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XREQUIEM collects the deceased from any town in Portugal and brings them to your town in Ukraine. We register the death, obtain the livre-trânsito from the police and prepare the Ukrainian papers, then travel by a connecting flight and by road. The price starts from €4,800. Expect the journey to take from 24 hours after collection.
Oleg Zdendiak, ownerpersonally responsible for every case 
“You were always available, whatever the time…” — Віта Х. “Everything was organised with great dignity, professionally and with attention to every detail.” — Тамара Ю. “Every question was resolved promptly, with respect and attention to detail.” — Olha B. “…your support, compassion, sense of responsibility and professionalism meant a great deal to us.” — Ірина Б. “It all went quickly and professionally…” — Оля К. from €4,800 including documents, the coffin, the flight and the road to your town. We will give you the exact price within 5 minutes.
The price includes:
What changes the total: the city and distance, the route (road or air), the country’s documents, preparation of the body. More about prices →
Summary. From Portugal, we charge from €4,800 for papers, coffin and transport to your town; a funeral in Ukraine is booked separately. Few of our routes are longer, so we usually fly with a change of planes (the flight itself from 2.5 hours) and finish by road. By land the way leads through Spain, France, Germany and Poland. Portuguese law puts registration first: no livre-trânsito from the police until the death is on record. Allow 24 hours or more from collection to arrival. Give us the town and the address, and you will have the figure within 5 minutes.
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Portuguese law allows neither burial nor sealing the coffin until the death is on record: there must be a death entry (assento) or a death bulletin (boletim de óbito). So registration comes first, and wherever we can we prepare the Ukrainian papers alongside it. XREQUIEM runs the case from your first call until the family receives the deceased. We speak Ukrainian, English, Polish and German.
We find out where the deceased is now: a hospital, a morgue or at home, and which papers you already hold. You hear the price during that same call.
At the civil registry office (conservatória do registo civil). Outside its opening hours, at weekends and on public holidays, the death bulletin is issued by the police.
The carrier must have it with them the whole time the coffin is on the road.
In Portuguese it is called livre-trânsito. It is issued by the police.
We translate the Portuguese papers into Ukrainian, certify the translations, obtain the certificate of no prohibited items and file everything with the Embassy in Lisbon or the Consulate in Porto.
For the flight, the coffin is also placed in rigid packaging.
We fly with a change of planes, and our vehicle drives from the airport near the border to your town.
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There are only a few Portuguese documents, but the order matters: until the death is registered, the next papers will not be issued. Below is who issues what.
The Portuguese burial law refers directly to the 1973 Strasbourg Agreement on the transfer of corpses. That is why the livre-trânsito is the paper a coffin carries across European borders. Ukraine never signed the Agreement, so for our border we assemble a separate set. What it contains is listed on the Documents page.
Ukraine has two missions in Portugal: the Embassy in Lisbon and the Consulate in Porto. We choose which one to approach according to where the death occurred.
For a Portuguese death certificate to be valid in Ukraine, it needs an apostille or legalisation. We sort this out before the coffin leaves. More on the What to do if a loved one dies abroad page.
From Portugal to the Ukrainian border, the road crosses the whole of Europe. That is why, from Portugal, we more often choose a flight. We go by road all the way if the family decides so.
We go to Lisbon, Porto, Faro, Coimbra, Setúbal, Braga or any other town or village. If the family cannot take charge of the body at once, the police move it to the morgue of the National Institute of Legal Medicine in Lisbon, Porto or Coimbra, or to the nearest morgue with a cold room. We collect from there as well. Name the town, and we will tell you the route and the amount.
Most often we fly with a change of planes to Warsaw, Rzeszów or Chișinău and drive on from there. There are no direct flights to Ukraine to promise. Time in the air is from 2.5 hours.
By road the route runs through Spain, France, Germany and Poland to the Ukrainian border. It is long, but possible if the family would rather have it that way.
From 24 hours once we have collected the body. How soon we can set off is decided by the Portuguese paperwork.
Portuguese law allows the zinc liner to be sealed no earlier than 24 hours after death, and only after registration. Earlier sealing is possible only on a written order from the health authority when there is a risk to public health. For a plane or a ship the coffin goes into rigid packaging marked “Handle with care” (MANUSEAR COM PRECAUÇÃO), and on the road it may travel only in a vehicle reserved for this purpose. The Ukrainian border also wants a hermetic metal coffin under seal, so one coffin satisfies both sides. Customs clearance goes on a written application with documents, which we prepare. More on the Air transport page.
Body from Portugal from €4,800The “from” figure pays for everything between collection in Portugal and handover in your town. Burial or cremation in Ukraine is arranged and paid for separately.
The price includes:
Coffin of your choice and urn: free of charge.
Four things shape the total: where in Portugal we collect and how far that is from an airport, whether we fly or drive all the way, which coffin the family picks, and where in Ukraine we are heading. For comparison, see the Prices page.
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If your relative is already buried in Portugal, we arrange the exhumation and bring the remains home to Ukraine for reburial. Our exhumation costs from €500 plus the cost of transport, with no prepayment.
From €4,800. It is a long-distance route, and the amount already includes registration of the death, the livre-trânsito, the Ukrainian documents, the zinc-lined coffin, the flight and the road from the airport home. A funeral in Ukraine is separate. The final amount depends on the city in Portugal, the type of transport and the town in Ukraine.
Allow from 24 hours between collection and arrival in Ukraine. Paperwork is usually the slowest part, which is why we run the Portuguese and Ukrainian files side by side whenever the law allows.
The Portuguese rules require this: the death is registered first, and then a minimum period after death must pass. The details are in the section “What coffin is needed” above. We make sure these steps run without delays.
It is called livre-trânsito. It is the document that lets the body cross borders. It is issued by the police, the GNR or the PSP. We obtain it ourselves.
Ukraine has an Embassy in Lisbon and a Consulate in Porto. Which of the two takes the papers depends on where the death occurred. We submit the documents ourselves, so you do not need to travel.
You do not have to visit the conservatória or the police: we register the death and get the livre-trânsito. We ask the family for the deceased's passport or a photo of it, your own passport, proof of kinship and a power of attorney in our name. If you live in Portugal, you can sign it there. If you are in Ukraine, we will tell you how to do it locally.
Portugal's transport law does not demand embalming as such. Some airlines, however, take only embalmed bodies on board, so it comes down to the flight. Preparation of the body is included in the price, and if embalming is needed we will say so beforehand. More on the Preparing the body page, and on coffins in the article Coffin and embalming for bringing a body to Ukraine.
Before you agree to an offer from a funeral home or a hospital in Portugal, send us a photo of the policy. The insurer usually has to approve the costs in advance, otherwise the compensation can be lost. Over such a distance a policy often covers only the flight to an airport near Ukraine, so we will calculate the road from there separately and tell you at once.
Anywhere in Portugal, from big cities to small villages. A hospital, a morgue, a legal medicine institute or a private home: give us the address, and we come as soon as the death is on record.
Yes. Outside a cemetery, Portuguese law lets ashes travel freely in a suitable container. Ukraine admits the urn with the death certificate and a certificate of no prohibited items legalised by the consulate, and we book its place on board with the airline in advance. Transport of an urn costs from €800. More on the Transport of an urn with ashes page.
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