Youth from Crimea receive Ukrainian passports en masse: what does it mean
In the author's column of the publication “Ukrainska Pravda”, the head of the Central Interregional Department of the State Health Service of Ukraine in the city. Vyacheslav Guz told Kyiv and Kyiv region that migrant workers are increasingly recording the arrival of Crimeans wishing to issue a passport of a citizen of Ukraine.
Thus, in order to enter the territory controlled by the Government of Ukraine, young Crimeans overcome a difficult path: they cross the borders, including the aggressor countries, through humanitarian corridors enter the territory of Ukraine, having only a birth certificate in their hands, or at best, a citizen's passport. Ukraine for travel abroad, issued until 2014.
“During the conversation with the inhabitants of the peninsula, it turns out that they are not afraid of air alarms, constant shelling and the dangerous situation in the country as a whole, for them the main thing is to get a document that will confirm their citizenship - a passport of a citizen of Ukraine. Most of them, after completing the document, plan to enter a higher educational institution, get a specialty and rebuild Ukraine,” says Vyacheslav Guz.
But when asked “Why did they not apply for a passport of a citizen of Ukraine before a full-scale invasion?”, young people mostly explain that the decision to issue a passport when they reached the age of 14 was not supported by their parents, or there was a difficult life situation, financial problems, etc.
However, according to the head of the Central Interregional Department of the State Health Service in the city. Kyiv and the Kiev region, there is also an objective reason why the number of Crimeans willing to document with a Ukrainian passport has increased — this is the simplification of the procedure for obtaining a document for the period of martial law. This concerns, in particular, the settlement of the procedure for establishing a person who is mandatory when issuing the first passport after reaching the age of 18.
In turn, the Migration Service states that they are doing everything possible, taking into account the individual situation of each Crimean, so that citizens of Ukraine can exercise their legal right — to obtain a passport.
As you know, in the absence of the possibility of personal presence of family members of a person, this procedure can be carried out in video conference mode. Young Crimeans willingly use this chance, so since the beginning of 2023, the units of the Migration Service of Kyiv and the region have held more than 250 video conferences, as a result of which decisions were made on the registration of a passport of a citizen of Ukraine.
According to the materials of the publication “Ukrainska Pravda”
