Child's Ukrainian Passport

[Brianinaz]

I put this in "Married" because the married guys are more likely to have encountered this issue. My wife and step daughter are from Ukraine. The child is 8 years old and has a separate passport although she "travels" on mom's passport ie her K4 visa etc is attached to mom's passport. Her individual passport will expire in 10/11. Mom's is good till 2018. We're going to be there this summer so I said be sure to get an updated one while we're there. She says "what? it usually takes months to get one".  My wife says getting a new "updated" passport for the child takes months and begins with bringing the old passport to the International Passport Dept and leaving it there. They apparently take their time about processing things and in a couple of months you get an updated passport with a new expiration date.

Does anyone with a step kid(s) have any experience with their passport's expiring and obtaining an updated one for the kid? Surely there has to be a way other than running back and forth to Ukraine to provide and retrieve documents  

[Faux Pas]

Brian

Have you done an inquiry with the Ukrainian embassy?

[ML]

In Kharkiv, they have recently opened some new government passport office.  My friend was able to get a first time International Passport in 2 weeks, vs 2-3 months under the old regime.  Can't speak for the situation in other cities.

[Brianinaz]

Faux Pas,
I posted the origional post as we were talking about it. Afterwards that idea came to me and the wife made an inquiry. It seems you can send the old one to the embassy in San Francisco but to get the new one you have to show up in person to get it. Thanks for the thought. I told her no one does business like that here in the states and we will check into it more but their embassy is not really in the states per se so we will see. We're going to be in Ukraine for three weeks in the summer so I'm hoping we can just make a "donation" to the right person and get it done while we're there rather than a flight and overnight stay in SF

[Brianinaz]

Manlooking,

Thanks, Kharkov is home so that's good news. My wife also say's thanks and wonders if your friend might have an address for this office?

[Faux Pas]

Brian,

It was just a thought. It's a PITA I know but the embassy is closer than Ukraine. My wife is getting hers renewed now in Russia. 6 weeks and still counting.

[johnichka]

Brian,

I am in the same situation.  The child will be 8 years old the first part of January.  Her passport expired last October.  I work in Downtown Chicago somewhat close to the Ukrainian Embassy.  I called the Embassy and asked the question about renewing the child's passport.  Was told that the Embassy CANNOT renew the passport, this must be done in Ukraine. 

They are able to issue you a "Paper" that would allow the child to travel.  Obviously, this is not needed as the child's picture is in her Mother's Passport.

Don't know if the info I received is Gospel, but it came directly from the Embassy Representative here in Chicago.

[thompsongunner06]

OK,,your wife in married to you,,,get her AMERICAN citizenship. Then the child gets American citizenship. Simple. Dual citizenship is not the way to go. Go Blue!

[Brianinaz]

John

I will ask Natalia for the specifics of where she got the information from. I think it was off The embassy web site because the issue came up while we were traveling. I made the original post while we were talking about it and she had the SF info all within about an hour. We're were in a hotel suite and I didn't hear her talking to anyone in Russian so I'm assuming it came off a web site. I'll ask her though and forward the info to you.

Thompson

She's a few years from qualifying for citizenship but thanks for the suggestion.

[Sailor291]

I obviously dont know your step daughters situation, but, if you can legally adopt her, automatic citizenship.

[tfcrew]

I obviously don't know your step daughters situation, but, if you can legally adopt her, automatic citizenship.

That is an excellent thought.
However, the process of adoption takes every bit of 'months' longer than ordinary passport renewal.
It just shouldn't take all that long esp if you can 'pay' an expedite 'fee'.

[ML]

Manlooking,

Thanks, Kharkov is home so that's good news. My wife also say's thanks and wonders if your friend might have an address for this office?

OK, here is the info for Kharkov as I just got from my friend:

The address of new office is   пр. Правды, 5.

[dbneeley]

OK,,your wife in married to you,,,get her AMERICAN citizenship. Then the child gets American citizenship. Simple. Dual citizenship is not the way to go. Go Blue!

A stepchild eight years of age does not qualify for direct citizenship application unless I am mistaken. Instead, that would happen when her mother qualifies for and applies for naturalization herself.

David

[tfcrew]

children under 18...


http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/89478-child-citizenship/


http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/209746-child-citizenship-act/