President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law allowing multiple citizenship in Ukraine.
He announced this on his social media accounts.
According to the head of state, the adoption of the document will create a new legal basis for uniting all Ukrainians around the world, as well as representatives of other nationalities who have tied their lives to Ukraine.
Zelensky instructed the government to prepare all necessary subordinate legislation for the implementation of the new law, in particular to begin identifying partner countries with which the multiple citizenship mechanism will be introduced.
The law allows for multiple citizenship in a number of cases:
- a child acquiring Ukrainian citizenship and the citizenship of another state at birth;
- a child who is a citizen of Ukraine acquiring the citizenship of their foreign adoptive parents;
- automatic acquisition of another citizenship by a citizen of Ukraine as a result of marriage to a foreigner;
- automatic acquisition of another citizenship by a Ukrainian citizen who has reached the age of majority as a result of the application of the citizenship legislation of a foreign state, if such a Ukrainian citizen has not received a document confirming that he or she has citizenship of another state;
- acquisition of Ukrainian citizenship under a simplified procedure for foreigners who are citizens of states included in the list of those who can obtain citizenship under a simplified procedure;
- acquisition by a Ukrainian citizen of citizenship of states from the list of those whose citizens acquire Ukrainian citizenship under a simplified procedure.