How to get orphan status and what documents are needed for this?

To grant a child the status of an orphan or a child deprived of parental care, the children's affairs service at the child's place of origin must collect the necessary documents within two months (the child's birth certificate and documents certifying the circumstances under which the child was left without parental care).

Documents that must be provided to the representative body of local self-government in order to receive the service:

1) Petition of the Children's Service

2) A copy of the child's birth certificate

3) An act in the form approved by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Internal Affairs about an abandoned child whose parents are unknown, abandoned in a maternity hospital, another health care facility or refused to be picked up from these facilities by parents or other relatives

4) An act drawn up by the children's affairs service in a form that confirms the parents' failure to fulfill their obligations to raise and maintain the child for reasons that cannot be ascertained in connection with the parents' stay in the temporarily occupied territory or in the area of the anti-terrorist operation operations

5) Court verdict on the imposition of a sentence to be served in places of deprivation of liberty

6) Conclusion of the medical and advisory commission of the health care institution about the presence of a disease in the father, mother, which prevents them from fulfilling their parental duties, issued in accordance with the procedure established by the Ministry of Health

7) A copy of the death certificate of the child's mother/father

8) Court decision on recognition of missing mother/father

9) Court decision on recognition of the child's mother/father as incompetent

10) Court decision on taking the child away from the mother/father without deprivation of parental rights

11) Court decision to declare the child's father/mother dead, which is confirmed by a death certificate issued by civil status registration authorities

12) Court decision on deprivation of parental rights of the child's mother/father

13) Decision of the investigating judge on choosing a measure of preventive measure, during the implementation of criminal proceedings, such as detention

14) Court order or certificate of the internal affairs authorities on the search for the father/mother and the lack of information about their whereabouts, which is connected with evasion of the payment of alimony and the lack of information about their whereabouts

*During the period of martial law on the territory of Ukraine, the decision to grant the status of an orphan child or a child deprived of parental care is made by the authorized bodies at the place of residence (stay) or identification of the child, taking into account the documents confirming the child's status.

In the event that there is no certificate of the death or death of the parents or the death or death of the parents is not registered by the relevant authorities, the status of a child deprived of parental care is established for the child until the moment of documentary confirmation of the death or death of the parents.*