About OVIR
Department of Citizenship, Immigration and Registration of Individuals of the
State Immigration Service of Ukraine
(also knows as OVIR - Organization of Visas, Immigration and Registration)
1. organizes the work concerned with documentation of the population, registration (the right of residence), removal from the register, accounting of the citizens at the place of their residence, controls the compliance with rules of passport system by the citizens and officials (timely registration and removal from the register);
2. provides the searching of the people, who don’t pay alimony, and debtors according to the court’s claims and also helps National Committee of Red Cross Society to search people;
3. provides legislative execution about citizenship of Ukraine and all questions concerned with acquisition of citizenship of Ukraine, loss of citizenship and reception of the references concerning belonging to the nationality;
4. examines the solicitations and provides processing of foreign passports, travel documents of the child for the citizens of Ukraine;
5. organizes in constituent order the prolongation of the terms of staying of national passports of foreigners, who are in Ukraine, and organizes the control for the compliance with the rules of staying in the country by them and also takes measures concerning prevention of the infringement of this rules;
6. provides the processing of the documents and realizes the banishment of the foreigners fromUkraine in constituent order;
7. moves the proposals about samples of national passports, identity cards, visas, documents for residence, other forms of strict reporting and appears in the role of the customer of its production;
8. interacts within own competence with interested departments and administrations, executive committees of local Councils concerning solution of the problems of refugees and forced immigrants;
9. explains state policy concerning system of passports of the population and responsibility for infringement of the legislation in this sphere;
10. informs the mass media concerning the questions of Passport Service.