Ukraine Visa Cost Calculator

The tourist visa is Ukraine's workhorse category: single entry, tourism or family visits, and the $65 base fee this calculator starts from. Travellers who expect to cross a border and return — regional side trips, contiguous-country loops — take the multi-entry visa at 1.5× base, $98 for Ukraine. Business visas cost 2.5× base ($163) because they clear a different review path: expect to attach an invitation letter from your Ukraine host company.

A $20 transit endorsement legalises a short Ukraine layover — typically 24–72 hours — without a full application behind it. Consulate routes for Ukraine often carry service-charge add-ons beyond the base fee, so treat the calculator's total as the government's cut, not the whole bill.

Four inputs drive a Ukraine application: a passport valid six months beyond your stay, one compliant photo, proof of accommodation, and evidence you can fund the trip. Applications for Ukraine go in through a single designated channel per traveller; the consulate returns mixed-channel files unprocessed. The $65 base fee is payable by card on Ukraine's portal, or in UAH equivalent where the application is made in person.

Expect silence rather than updates: Ukraine rarely confirms receipt mid-review, so screenshot every submission page as you go. Apply as soon as flights are provable — Ukraine issues decisions against documents, and a complete early file is the cheapest insurance there is.

The passport rules are absolute — 6 months' validity beyond your Ukraine exit date and two clean pages for the visa itself. Photos fail applications quietly: print two spares, keep the digital originals, and use a likeness from the last six months for Ukraine's file. Three months of statements demonstrating $50–100 per day is the funds benchmark for Ukraine; scrub nothing, redact nothing.

A booked (not necessarily paid) return ticket and accommodation covering every night in Ukraine complete the core file. Business applicants add the Ukraine host company's invitation; transit applicants add the confirmed onward ticket — those two categories fail on missing paperwork more than fee errors.

The standard Ukraine decision typically lands within 5–15 business days, and seasonal backlogs push it to the top of that band. Express handling compresses the wait to 1–3 business days and multiplies the fee by 1.5 — $98 instead of $65 for a tourist visa to Ukraine. Incomplete files, not bad histories, cause the bulk of Ukraine rejections — one missing night of lodging is enough.

Fix-then-refile is the normal path after a Ukraine denial; the fee is due again, so get the file right the second time. Consular calendars matter more than the published queue for Ukraine — local holidays on either side of the desk can add a week silently.