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      Legalization in Ukraine: Invitations for foreigners from countries with a visa regime

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    Legalization in Ukraine: Invitations for foreigners from countries with a visa regime

    Find your ground in 1 minute

    Question 1 of 1

    What is the purpose of your trip to Ukraine?

    💡 The purpose decides who must invite you and which visa you need (C short stay, D long stay).

    Choose one option and we will show what fits you.

    Detailed description of the service — read

    Citizens of visa-required countries need a type C visa for a short trip to Ukraine (tourism, business, private visit). It allows a stay of up to 90 days within 180 days. One of the grounds for the visa is an invitation from a host in Ukraine.

    Types of invitations

    • private — from relatives, friends, a fiancé or fiancée;
    • business — from a Ukrainian company or organisation;
    • tourist — from a travel agency.

    Who issues it and how

    • An individual (a Ukrainian citizen or a foreigner lawfully residing in Ukraine) issues the invitation at a notary as a notarised statement.
    • A legal entity issues the invitation on official letterhead with the details required by the Visa Rules.

    Since 2017, an invitation issued by the State Migration Service is no longer grounds for a short-term visa, so individuals must go to a notary.

    Applying for the visa

    With the invitation, the foreigner applies at a Ukrainian embassy or consulate, or obtains an e-visa at evisa.mfa.gov.ua (for citizens of countries on the Foreign Ministry list). Proof of sufficient funds and medical insurance may also be required.

    The current visa regime for each country is published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: mfa.gov.ua.

    How to arrange an invitation and a visa to enter Ukraine

    Roadmap

    1. Visa type

      C — short trips of up to 90 days in any 180-day period; D — long stay followed by a residence permit

    2. Invitation

      A private person has the invitation notarised, an organisation issues its own letter; no application to the SMS is needed

    3. Documents

      The foreigner prepares passport, form, photo, insurance, proof of funds and the original invitation

    4. Application

      A Ukrainian embassy, consulate or visa centre — no earlier than 3 months before the trip; in specified cases at Boryspil and Odesa airports; for citizens of 45 states — e-visa online

    5. Processing

      Up to 10 working days (up to 30 if extra checks are needed), urgent — up to 5

    6. Entry

      Cross the border with the visa; with a D visa — apply to the SMS for a residence permit

    Required documents

    Or choose the ground manually from the list
    Who invites. Choose your case — the documents and the check depend on it:

    Visa documents of the foreigner

    • Passport: valid at least 3 months after the planned departure from Ukraine, at least 2 blank pages, validity period of no more than 10 years
    • Completed and signed visa form (for minors — signed by a parent or legal representative)
    • One colour photo, 35 × 45 mm
    • Medical insurance covering at least EUR 30,000, unless legislation or treaties provide otherwise
    • Proof of sufficient funds for the stay and return (or a lawful way to obtain them in Ukraine) — under the Procedure approved by CMU Resolution No. 884
    • Proof of payment of the consular fee, unless legislation or treaties provide otherwise
    • Documents issued abroad must be legalised unless a law or treaty provides otherwise, with a certified Ukrainian translation (or English if that is not possible).

    Invitation and attachments

    Choose your case above to see the documents for your case.

    Document preparation support — 90 days

    Upload your documents — the system checks them against the official list and shows what to fix. Unlimited re-checks for 90 days.

    Price: UAH 400 · 90 days

    The document check (UAH 400) is available once you choose your case: the system checks the package against it.

    What is included and how it works

    Not a one-off check but repeat checks for 90 days. Your documents stay in your account, and every run checks the whole package together — so it sees whether data matches across documents and whether fixes introduced new errors.

    • The list for your exact ground, based on official migration-service sources and law
    • Each document: validity, translation and certification, all pages, readability
    • Cross-check between documents: names, dates of birth, numbers — the same everywhere
    • A green, yellow or red signal and exactly what to fix
    • Fix — upload — re-check: no limit on the number of checks within 90 days from payment, up to 3 checks per 24 hours
    • Picked the wrong ground? The system flags it; switch at no extra cost
    • A “No obvious gaps found” result once every mandatory item passes without remarks (a preliminary automated check, not a guarantee that the documents will be accepted)

    How the check works and what you get

    1. You upload documents for each item on the list for your ground (the list is below, with links to official sources).
    2. An AI system reads the documents and compares them with exactly this list: presence, validity dates, complete pages, legibility, translation, matching names, dates and numbers.
    3. You get a report for each document: a green, yellow or red signal, the reason and what exactly to fix. Anything not checked is marked separately.
    4. The check does not establish that documents are authentic, does not certify translations, does not assess your legal situation and does not guarantee that documents will be accepted or that the decision will be positive. It is not a lawyer’s consultation.

    This is an automated check against the official list, not legal advice. The final decision is made by the state authority. Check results stay in your account; document files are deleted 30 days after the support period ends (personal data).

    Key figures

    Consular fee
    base rate USD 65 (higher for some countries)
    Urgent processing
    double fee, up to 5 working days
    Processing time
    up to 10 working days (up to 30 with checks)
    When to apply
    no earlier than 3 months before the trip
    Stay on a C visa
    up to 90 days in a 180-day period

    The visa decision rests with the Ukrainian embassy or consulate, which may request additional documents.

    List checked against official sources on 17.10.2026. Sources: CMU Resolution No. 118 of 01.03.2017 (Visa Rules); Ministry of Foreign Affairs: visa to Ukraine

    Want to check? Order a lawyer's request online

    A lawyer prepares and sends the request to the authority; the reply appears in your account. ₴4,000 per request; package prices are shown on the package page.