Your right to stay has a date on it — and it is not the date in the news

This is the page on the site that goes out of date fastest, and the one where being wrong costs the most. So it is deliberately short on procedure and heavy on links: we tell you where your own date lives and then send you to the authority that decides.

Nothing here is legal or immigration advice. Your status is decided by the country you live in, and getting it wrong can cost someone their right to stay. Where it matters, get qualified help before relying on anything — including this.

The one thing that is true everywhere

Four systems, one shared trap: the date that matters to you is printed on a document you already have, not in a headline. Announcements describe a framework; your permission runs on its own clock, usually shorter.

So before anything else, find your date:

• EU — the expiry printed on your residence permit or protection document
• United Kingdom — your permission in your UKVI account and eVisa
• United States — your parole expiry on Form I-94, issued when you were paroled in; if you hold TPS instead or as well, the validity on your I-797 approval notice and your EAD
• Canada — the expiry on your open work permit

Put that date in a calendar with two months of warning. Our calendar reminders tool will generate the file for you.

Where each system stands

Everything below is orientation, checked on the date this page carries. The linked page is the live version, and the American, British and Canadian pages are published in Ukrainian as well as English — read the official Ukrainian text rather than anyone’s summary of it, this one included.

European Union

Temporary protection has been extended until 4 March 2028 by Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1912, adopted 30 July 2026, applying from 5 March 2027. The decision also introduced conditions and a carve-out for people who already held temporary protection in a member state on or before 4 August 2026 and have kept it continuously — a date corrected from 30 July by a corrigendum published in the Official Journal on 5 August 2026.

But member states issue and renew permits on their own cycles, often annually, so your renewal can fall due years before the framework ends. The EU sets the ceiling; your country sets your deadline. Only one of those arrives in your letterbox.

United Kingdom

The Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) scheme is how people already on a Ukraine scheme stay on, and it comes in two stages: the first grant (UPE, sometimes called UPE-1) gives 18 months; when that runs out, a second application (UPE-2) gives a further 24 months. It is free to apply, and you apply 90 days before your current permission expires — for both stages. Applying within that window does not shorten what you get: remaining permission is added to the new grant, so there is no reason to leave it late.

You must be in the UK to apply, and you need your UKVI account and eVisa. The GOV.UK guidance is the authority.

United States

Two American statuses get confused constantly, and people hold one, the other, or both. Read the one that is actually yours — they run on different clocks and different rules.

Uniting for Ukraine (parole)

People paroled in under Uniting for Ukraine can request re-parole, decided case by case on Form I-131. Two structural points that catch people, both stated by USCIS itself:

• File no earlier than 180 days before your parole expires — and no later than you can help. Filing too early can get the request rejected or denied without a refund of the fees.
• Parolees under Uniting for Ukraine must complete medical attestation requirements in their USCIS online account as a condition of parole.

There are filing fees, and fee waivers exist. We publish no figures here on purpose: US fees change, and a stale number means an underpaid filing, which means a rejection. Take the amount from the USCIS page on the day you file.

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) — two sources that currently disagree

TPS is not parole. It is a designation of a country, and it has its own clock. Two facts, both checked on 3 October 2026, do not currently line up:

• The USCIS page for Ukraine shows the designation through 19 October 2026. That is the USCIS page, last updated by USCIS on 3 September 2026. USCIS is the agency of record.
• The statute provides for an automatic extension when no decision is made in time. Under 8 U.S.C. §1254a(b)(3), if no determination is made at least 60 days before a designation ends, the designation “is extended for an additional period of 6 months”. For Ukraine that point fell on 20 August 2026, and the Federal Register carries no Ukraine TPS determination as of 3 October 2026.

What this means for your status or your work permit is a legal question, and we cannot answer it. Do not act on either date — in either direction — on the strength of a website, including this one:

• Before any decision that depends on the date — a job, a lease, travel, leaving the US, or not filing something — talk to an immigration lawyer (AILA’s directory is where to check that one is really a lawyer) or a Justice Department–recognised organisation, the non-profits authorised to represent people in immigration matters.
• If your right to work is questioned, that too is a question for a lawyer, not for a group chat and not for us.
• Watch the USCIS page. If a Federal Register notice is published, its dates govern.

Corrected 18 September 2026. Until today this section said that, on the face of the statute, the designation runs to 19 April 2027 and that nothing needs re-filing. That was our own reading of the law presented as the answer, on a question that decides people’s status and right to work — which is precisely what this site says it does not do. The facts are unchanged; the conclusion is withdrawn. We are grateful to the reviewer who pressed the point.

Canada

The CUAET travel authorisation itself ended in 2023, but measures continue for people already in Canada on an open work permit issued under the Ukrainian public policy, and for those awaiting a decision on the permanent-residence pathway. The measures have their own application deadline, which has already been extended once and may move again — check the IRCC page for the current one rather than assuming you have missed it.

That page also notes something squarely in our territory: delays renewing a Ukrainian passport in Canada. If your status renewal depends on a valid passport, start the consular side early — see what a consulate can do.

What to actually do

1. Find your own expiry date on the document above — not the date from the news.
2. Calendar it with two months of warning, and note when your country’s application window opens (90 days in the UK, 180 in the US).
3. Bookmark your country’s official page and check that, rather than what someone said in a group chat. Read it in Ukrainian where the government publishes Ukrainian. Our country pages collect those official pages — status, healthcare, work, diplomas — for the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and Poland.
4. Keep your address current with the authority that issued your status. A missed letter is one of the commonest ways a renewal goes wrong.
5. Keep your Ukrainian documents valid too. A passport expiring before your permission does is a problem you can see coming.

Where the danger is

Advice from other people in your situation. Rules differ between countries, between regions, and between individual cases in ways that make well-meant advice actively dangerous. Someone else’s renewal is not a procedure.

Anyone who offers to secure, speed up or guarantee your status for a fee. This is one of the standard patterns in the scams that target Ukrainians abroad, and it is sharpest where the official process is free or fee-waivable — a UK UPE application costs nothing, and someone charging you for it is selling you a form you can file yourself. Immigration lawyers are real and worth paying; “agents” who promise outcomes are not the same thing.

If your status is genuinely at risk, the people to reach are a qualified immigration lawyer where you live, or a recognised refugee-support organisation there — not a consulate, which has no authority over another country’s immigration decisions, and not us.

Where to check

The four official pages linked above are the authorities, each for its own country. If a date here has moved and we have not caught it, tell us — this page in particular.