The head of the Federal migration service of Russia Konstantin Romodanovsky hopes that the new law on simplified citizenship of the Russian Federation will work in full force since 1 August.
" I think that from August 1, the law will work in full force, " Romodanovsky said at a traditional meeting with the government members.
He said that, according to the document on simplified registration of the citizenship, a person must meet four criteria: to move to the Russian Federation, have relatives, non-stop living in the Russian Federation, to be a carrier of the Russian language, which will determine the special Commission, and He shall be obliged to renounce their former citizenship. In the end people will be able to obtain Russian citizenship during the year, and not as eight years, as it was before.
Romodanovsky emphasized that the Residents of Ukraine who have fled their country because of the fighting, have the opportunity to be difficulties with legal registration of the refusal of the Ukrainian citizenship. Because of this, He said, it is proposed to simplify the procedure and to be limited to a statement of renunciation of citizenship and the Declaration of the person about what to renounce their former citizenship He cannot force majeure.
in addition, Romodanovsky said that proposed for inclusion in the state program of support of compatriots immigrants from Ukraine.
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