Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Eased visa regime for EURO 2012 visitors

Foreigners and persons without citizenship, which will be entering Ukraine through the time of staging EURO 2012, will experience an eased procedure of visas issuing. The corresponding decree of the Cabinet of Ministers “About introducing changes to the Rules of preparation visa documents and entering Ukraine” contains such statement. The decree was adopted on Thursday, November 8.

Category of citizens
The statement fixes that a certain category of citizens, that is UEFA staff and officials, representatives of associations relating to UEFA, delegations participating in the competition, and also commercial partners, will get free visas valid for the period of up to four years before the EURO 2012 start or up to one year after its finish.

New type of visas
These citizens will get visas of a new F type which will be issued for a period of five years but no longer than one year after the continental competition finishes. This decree of the Cabinet of Ministers comes into force from January 1, 2008.