Where to look
Lists kept by the bodies that own them: parishes, communities, consulates, government services. We do not copy them here — we point you at whoever is actually responsible for keeping them current.
We do not run any of these organisations, we do not vet them, and we are not recommending any one of them over another. All we do is point you at the official list. Anyone who asks you for money or documents deserves checking on their own merits, however you found them.
Need a phone number rather than a registry? Who to call — free legal aid and the national helplines.
Ukrainian communities
Ukrainian World Congress — communities worldwide
Find a Ukrainian community organisation near you, filtered by country and city — 132 communities across 85 countries when we checked. The fastest way to find your people in a new city.
Checked 15 August 2026
Youth organisations
Plast — Ukrainian scouting organisation
Local branches operate in Australia, Argentina, Britain, Canada, Germany, Poland, Slovakia and the USA. For a child it is the fastest route into a Ukrainian-speaking circle in a new city — and for parents, the fastest way to meet other parents.
Checked 17 August 2026
CYM — Ukrainian Youth Association
Country pages for Australia, Argentina, Britain, Spain, Canada, Germany, Portugal and the USA, each leading to local branches. With Plast, one of the two oldest diaspora youth networks.
Checked 17 August 2026
Parishes
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — interactive parish map
The UGCC's own parish map, which covers the diaspora as well as Ukraine — Poland, Germany, Italy, France, the UK, the US, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Australia. There is a plain list too if the map will not load.
Checked 15 August 2026
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA — parish directory
Parishes state by state, alphabetical by city, with addresses and clergy contacts. Maintained by the Church itself.
Checked 15 August 2026
The Ukrainian eparchy in Paris — France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland
The Eparchy of Saint Volodymyr the Great covers five countries in western Europe. Its Paris cathedral publishes its own schedule, and the eparchy lists communities across those countries. If you are in Brussels, Amsterdam, Geneva or Luxembourg, start here.
Checked 22 August 2026
Ukrainian communities in Italy — the Apostolic Exarchate
The exarchate divides Italy into pastoral districts — Rome, Milan and the north, Naples and the south — and each district page lists the communities with church addresses and exact liturgy times. It is the fullest list for Italy, where the Ukrainian community is large and scattered across small towns.
Checked 22 August 2026
Ukrainian parishes in Germany and Scandinavia — the Apostolic Exarchate
The exarchate keeps its own list of communities with service times — dozens of German cities from Aachen to Würzburg, plus Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. Each entry gives the priest, the hours, the church address and contacts.
Checked 22 August 2026
Ukrainian Greek Catholic parishes in central and southern Poland — Przemyśl-Warsaw Archeparchy
The second Polish structure of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church keeps its own list of parishes by deanery — Warsaw, Kraków, Łódź, Rzeszów, Przemyśl and dozens of smaller towns, with addresses and service times on each parish page. Together with the Wrocław-Koszalin eparchy this covers almost all of Poland.
Checked 22 August 2026
Ukrainian Greek Catholic parishes in western Poland — Wrocław-Koszalin Eparchy
The eparchy publishes its own list of parishes by deanery — with addresses and, crucially, Sunday service times: Wrocław, Poznań, Szczecin, Katowice, Koszalin, Legnica, Zielona Góra, Słupsk and dozens of smaller towns. The fastest way to find where and when the liturgy is served in Ukrainian across western Poland.
Checked 22 August 2026
Schools
International Ukrainian School
A Ukrainian state school for children abroad: external study, state-standard certificates, free. It runs a network of partner education centres — and a centre nearby is often where families meet each other as much as where children study.
Checked 17 August 2026
AIKOM — verified Ukrainian education centres abroad
The official list of Ukrainian Saturday and Sunday schools abroad that have passed verification by a Ministry of Education and Ministry of Foreign Affairs commission — 55 centres when we checked, across Germany, Poland, the UK, Slovakia, the USA and elsewhere, and still growing. A rare case of the state itself vetting and maintaining a list.
Checked 17 August 2026
Ukrainian schools in Canada — the Ukrainian Canadian Congress registry
Over a hundred schools and preschools across Canada — Vancouver to St. John's — filterable by province, city and type: Saturday schools, bilingual programs, preschool, distance learning. Maintained by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.
Checked 20 August 2026
Ministry of Education — Ukrainian schooling for children abroad
The government resource on study forms (distance, family, external), recognition of results, and how to combine a local school with the Ukrainian curriculum without a double workload.
Checked 17 August 2026
Ukrainian government
Diia.Business — the state platform for entrepreneurs
Free consultations, guides and programs for starting or running a business in Ukraine — including family back home whom you support from abroad, and diaspora building Ukraine-linked ventures.
Checked 20 August 2026
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
The list of Ukrainian embassies and consulates abroad. Each mission has its own site on a subdomain (poland.mfa.gov.ua, for example) where it publishes its own consular services, fees, and appointment booking.
Checked 15 August 2026
Pension Fund of Ukraine
Carries a dedicated "pensions abroad" section with document templates, the regulations, and the rules for people who have left. Contact centre 0 800 503 753.
Checked 15 August 2026
Pension Fund e-services portal
The personal account: view your pension file, order a certificate or extract, and file a request — without a trip to an office.
Checked 15 August 2026
Diia — Ukrainian government services online
Its "certificates and extracts" section issues the documents you are most often asked for abroad — pension, tax, property. Signing in needs Ukrainian bank credentials or BankID.
Checked 15 August 2026
Ukraine is Home — the UNHCR information platform
The UN Refugee Agency’s platform for Ukrainians: rights under temporary protection, conditions of return, housing compensation, services inside Ukraine. In Ukrainian. It is where we send readers on topics we do not cover ourselves — return planning and rights in the host country in particular.
Checked 22 August 2026
Legal help
Unified Register of Advocates of Ukraine (ERAU)
The bar association’s official register: check that a person really is an advocate, their certificate number and region — before paying anyone for “legal services” in Ukraine.
Checked 20 August 2026
Find a Solicitor — the Law Society (UK)
The official search for solicitors of England and Wales by specialism and town — verifying the person is actually entitled to practise.
Checked 20 August 2026
AILA Immigration Lawyer Search (USA)
Search members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association by state and language. Membership does not guarantee quality — but it filters out the “notario” fraudsters who are not lawyers at all.
Checked 20 August 2026
Register of Advocates of Poland (NRA)
The Polish bar’s official register: search by name and city, with practising status — the check before paying for any legal services in Poland.
Checked 20 August 2026
Official Register of Lawyers in Germany (BRAK)
Germany’s nationwide official register of Rechtsanwälte — with an English interface. Verifies a person is actually admitted to the German bar.
Checked 20 August 2026
Ukrainian free legal aid (Bezoplatna pravnycha dopomoha)
The state free legal aid system. Hotline 0 800 213 103, with written consultations through its Telegram bot. Worth trying when your case is not a standard one.
Checked 15 August 2026
Know a registry that is missing?
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