The beginning of the 21st century turned into a series of serious disasters for Ukraine, which include the crisis of the 2000s, which caused the fall of the economy and the increase of internal and external debts, the annexation of Crimea and the eastern

This article deals with the issues concerning the legal status and administrative liability of foreigners and stateless persons. It investigates the peculiarities of bringing foreigners and stateless persons to legal liability under administrative law. The legislation under which foreigners and stateless persons are brought to administrative liability has been analysed. Administrative coercion measures that can be applied to foreigners and stateless persons have been investigated. The article considers issues of arrangements for cases concerning foreigners and stateless persons, in particular, which are considered within civil proceedings, customs, and administrative proceedings, the peculiarities of the implementation of decisions concerning foreigners and stateless persons. The shortcomings of the mechanism for bringing foreigners to administrative liability have been identified. The imperfection and ineffectiveness of the mechanism for bringing foreigners who are subject to an administrative liability in the form of a fine to administrative liability, and collisions and gaps in migration legislation have been highlighted. Two ways of solving the identified problems are proposed: improving national legislation and concluding mutual assistance agreements. It has been substantiated that the mechanism for bringing foreigners and stateless persons to administrative liability should provide for the influence of the authorities or the state on the violator during the period when he or she is still in the state where the crime was committed. Methods of bringing to liability during the period when a foreigner has already left the state’s territory are important only in the case of committing serious offenses, including crimes. It was proposed to consolidate certain changes in the legislation.