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About 500,000 people received Russian citizenship in 2019

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About 500,000 people received Russian citizenship in 2019


26.02.2020

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About half a million people have become Russian citizens over the past year, RIA Novosti reports. According to Russian Minister of the Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev, this number is more than double the average annual rate for the past decade.

In 2019, 227 thousand residents of the DPR and LPR received Russian citizenship.

Every day, 1–1.5 thousand citizens residing in unrecognized republics apply to the reception centers for citizenship documents. The growth in the number of issued Russian passports was significantly affected by a decree of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on a simplified procedure for granting Russian citizenship to residents of the DPR and LPR signed on April 24.

The list of professions giving their holders the right to a simplified procedure for obtaining a Russian passport has almost doubled to 135 variants.

In the autumn of 2019, the required work experience for foreigners wishing to become Russian citizens was officially reduced.

The procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship is going to be facilitated. Changes in the legislation will allow applicants to become Russian citizens without giving up other citizenships. The relevant amendments were prepared by the government. The document proposes to abandon the norm, which makes the applicant for citizenship apply to the authorities of other countries with a statement on renunciation of citizenship.

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