Five thousand Ukrainians living without residence in the Crimea, submitted to the migration service of the statement About registration of Russian citizenship, said the head of the Federal migration service Konstantin Romodanovsky.
After the annexation of Crimea to Russia, all the inhabitants of the Peninsula automatically became citizens of Russia, wrote the corresponding refusal of citizenship. However, According to Romodanovsky, quite the majority of Ukrainian citizens has arrived in Crimea on temporary jobs, and now want to stay and obtain Russian citizenship. There are families where, for example, the wife is old, and her husband is registered in Ukraine but resides in the Crimea. Or the bought property in the Crimea, they do, but do not have time to register.
" The problem of common citizens want as quickly as possible to become the Russians, but the cases are private and for each one must find a way to deal in accordance with the laws. Thus, in the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol accepted for consideration more than 5 thousand applications for checking presence Or absence of Russian citizenship from Residents of Ukraine, " Romodanovsky said in an interview that will be published on Wednesday.
Answering the question About the chances of these people to become citizens of Russia, head of the Federal migration service said That the check - in procedure objective, and in each case will be made a conclusion About presence of Russian citizenship because of the law of the Russian Federation.
" As for the acquisition of Russian citizenship to residents of Ukraine in the future, the chances are very solid. In may the Law " On citizenship of the Russian Federation " was amended, providing for a simplified order of acquisition of citizenship by native Russian language. They will be able to obtain citizenship, bypassing the stage of a temporary residence permit, provided That They Or their relatives in the direct ascending line lived in the square of the Russian Federation in its current borders, and among them in the Crimea ", - said the head of the service.
He said That the key rules - knowledge of Russian language and resettlement on a platform of Russia.
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