THE PROBLEM OF STATELESSNESS IN UKRAINE AND THE WAYS OF ADDRESSING IT The Family Code of Ukraine. It is necessary to establish the stateless persons’ right to be adopters, guardians or tutors, foster parents, or caregiving parents by means of making appropriate amendments to the Family Code of Ukraine, and to eliminate the provisions according to which adopted children may only maintain citizenship of Ukraine until attainment of majority. The Criminal Code of Ukraine. It is reasonable to renew the provision of Article 10 concerning the prohibition on extradition of the stateless persons permanently residing in Ukraine. Amendments are recommended for the following subordinate regulatory legal acts: The Procedure for proceedings on applications and claims concerning citizenship of Ukraine and for execution of decisions made. The current version of the Procedure fails to regulate the access to the procedure of legalization of Ukrainian citizenship for the children born in places of confinement. In this view, it is necessary to make appropriate amendments aimed at promoting the documentation as citizens by such children. It is also reasonable to eliminate the provisions establishing the requirements on a minimum amount of a legal livelihood as a condition for admitting to citizenship of Ukraine. These provisions considerably complicate access of foreigners and stateless persons to the procedure of admission to citizenship of Ukraine or even make the access impossible. Besides, it is worth deleting the provisions laying on foreigners and stateless persons the burden to prove the absence of circumstances that make their admission to citizenship of Ukraine impossible. The Rules of State Registration of Civil Status Acts in Ukraine. In pursuance of the provisions to be amended in the Law of Ukraine on Registration of Civil Status Acts, it will be necessary to regulate the procedure of birth registration of a child whose mother is not married and has no passport, of a child whose parents have no passport documents or legitimate grounds to stay in the territory of Ukraine, of children who have attained 16 years of age and the procedure of establishing the fact of a person’s birth. The Procedure for execution, production and issuance of a permanent residence permit and a temporary residence permit. The procedure should incorporate provisions for issuance of residence permits to stateless individuals who are not able to get documented by another country, including former USSR citizens who lost their ex-USSR citizen passports. It should also provide for an effective opportunity for issuance of residence permits to foreigners and stateless 41