# Sunflower UA

> Practical guides and free tools for Ukrainians living abroad who still have money, property,
> family, or paperwork in Ukraine — pensions, powers of attorney, inheritance, consular procedure,
> citizenship, tax in two countries, property, and where each host country publishes its own rules.
> Bilingual: Ukrainian at the site root, English under /en/. No paywalls, no accounts, no banner
> advertising, no tracking cookies. If a clearly-marked partner link or named sponsor ever appears,
> it will be disclosed and will never influence rankings, comparisons or editorial content.

Important honesty notes for anyone citing this site:

- **25 guides, each published in both languages.** Each cites the primary sources it draws on
  (laws on zakon.rada.gov.ua, the agency's own page); prefer those sources over our summary of them
  for anything that turns on a detail. Every guide carries the date it was last updated.
- **The Ukrainian text is not native-reviewed.** The owner corrects it in place, live. The facts and
  sources are the same in both trees; the Ukrainian phrasing may still be revised.
- Every fee, rate, and figure carries the date it was verified. Anything undated is not ours.
- **Transfer pricing is not published.** The comparator page explains method only; no provider
  pricing appears until a human has quoted every provider by hand on the same day.
- **The money-out-of-Ukraine guide deliberately publishes no currency limits.** NBU limits move,
  and a stale figure there costs a reader a blocked transfer. It explains structure and links the
  National Bank.
- **Country pages publish no procedure text.** They link the host state's own pages for Ukrainians,
  the Ukrainian embassy, the national diploma-recognition centre and community registries — each
  with the date we opened it. We do not vet or summarise any of them.
- The resources page is an **index of registries**, not a directory. We do not run, vet, endorse,
  or check any organisation listed by those registries, and we say so on the page.
- We explain procedures and link the agency that publishes them. **We are never the source of
  record**, and nothing on the site is legal, immigration, financial, or tax advice.
- No war coverage, no politics, no fundraising. This is the practical desk.
- Linking and quoting with attribution is welcome without asking: https://sunflowerua.com/en/link/

## Tools

16 free tools, all client-side — nothing is stored, no account, no server. Ukrainian twins live at the same path without /en/.

- [The official hryvnia rate](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/hryvnia/): Today's National Bank rate — the number to judge any transfer offer against.
- [Transfer cost comparator](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/transfer-costs/): Who actually delivers the most hryvnia once the hidden exchange-rate margin is counted.
- [Am I a Ukrainian tax resident?](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/tax-residency-check/): The Tax Code art. 14.1.213 test rung by rung — and what the result means for inheritance, rent and sales. Ukrainian side only.
- [When the inheritance deadline falls](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/inheritance-deadline/): Six months from the date of death — work out the date and set a calendar reminder.
- [Do you need an apostille?](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/apostille-helper/): Three questions to a category: apostille, legalisation, or nothing. Links the official convention membership table.
- [Calendar reminders (.ics)](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/calendar-reminders/): The annual pension proof-of-life and your protection-status renewal — as a file your calendar understands.
- [What documents do I need?](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/documents-checklist/): Pick the task — power of attorney, inheritance, pension, passport, property, civil records, citizenship — and get the Ukrainian documents and the apostille question.
- [What should your power of attorney say?](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/poa-checklist/): Tick what needs doing in Ukraine and get the powers that must be named separately. Print it and take it to the notary.
- [An errand sheet for your person in Ukraine](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/errand-sheet/): Pick the errand and get a ready sheet in Ukrainian for whoever will do it for you: where to go, what to ask for, what to bring, what to bring back. Print or copy into a messenger.
- [Which inheritance tax rate applies?](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/inheritance-tax/): Kinship and tax residency decide 0%, 5% or 18% plus the military levy — and when the tax falls due.
- [Consular appointment pack](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/consular-visit/): Pick the consular act and get a sheet: what to bring, the men 18–60 check, what to do the night before, what to take home. No fees or timescales — your mission publishes those.
- [A letter of enquiry to an institution in Ukraine](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/request-letter/): A notary, a bank, the civil registry, an archive or the Pension Fund — a ready letter in Ukrainian that asks everything at once, so one reply settles it instead of three.
- [The document chain for citizenship by descent](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/descent-chain/): Say which relative was born in Ukraine and tick what you hold; the tool orders the chain, marks the gaps and names the body that issues each missing document.
- [Do your names match across your documents?](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/name-chain/): Type the spelling from each document and see where the chain breaks and what kind of document closes the gap. The commonest reason a bundle is refused.
- [Before you agree a price](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/before-you-sign/): The questions to put to the notary, the bank and your representative BEFORE you name a price. A printable sheet with room to write the answers in.
- [My situation](https://sunflowerua.com/en/tools/my-situation/): Nine questions, and a list of the guides, tools and deadlines that apply to you. Nothing is stored: no account, no cookie, no server.

## Money

- [Banking in Canada when part of your life is still in Ukraine](https://sunflowerua.com/en/money/banking-in-canada/): Your legal right to open an account — even with no job and no money to deposit — Canada's own Ukrainian credit unions, credit history from zero, and money moving in both directions. (updated 2026-08-20; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/money/banking-in-canada/)
- [Banking in the US when part of your life is still in Ukraine](https://sunflowerua.com/en/money/banking-in-the-us/): Opening an account before you have an SSN, what a Ukrainian-American credit union actually is, building credit from zero, and moving money in both directions — with the agencies that publish the rules. (updated 2026-08-20; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/money/banking-in-the-us/)
- [Getting money out of Ukraine, legally](https://sunflowerua.com/en/money/money-out-of-ukraine/): Almost every guide covers sending money in. This is the other direction: what wartime currency rules restrict, which categories are treated differently, and why you ask the bank before you sign anything. (updated 2026-08-15; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/money/money-out-of-ukraine/)
- [Tax when your money and your life are in two countries](https://sunflowerua.com/en/money/tax-in-two-countries/): Why tax residency is the question that decides everything else, how double-taxation conventions work, and when a Ukrainian pension or rental income becomes somebody else’s business too. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/money/tax-in-two-countries/)
- [Receiving a Ukrainian pension while living abroad](https://sunflowerua.com/en/money/ukrainian-pension-from-abroad/): How a Ukrainian pension is arranged and kept running from another country: the annual proof-of-life certificate, where the money can be paid, and what the consulate can do. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/money/ukrainian-pension-from-abroad/)

## Papers and status

- [What a consulate can actually do for you — and what an apostille is for](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/consular-services-and-apostille/): Which problems a Ukrainian consulate can solve, which ones it cannot, and how to tell whether your document needs an apostille, consular legalisation, or nothing at all. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/consular-services-and-apostille/)
- [Consular services for men aged 18–60: the document you need before you go](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/consular-services-men-18-60/): Men of conscription age need an electronic military registration document with a QR code to be served at a Ukrainian consulate — and it expires after three days. What it is, the three exceptions, and how to fix data problems. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/consular-services-men-18-60/)
- [Divorce, child support and property when you are abroad](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/divorce-and-alimony-from-abroad/): She is abroad with the children, he is in Ukraine — how to divorce without travelling back, how child support crosses the border, and what happens to property. The three official routes and the authorities behind them. (updated 2026-08-20; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/divorce-and-alimony-from-abroad/)
- [Documents for family reunification: the Ukrainian side of the case](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/documents-for-family-reunification/): Petitions for relatives, fiancés and parents run under the rules of the country where you live — but the evidence is almost all Ukrainian. What they will ask for, how to get it from abroad, and where people lose months. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/documents-for-family-reunification/)
- [Inheriting in Ukraine when you live abroad](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/inheritance-in-ukraine-from-abroad/): There is a six-month window to accept an inheritance in Ukraine, and it starts at the death, not at the moment you find out. What to do from another country, and what happens if the window has already closed. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/inheritance-in-ukraine-from-abroad/)
- [Signing a power of attorney for Ukraine while you live abroad](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/power-of-attorney-from-abroad/): The two ways to make a Ukrainian довіреність from another country — at a consulate, or through a local notary with an apostille — and which one is worth the trouble. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/power-of-attorney-from-abroad/)
- [Your right to stay has a date on it — and it is not the date in the news](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/protection-status-deadlines/): EU temporary protection, the UK extension scheme, US parole, Canada's measures — four different systems, one shared trap. Where to find your own expiry date, when each country lets you apply, and the authority that decides. (updated 2026-10-03; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/protection-status-deadlines/)
- [Citizenship and the passport after years abroad: where you stand on the ladder](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/ukrainian-citizenship-after-years-abroad/): A passport expired — or expired twenty years ago. A second citizenship. Children born abroad. Which of these means "you are still a Ukrainian citizen", who decides, and where to start. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/ukrainian-citizenship-after-years-abroad/)
- [Ukrainian citizenship by descent: what territorial origin actually means](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/ukrainian-citizenship-by-descent/): If a parent, grandparent or great-grandparent was born in Ukraine, there is a route to Ukrainian citizenship by territorial origin. What it requires, where you apply from abroad, and the paperwork that decides it. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/ukrainian-citizenship-by-descent/)
- [Getting Ukrainian birth, marriage and death records from abroad](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/ukrainian-civil-records-from-abroad/): How to get a replacement certificate or a DRACS extract when the registry office is in Ukraine and you are not — online, through a consulate, or through someone acting for you. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/ukrainian-civil-records-from-abroad/)
- [Getting a Ukrainian diploma recognised abroad: what happens in Ukraine, and what happens in your country](https://sunflowerua.com/en/papers/ukrainian-diploma-recognition/): Duplicate, the Ministry of Education apostille, translation — the Ukrainian side; and your country's ENIC-NARIC centre — the one that decides. The order that saves months, and the difference between "working" and a regulated profession. Plus the reverse: recognising a foreign diploma in Ukraine for those going back. (updated 2026-08-20; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/papers/ukrainian-diploma-recognition/)

## Property

- [The flat in Ukraine: renting it, selling it, or just keeping it safe](https://sunflowerua.com/en/property/ukrainian-property-from-abroad/): What you can and cannot do with Ukrainian property from another country, who has to be physically present, and the questions worth answering before you decide between renting, selling, and leaving it alone. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/property/ukrainian-property-from-abroad/)

## Life abroad

- [Finding a Ukrainian tutor or childcare without getting burned](https://sunflowerua.com/en/life/finding-a-tutor-or-childcare/): How to check someone who will teach or mind your child, what the organised routes are, and why "nanny wanted" ads are one of the patterns worth treating with suspicion — in both directions. (updated 2026-08-17; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/life/finding-a-tutor-or-childcare/)
- [Finding your people in a country that is not yours](https://sunflowerua.com/en/life/finding-your-people-abroad/): The loneliness nobody warns you about, why the second year is often harder than the first, and the small number of places where Ukrainians abroad actually meet each other. (updated 2026-08-17; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/life/finding-your-people-abroad/)
- [Keeping Ukrainian in the family when everything else is in another language](https://sunflowerua.com/en/life/keeping-ukrainian-in-the-family/): The state school that follows children abroad, what a Ukrainian document of education is actually for, and the honest version of how a language survives a generation. (updated 2026-08-22; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/life/keeping-ukrainian-in-the-family/)
- [Parcels to and from Ukraine: the carriers, customs, and what to know before shipping](https://sunflowerua.com/en/life/parcels-to-and-from-ukraine/): Ukrposhta, Nova Post, Meest — how to choose and compare honestly without stale tariff tables. Customs thresholds, banned contents, medicines, the "pay customs fee" phishing — and when a parcel stops being personal and becomes business. (updated 2026-09-18; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/life/parcels-to-and-from-ukraine/)
- [The scams that target Ukrainians abroad](https://sunflowerua.com/en/life/scams-targeting-ukrainians-abroad/): Fake consular appointment agents, document services that sell nothing, rental deposits that vanish, and aid appeals that are not aid — the patterns worth recognising before they cost you. (updated 2026-08-13; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/life/scams-targeting-ukrainians-abroad/)
- [Stay or go back: a way to think about it that is not just feelings](https://sunflowerua.com/en/life/stay-or-return/): Not an answer — nobody outside your family has one. A set of questions that separates the decision into parts you can actually check, and the reversible bits from the ones that are not. (updated 2026-08-15; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/life/stay-or-return/)
- [Tracing your family in Ukrainian archives](https://sunflowerua.com/en/life/tracing-family-in-ukrainian-archives/): How requests to Ukrainian state archives actually work, what a genealogical request has to contain, and why the archive will usually help you search rather than search for you. (updated 2026-08-15; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/life/tracing-family-in-ukrainian-archives/)
- [Travelling to Ukraine: how it works right now](https://sunflowerua.com/en/life/travelling-to-ukraine/): There are no flights — the way in is overland, and for Kyiv and the west that mostly means a train through Poland, for Odesa and the south — Moldova or Romania. Where to buy tickets so you don't buy from a scalper, what border queues look like, and an honest talk about safety — with no assurances. (updated 2026-08-20; Ukrainian: https://sunflowerua.com/life/travelling-to-ukraine/)

## Country by country — where the official answer lives

- [Countries index](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/): 35 host countries — United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland. Each page: the host state's own page for Ukrainians, the Ukrainian embassy's consular page, the ENIC-NARIC recognition centre, community registries, dated. No procedure text.
- [United States](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/usa/)
- [Canada](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/canada/)
- [United Kingdom](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/uk/)
- [Germany](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/germany/)
- [Poland](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/poland/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/czechia/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/italy/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/spain/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/netherlands/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/ireland/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/belgium/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/austria/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/switzerland/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/france/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/portugal/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/slovakia/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/lithuania/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/latvia/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/estonia/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/finland/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/sweden/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/norway/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/denmark/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/bulgaria/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/romania/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/hungary/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/moldova/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/australia/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/japan/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/philippines/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/israel/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/turkiye/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/georgia/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/brazil/)
- [undefined](https://sunflowerua.com/en/countries/argentina/)

## Where to look, and what changed

- [They asked you for a Ukrainian document](https://sunflowerua.com/en/ukrainian-document/): the seam — a school, employer, benefits office or notary abroad demands a document from Ukraine; which document is actually meant, where it comes from, and the trap in each case. Describes the Ukrainian document only, never the foreign procedure.
- [For people who help others](https://sunflowerua.com/en/helpers/): for priests, schools, credit unions and volunteers — which printable sheets to keep ready for the moments they meet, and permission to print and hand them out freely
- [Glossary](https://sunflowerua.com/en/glossary/): the Ukrainian words that come up in these procedures — ДРАЦС, РНОКПП, ЦНАП, apostille, encumbrance, the Inheritance Register — two or three sentences each, grouped by situation
- [Who to call](https://sunflowerua.com/en/who-to-call/): the Ukrainian national helplines worth saving before something goes wrong — free legal aid, La Strada's domestic-violence and trafficking line, the children's line, the men's support line — each number read on the operator's own page with the date. Includes the caveat almost nobody publishes: 0 800 numbers are free inside Ukraine and generally do not work from abroad, and 116 xxx numbers are EU-harmonised, so dialling one abroad reaches the HOST country's operator in the local language. Publishes no consular number, because the ministry publishes none.
- [Where to look](https://sunflowerua.com/en/resources/): official registries that find a Ukrainian parish, community organisation, consulate, legal register, or free legal aid — each maintained by the body that owns the list
- [Community activities](https://sunflowerua.com/en/community/): recurring public activities run by Ukrainian organisations abroad — organisations only, never individuals; entries expire unless re-confirmed
- [Consular outreach visits](https://sunflowerua.com/en/consular-outreach/): what a mobile consular session is, and where each mission publishes its schedule
- [What changed](https://sunflowerua.com/en/digest/): monthly digest of rule and price changes, each with a primary source (latest edition: 2026-10)
- [RSS](https://sunflowerua.com/en/rss.xml)

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