Forced Passportization

Aggressors may mass-impose their citizenship and issue the metropole's state-standard documents to residents of occupied territories. Coercing the Indigenous people into obtaining new passports under threat of losing basic rights, medical care, or property allows the colonizer to artificially integrate the population into its legal framework, convert them into the status of its own subjects, and justify the continued retention of the region as the "protection of its citizens."

ID: T0035
Sub-techniques:  No sub-techniques
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0103 Full-Scale Invasion (from February 24, 2022)

Coercion of residents of the occupied territories (Mariupol, Kherson, and others) into obtaining Russian passports. Refusal of the aggressor's passport entails the threat of being deprived of housing, medical care, and basic social services.

S0024 Police Apparatus

Coercion of residents of the occupied territories (Mariupol, Kherson, and others) into obtaining Russian passports. Refusal of the aggressor's passport entails the threat of being deprived of housing, medical care, and basic social services.

G0011 Russian Federation

Coercion of residents of the occupied territories (Mariupol, Kherson, and others) into obtaining Russian passports. Refusal of the aggressor's passport entails the threat of being deprived of housing, medical care, and basic social services.