of June 7, 2001 No. 2491-III
About immigration
This Law determines conditions and procedure for provision of the right to permanent residence in Ukraine to foreigners and stateless persons, the bases and procedure for receipt of permission to immigration to Ukraine and its cancellations, powers of the public authorities which are participating in the solution of the questions of provision of permission to immigration and which are acting for the benefit of providing the rights and freedoms of persons and homeland security of Ukraine, procedure for appeal of decisions concerning immigration, actions or failure to act of public authorities their official and officials.
In this Law the terms below are used in the following value:
immigration is arrival in Ukraine or intention to remain in Ukraine in the procedure for foreigners and stateless persons established by the law on permanent residence;
the immigrant - the foreigner or the stateless person who got permission to immigration and arrived to Ukraine to permanent residence or, staying in Ukraine on legal causes, got permission to immigration and remained in Ukraine on permanent residence;
the quota of immigration is extreme number of foreigners and stateless persons which is provided to provide permission to immigration during the certain period;
permission to immigration - the decision the granting right to foreigners and stateless persons on immigration;
the long-term visa - the permission necessary for entrance of the foreigner and the stateless person to the permanent place of residence provided by authorized body of Ukraine in the form established by the legislation to Ukraine;
legal representatives-parents, adoptive parents, adoptive parents, parents tutors, guardians, custodians (the citizens of Ukraine or foreigners or persons without citizenship who are constantly living in Ukraine), guardianship and custody body, the representative of administration of organization who performs functions of the guardian and custodian;
country of origin country or country of civil accessory or country of the previous permanent residence;
mass arrival of immigrants in Ukraine situation in case of which the specific weight of immigrants in the total number of the population of Ukraine will exceed 10 percent;
continuous accommodation in the territory of Ukraine - residence of person in Ukraine if its one-time trip abroad on private affairs did not exceed 90 days, and in the amount in one year - 180 days (departure of person abroad in official journey, for study, in leave, on treatment according to the recommendation of the relevant medical institution or change by person of the residence in the territory of Ukraine is not violation of the requirement about continuous accommodation).
Questions of immigration are regulated by the Constitution of Ukraine, this Law and other regulatory legal acts which shall not them contradict.
If the international treaty of Ukraine which consent to be bound is this the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine establishes other rules, than those which contain in this Law then are applied rules of the international treaty of Ukraine.
Legal status of the immigrant in Ukraine is determined by the Constitution of Ukraine, this Law, other laws of Ukraine and regulatory legal acts adopted according to them.
Permission to immigration is provided to immigrants whose categories are determined in parts two and third this Article. In case of mass arrival of immigrants in Ukraine for state regulation of process of immigration on representation of the central executive body realizing state policy in the field of migration (immigration and emigration), including counteractions of illegal (illegal) migration, nationality, registration of physical persons, refugees and other categories of migrants determined by the legislation, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine establishes immigration quota in the procedure determined by it
The quota of immigration can be established for the following categories of immigrants:
1) scientists and cultures which immigration is equitable to interests of Ukraine;
2) highly qualified specialists and workers, sharp requirement for whom is notable for economy of Ukraine, the spouse of such persons, their children who did not reach 18 years - in case of their joint entrance and stay in the territory of Ukraine;
3) persons which performed foreign investment in economy of Ukraine the foreign converted currency a minimum of 100 (hundred) thousand US dollars;
4) persons who are the only-begotten brother or the sister, the grandfather or the grandma, the grandson or the granddaughter of citizens of Ukraine;
5) the faces which were earlier consisting in citizenship of Ukraine;
6) the husband (wife) of the immigrant if they are married more than two years, his children aged up to 18 years and his disabled parents who are considered as members of the family of the immigrant according to the right of foreign state - countries of source;
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