018
Since the beginning of the year, more than 22,500 people have passed the biometric control when crossing the Ukrainian border, of which almost 15,500 are citizens of the Russian Federation, the...
01.01.2018
Ukraine has introduced a new system of biometric control for foreigners entering Ukraine as of 1 January 2018. It is applicable to citizens of 70 states designated as countries of "migration risk...
11.12.2017
Visa free regime with the EU encourages more Ukrainians to discover European countries. Ukrainians have crossed the EU member states' border near 11 mln times since the entry into force of the...
23.11.2017
Work in Poland will be more regulated for foreigners. Marzanna Skoczek, the Director of District Department of Labor in Grojec, claimed that, starting from January 2018, new rules on the...
20.11.2017
The issue of receiving EU residence permit remains actual for many Ukrainians. And there are already some good news in this regard. According to the Eurostat data, citizens of Ukraine received the...
