Yuliana was born in Moldova but spent most of her life in state orphanages in southern Ukraine. After graduating from the orphanage, she looked for a variety of jobs to support her brother but ended up being trafficked into domestic servitude after accepting a housekeeping job with a wealthy Roma family. After months in captivity, the family made their way to Russia, where Yuliana's documents were not in order and she was freed. She received rehabilitation services in Kyiv, and applied to obtain the victim of trafficking status in accordance with a policy adopted by the Ukrainian government in 2011. As a citizen of Moldova who was now on the radar of the Ukrainian government, she needed to obtain the victim of trafficking status to be able to remain in Ukraine. In order to obtain this status, she had to travel back to her village and the site of her exploitation, 12 hours away by train, to file the paperwork. She had to make numerous trips to her village in order to fill out paperwork, identify her traffickers, provide testimony for the police investigation, sign paperwork, and testify against her traffickers. The process for application was very unclear and she had to visit numerous government agencies including lawyers, social workers, and police in order to navigate the ambiguous application process. After weeks of travel and document preparation, she was the first person in Ukraine to obtain victim of trafficking status in January 2012. The granting of this status meant that she was able to receive a one-time monetary payment from the Ukrainian government, which, after numerous tries by the NGO that was assisting her, was never obtained. According to the new law, she was also able to apply for a temporary residence permit in Ukraine, but again repeated attempts to obtain a residency permit were rebuffed by government bureaucrats who did not know what the status was, how to apply for residency with it, or how long it entitled Yuliana to stay in Ukraine. To this day Yuliana has only the certificate stating that she is a victim of trafficking to show as her legal claim of residency in Ukraine (Lena, 2014).