On October 29, 2025, the Government of Ukraine approved amendments to the decree that, in February 2022, had established a temporary procedure for extending the validity of passports and including information about children in them. This decree was adopted on the fifth day of Russia’s full-scale invasion due to the shutdown of Ukraine’s passport system, which made it impossible to issue new documents. For this reason, as an exceptional measure, a temporary procedure was introduced to extend the validity of passports and allow the inclusion of children’s data.

However, the legislation of most countries around the world allows border crossing only with passports (usually biometric) that are valid for no more than 10 years.

More information about these changes is available at the following link.