Ukrainian passport

Ukrainian passport
The front cover of a current biometric Ukrainian passport.
International travel biometric passport biographical data page
Date first issued	1 January 2015 (biometric passport)
Issued by	Ukraine
Type of document	Passport
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility requirements	Ukrainian citizenship
Expiration	10 years (4 years for persons under 18 years of age)
Cost	560/810 UAH for non-chip/biometric document (eq. 22 or 31 USD, 21 or 29 EUR)

The Ukrainian passport is a document issued for the nationals of Ukraine as the main proof of Ukrainian citizenship. There are two types of passports issued by the Ukrainian government commonly known as the internal passport and international passport. The internal passport soft booklet (issued in and before 2016) / credit-card-sized Ukrainian identity card (issued starting in 2016) is the primary identification document of Ukrainian citizens used within Ukraine. The international passport is used for overseas travel.

According to law amendments by the Ukrainian parliament of 14 July 2016 each citizen who reached the age of 14 must get a passport. Passports will be issued for four years to persons under 18 years of age, and for ten years for all the rest. Law amendments by the Ukrainian parliament of 14 July 2016 abolished the custom of registration in the passport of marriage or its annulment. Since then each spouse was issued a marriage certificate.

The law of Ukraine on a unified state demographic register and identity documents, which envisages the introduction of electronic passports for Ukrainians, came into force on December 6, 2012.

On July 10, 2015, the Ukrainian government announced that internal passports would be abolished, and replaced with ID cards, starting from January 1, 2016. On January 25, 2016, first new ID cards were issued to young citizens who achieved 16 years of age. Beginning November 1, 2016 ID cards are issued to all Ukrainian citizens.

See also Biometric passports in Ukraine.

Passport for travel abroad, commonly known as an "International Passport", is a document used for travel outside Ukraine. The passport information is recorded in Ukrainian and English. Passports are issued upon demand and are valid for 10 years. Two passports can be issued to those who frequently travel abroad.

The Ukrainian international passport follows international standards. Machine-readable passports with two machine-readable strings at the bottom of the first page appeared in the mid 1990s. The current Ukrainian international passport is a biometric one. If, based on religious beliefs, a citizen does not wish to receive a biometric passport, he/she can apply for a non-biometric one, providing a written statement before applying for the document.