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Defined the list and functions of the operational bodies authorized to counter the criminal activity in the international student exchange. Outlined the legal problems that occur in the activities of bodies, whose competence is counteracting the criminal offense. Defined the ways of solving these problems.

It notes that the main crimes in the international student exchange is illegal migration in the form of trafficking the persons across the state border of Ukraine. These crimes are mostly combined with others, which can differentiate into two categories: those that are necessary for the smooth committing illegal migration (obtaining undue advantage by an official forgery of documents, seals, stamps, use of forged documents, etc.) and those for the commission of which the illegal migration doing (espionage, sabotage, terrorism, crime in economic activity, human trafficking, etc.).

Among the operative units of law enforcement agencies counteracting of crimes is investigated operational units of the National Police, the Security Service of Ukraine and the State Border Service (under the jurisdiction specified by the Criminal Code of Ukraine), authorized to prevent the occurrence of specified criminal offenses, detect and take part in their pre-trial investigation in the form of execution the prosecutor's orders in the investigation (search) actions including undercover ones. For some cases, these functions may be execute by the operational units the other law enforcement bodies.

Keywords: crimes in international student exchange, operational units, operational-investigative activity, criminal process.