Conditions for crossing the border with Poland

When crossing the border with Poland documents verifying identity are necessary. If a child does not have a passport, a birth certificate will be useful.

─     If the validity of the foreign passport has expired:

If you entered Poland with a biometric foreign passport, the validity of which has already expired or will expire within the next three months, you can contact the nearest Ukrainian Consulate in the queue (one of the five - Warsaw, Krakow, Lublin, Gdańsk, Wrocław) to extend the passport's validity. For this, you need to have the original passport and its copy.

An extension of the passport can be issued no earlier than 2 months before the date of expiry of the passport.

If the period of validity of the foreign passport of a child under the age of 16 is extended, his/her personal presence at the Consulate is not mandatory.

More details at the link.

For which matters should you contact the consular institution?

1.     To extend the validity of a foreign passport for up to 5 years after its expiration (for children, the validity of a foreign passport can be extended for 4 years).

2.     To enter information about children the passport of one of the parents.

In case you only have an internal passport (old-style booklet without Latin characters), where there are no records in Latin, you can obtain a Certificate of Identity Confirmation, where your personal data will be indicated in Polish and Ukrainian.