Ukraine: Information from January 1992 on the identity documents in which ethnicity, not merely citizenship, is indicated; on whether ethnicity is indicated in external passports, internal passports, birth certificates, military books, and labour books; under what circumstances, e.g. passport or propiska applications, is ethnicity, not necessarily citizenship, asked
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 July 1995 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | UKR21142.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ukraine: Information from January 1992 on the identity documents in which ethnicity, not merely citizenship, is indicated; on whether ethnicity is indicated in external passports, internal passports, birth certificates, military books, and labour books; under what circumstances, e.g. passport or propiska applications, is ethnicity, not necessarily citizenship, asked, 1 July 1995, UKR21142.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab9740.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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The information that follows pertains to Ukraine following the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a state at the end of 1991.
For information on whether ethnicity is indicated in birth certificates, please consult Response to Information Request SUN20208.E of 27 March 1995 and the Union of Councils attachment. For information on whether ethnicity is listed in internal passports, please consult the attachments.
For information on whether ethnicity is listed in military books, labour books, and external passports, please consult the Union of Councils attachment.
For information on the circumstances under which people are asked their ethnicity, please consult the Union of Councils attachment. For information on whether people are required to submit their internal passport in order to receive an external passport, please consult Response to Information Request UKR17947.E of 18 July 1994.
For related information on these questions as they pertained to the former Soviet Union, please consult Response to Information Request SUN21131 of 27 July 1995.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Attachments
Ukrinform [Kiev, in English]. 6 March 1995. "Crime Increase Said Reason for Introducing New Passport." (FBIS-SOV-95-043 6 Mar. 1995, p. 67)
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Chicago. 6 July 1995. Facsimile sent to the DIRB.