Category Civil Registry & Documents

A notary asks for an extract, not a certificate. A foreign bank wants “a fresh document straight from the register.” A court returns your filing because it needs confirmation from the civil registry (DRATS). All of these situations point to…

You are filing marriage documents in Poland, Italy, or Germany, and the checklist asks for a “certificate of marital status.” You go to DRATS, and they tell you no such document exists. That is actually true: Ukraine abolished the standalone…

Ukrainian documents do not work abroad on their own. A birth certificate issued in Kyiv is just a piece of paper with unfamiliar stamps to a German registry office or an Italian municipality. For it to be accepted, it needs…

A birth certificate gets lost in a move, burned, left behind in an occupied area, or simply worn out to the point of being unreadable. It is unpleasant, but not critical: the fact of birth itself has not disappeared. It…