OREANDA-NEWS. August 12, 2009. According to the Ukrainian mass media, the respective order of the State Border Service of Ukraine’s Administration was passed basing on the Ukrainian Government’s N445 decree published in early June obliging Moldovan citizens along with citizens of another 89 countries (mostly Asian and African countries) to confirm availability of financial coverage of their stay, transit and departure from Ukraine when crossing the Ukrainian state border.

From now on, every Moldovan citizen crossing the Moldovan-Ukrainian border has to be ready to declare US50 for each day of his/her stay in Ukraine basing on the necessity of having money 20 times more than the living wage fixed in Ukraine for a month of staying in that country. The financial coverage will be selectively controlled in the terminals of crossing through Ukraine’s state border during interviews with foreigners or persons without citizenship with participation of at least two frontiersmen.

Money availability is established by the visual examination of cash in Ukraine’s national currency or converted foreign currency according to the National Bank’s exchange rate, check-up of the document with amounts of money pointed out serving as a basis for receiving money in banks, examination of payment cars of international payment systems and of the extract from the personal bank account of the declarant.

Border guards will also study documents confirming reservation or payment for dwelling, food in Ukraine, the travel service agreement and will check-up the travel ticket for return with a fixed date to the country of a person’s citizenship or residence. If a sufficient financial coverage is available, a foreigner or a person without citizenship will be able to cross the state border, otherwise – the decree on the ban to cross the state border is passed and measures are taken to return the person to the country he is leaving.