Document #1124062
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
In a telephone interview on 21 February
1995, an official at the Embassy of Ukraine in Ottawa stated that
there is no law requiring the relatives of a deceased person to
return that person's birth certificate to the state. However,
relatives of the deceased person occasionally do so on a voluntary
basis.
In a telephone interview on 22 February
1995, a documentalist at the Ukrainian Information Centre, a
nongovernmental human rights organization in Amsterdam, stated that
the deceased person's relatives are required by law to take the
deceased person's birth certificate to a special state agency. The
documentalist stated that he does not know the name of the specific
law that refers to this requirement. The documentalist added that
it is likely this special state agency falls under the jurisdiction
of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Embassy of Ukraine, Ottawa. 21 February
1995. Telephone interview with official.
Ukrainian Information Centre, Amsterdam.
22 February 1995. Telephone interview with documentalist.