The State Migration Service should develop a special procedure for obtaining passports for people from the occupied territories who previously did not have Ukrainian documents, says Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereschuk.

"Modern legislation, what happened during peacetime, provides that if a person did not have a passport, but received an occupier's passport, then our state does not recognize the certificate that he provides. It is difficult to identify such a person. The passport officer who stamps and issues the passport must take responsibility. And I understand them in a human dimension," Vereschuk told reporters in Kyiv on Thursday.

At the same time, she complained that for a long time the authorities have not been able to find a solution that will allow them to quickly and painlessly issue a so-called interim document to a person, and later issue a permanent passport.

"Now the Migration Service has promised to develop a special procedure for such people, especially young people who want to leave and escape from the occupation, how to get such a transitional document, and then get a passport," Vereschuk added.

The Deputy Prime Minister noted that the difficulty lies in the fact that such people who did not receive documents in Ukraine before the start of the occupation are not on the lists of the State Migration Service or on the voter lists, and there are no other ways to identify them, and there are no photos in the birth certificates.