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If the foreigner is temporarily staying in Ukraine, they may legally drive a vehicle without any additional procedures if they use:

The information on the licenses must be presented or duplicated in Latin letters.

This rule applies both before the start of military service and during its course.

The need for Ukrainian driver’s license, that is, to exchange or obtain a Ukrainian driver’s license, arises in three cases:

If you have received a permanent residence permit, you are required to exchange your driver’s license within 60 days from the date of receiving the permit.

To exchange or renew a license, it is necessary to:

Exams are not required if the license was issued in certain countries: Italy, Spain, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the Republic of Lithuania, or if it complies with the international requirements of the 1968 Convention on Road Traffic.

After meeting these requirements, an application is submitted to the service center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Documents for exchanging or renewing a driver’s license:

If you have not previously had a driver’s license, you can obtain one in Ukraine. The process consists of the following steps:

After successfully passing the exams, a Ukrainian driver’s license is issued. It is valid for two years. If you have not committed serious traffic violations during this period, the license is exchanged. 

In the case of significant traffic safety violations, there may be an obligation to retake the exams.

For foreigners serving in the military, the address of residence is considered to be the address of the military unit indicated in the certificate of military service.

During military service, a foreign national may legally rent housing. A rental agreement is important for migration and administrative procedures, including obtaining a residence permit.

To conclude a rental agreement, you need to provide:

In the case of short-term rental, proof of legal stay may not be required, but at the date of concluding the agreement, this information must be updated.

Foreign citizens rent housing on the same terms as Ukrainian citizens. It is necessary to:

If the rental agreement is needed for obtaining a temporary or permanent residence permit, then it is necessary to:

Marriage between a Ukrainian citizen and a foreigner or stateless person is officially registered in Ukraine by the state civil registry offices, located almost in every town (similar to a Registry Office, Standesamt or a similar agency in your country). The application and documents are submitted to the state civil registry office, after which state registration of the marriage is conducted.

When submitting an application for the state registration of marriage, both parties must provide:

If the man and/or woman had been previously married, additional documents must be submitted to confirm the termination of the previous marriage, namely:

The marriage application must include information about military service, confirmed by the military ID. This is confirmed by a military ID.

Marriage is registered with one month of the date of application submission. In cases of valid reasons (such as the bride’s pregnancy, presence of a common child, or immediate threat to the life of one of the spouses), the term may be shortened.

Diia is an official government application that combines your digital documents and provides access to public services online. In Ukraine, electronic documents on a smartphone have the same legal force as their physical originals.

 To display a document in Diia, you need: 

How to add a residence permit in Diia:

After successful authorization, the following tools become available in Diia:

1. Electronic residence permit (e-permit)

A digital document with a QR code confirming your temporary or permanent residence permit, which can be shown for checks by police or at checkpoints, in banks for opening accounts or updating data, at postal services (except high-value parcels requiring a passport), and at railway ticket offices. 

2. Digital document sharing

The ability to instantly provide a digital copy of your residence permit to an institution.

The institution scans your QR code in Diia, you confirm the request, and the digital copy (PDF) is automatically sent to the institution’s system.

3. Diia.Signature (qualified electronic signature)

A qualified electronic signature in your smartphone. It allows a foreign national to sign legal documents remotely.

4. Taxpayer card (RNOKPP)

A digital version of the taxpayer identification number. It is automatically loaded into the application, so you do not need to carry a paper certificate.

5. Fines and tax management

The electronic residence permit appears in Diia within 24-72 hours after the physical card is issued to the foreign national and activated in the Unified State Demographic Register.