{"id":3449,"date":"2026-09-09T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:32:42","slug":"17-year-entry-ban-pilgrim-with-a-forged-passport-caught-in-uman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/17-year-entry-ban-pilgrim-with-a-forged-passport-caught-in-uman\/","title":{"rendered":"17-Year Entry Ban: Pilgrim with a Forged Passport Caught in Uman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasidic pilgrims continue to arrive in Uman for the Jewish New Year celebrations. At the same time, immigration officials are conducting enhanced checks on foreigners and stateless persons. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/udmsck\/posts\/pfbid0mhiXZC8jQipwMPUneEWPuePpeJ2qR82CrcgyyuSgo89kASACFEYU7otWV9vtPp7gl\">was reported by<\/a> the Migration Service of the Kirovohrad and Cherkasy regions.<\/p>\n<p>Since September 4, employees of the Uman Department of the Central-Southern Interregional Directorate of the State Migration Service have been working in an enhanced mode and monitoring foreigners\u2019 compliance with Ukrainian law.<\/p>\n<p>On September 7, during a joint operation to check the locations where Hasidic pilgrims were staying, officers from the Uman Division of the Central-Southern Interregional Directorate of the State Migration Service, together with the Strategic Investigations Department in Cherkasy Oblast, identified a 23-year-old Israeli citizen.<\/p>\n<p>During a document check, the man presented a foreign passport with signs of forgery. It later emerged that he was already subject to a valid three-year ban on entry into Ukraine, which had previously been imposed by the Uman Department of the State Migration Service.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ban, the man traveled to Israel, where he stayed for about a year, and then decided to return to Uman for the holidays. To circumvent the restriction, he used another person\u2019s passport, into which his own photograph had been pasted.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration officials issued a decision on the compulsory deportation of the Israeli citizen. During the night, the man was taken to the state border and deported from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he was banned from entering Ukraine for five years. A further 10-year ban was imposed for failure to comply with a previously issued decision. At the same time, a previous two-year ban remains in effect.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the total duration of the ban on entry into Ukraine for the 23-year-old foreign national will be 17 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpm_excerpt clearfix\"><p>Hasidic pilgrims continue to arrive in Uman for the Jewish New Year celebrations. At the same time, immigration officials are conducting enhanced checks on foreigners and &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umantravel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}