Bickel

That is a possibility I think. She can easily get into Russia. We were hoping to be able to fly her out of Russia to the US with a refugee visa. If that isn't possible, we'll take your advice and try a land crossing. There's so much confused information about if she needs a valid passport to cross from Russia to Estonia or Latvia. If worse comes to worse we'll just try it. The worse that can happen is she's turned back. Thanks for your thoughts.

That is our fear, that'll she need an unexpired passport. We're hoping we can just get her approved for refugee visa and get her out of there. Thank you for you reply.

My Mother-in-law lives in the Russian occupied Eastern Ukraine. To date she has not been willing to leave her home and join us in the US. Now things are getting more serious in her town and she is wanting to leave The biggest problem we have is her Ukraine Passport expired in March 2023. She cannot get to Kyiv to get her passport renewed. She can exit to Russia but there is no, as we understand, Ukraine consulate support in Russia. Any suggestions on how to get her from Donbas to US? Can she use an expired Ukraine Passport to get to US if our sponsorship is approved? Anyway to get from Russia to Ukraine just using her Ukraine inside passport? Any other suggestions? Thanks much for your attention.