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LAW OF UKRAINE

of June 7, 2001 No. 2491-III

About immigration

(as amended on 22-02-2023)

This Law determines conditions and procedure for immigration to Ukraine of foreigners and stateless persons.

Section I General provisions

Article 1. Determination of terms

In this Law the terms below are used in the following value:

immigration is arrival in Ukraine or intention to remain in Ukraine in the procedure for foreigners and stateless persons established by the law on permanent residence;

the immigrant - the foreigner or the stateless person who got permission to immigration and arrived to Ukraine to permanent residence or, staying in Ukraine on legal causes, got permission to immigration and remained in Ukraine on permanent residence;

the quota of immigration is extreme number of foreigners and stateless persons which is provided to provide permission to immigration within calendar year;

permission to immigration - the decision the granting right to foreigners and stateless persons on immigration;

the long-term visa - the permission necessary for entrance of the foreigner and the stateless person to the permanent place of residence provided by authorized body of Ukraine in the form established by the legislation to Ukraine;

legal representatives are parents, adoptive parents, parents tutors, guardians, custodians, representatives of institutions, the acting as guardians and custodians.

Article 2. Legislation on immigration

Questions of immigration are regulated by the Constitution of Ukraine, this Law and other regulatory legal acts which shall not them contradict.

If the international treaty of Ukraine which consent to be bound is this the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine establishes other rules, than those which contain in this Law then are applied rules of the international treaty of Ukraine.

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