Committing administrative offenses by foreigners and stateless persons on the territory of Ukraine is a fairly common practice.
This is primarily due to ignorance of migration law, the Ukrainian language, and less often to foreigners’ carelessness. In any case, committing an offense is always an unpleasant situation that entails the imposition of sanctions, such as fines, deportation, expulsion, and a ban on entry to Ukraine.
Therefore, it is extremely important to familiarize yourself with all the peculiarities of foreigners’ stay in Ukraine in time to avoid force majeure situations.
If you have already violated the law, you need to take care of the correct preparation of an administrative protocol and its timely execution to avoid deportation.
OUR MIGRATION LAWYERS CAN HELP YOU WITH THIS
Support of a migration lawyer may include:
- A detailed legal analysis of the situation that led to the violation of migration legislation;
- Providing advice on the legal status of a person who has violated migration law, his or her rights, opportunities, and obligations;
- Theoretical prediction of possible consequences of violations of migration legislation and recommendations for their avoidance;
- Developing a strategy for protecting the rights and interests of the person;
- Participation in negotiations with representatives of the authorities and other parties involved in the process;
- Protection of the rights and interests of a person at the judicial level in case the administrative process ended in a negative result.
Engaging legal support significantly reduces the risk of an erroneous protocol, prevents excessive application of sanctions or unjustified restriction of the rights and freedoms of a person who has become the subject of an administrative process.
The most common offense in the field of migration law:
- Exceeding by a foreigner or stateless person the established period of stay in Ukraine by no more than 30 days, as well as non-compliance with the requirements for transit through the territory of Ukraine established by law or the requirements for declaring or registering a place of residence (stay) and living in Ukraine without documents for the right to reside (stay) in Ukraine, on invalid or expired documents
- Intentional failure by a foreigner or stateless person to comply with a decision of an authorized state body to ban entry into Ukraine;
- Unlawful assistance to foreigners or stateless persons in evading departure from Ukraine after the expiration of the period of stay or residence or in unlawfully obtaining documents for the right to stay or reside in Ukraine;
- Crossing or attempting to cross the state border of Ukraine in any way outside the checkpoints across the state border of Ukraine or at the checkpoints across the state border of Ukraine without the appropriate documents or using a forged document or one containing false information about the person, or without the permission of the relevant authorities;
- Violation of the procedure for entering and leaving the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine;
- Intentional failure of the host party to take measures to ensure timely submission by foreigners or stateless persons of applications for the right to reside (stay) in Ukraine or failure to notify within the time limit established by law of the termination of the grounds for temporary residence or temporary stay in Ukraine of foreigners and stateless persons invited to Ukraine or accepted in Ukraine;
- Transportation by drivers of foreigners and stateless persons in violation of the established rules of stay of foreigners and stateless persons in Ukraine and their transit through the territory of Ukraine, if these actions are not directly related to the illegal crossing of persons across the state border of Ukraine.
