Up to 4 thousand Ukrainians with Czech roots want to move to Czech Republic
Alexander Kuranov. Up to 4 thousand immigrants from Ukraine and I want to go to the Czech Republic, with the influx of statements from the Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Ukraine Ivan Poczuj requested staff support from the foreign Ministry and the interior Ministry.

Alexander Kuranov. Up to 4 thousand immigrants from Ukraine and I want to go to the Czech Republic, with the influx of statements from the Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Ukraine Ivan Poczuj requested staff support from the foreign Ministry and the interior Ministry.
"in the Czech consulates in Ukraine began in those days to work additional Workers, sent from the foreign Ministry and the interior Ministry, reported in the report of the Prague Internet mission - Their mission is making statements from hundreds of ethnic Czechs in Ukraine, those wishing to move to their historical homeland. Urgent staff support requested Czech Ambassador to Ukraine Ivan Poczuj ".
review envoy of the Association of Volyn Czechs Boris Ilyuk created, quoted by the magazine, wanting to move to the Czech Republic has the opportunity to be up To 4 thousand people, but the documents are issued for moving extremely quickly, as well as among them, due to the small number of employees of the Czech consulates in Kiev and Lviv." in the current fall migration in the European Union of compatriots in Ukraine forget, " he suggested Iluk.
Repatriation process began last year with several references of Inhabitants of Ukraine with Czech roots, to the President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman. They asked the head of the country to assist them in moving to the Czech Republic in connection with a difficult economic situation and the military conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Zeman responded quickly to this call, and gave the job to the heads of the foreign Ministry and the interior Ministry to review Them and start the procedure of repatriation.
The first two groups of 144 immigrants from the Ukraine, who lived in the village Chehohrad, and likewise in several cities of Zaporizhzhya and Volyn regions, came to Prague by bus and dedicated by the government of the Republic of the aircraft in March of this year. In the following months in the Czech Republic came in small groups of several dozen people.
in the Czech Republic the vast number of returnees was at the time stationed in the town of Cherven nad Vltavou, where for six months provided free apartment to stay. Each adult Ukrainian was gratuitously issued 50 thousand CZK ($2080), plus for each child for 20 thousand kronor ($830). All of them are granted the right to permanent residence, which puts Them almost equal rights with the regional inhabitants, depriving as long as only the right to participate in elections.
for six months, provided by the Czech authorities immigrants to adapt (this deadline, if necessary, has the possibility to be extended), They get health insurance, improve the knowledge of the Czech language, which the overwhelming majority migrated already kind of has. Most local firms have the pleasure of giving immigrants work in occupations semi-skilled, as in this segment now, according to the Czech Ministry of industry, in the country there is a shortage of labour, at least 100 thousand vacant jobs.
Just for 2015, the Czech government has allocated for the Repatriation process 66 million crowns (2, 75 million dollars).
The Czechs appeared in Ukraine in the mid-19th century at the urging of the tsarist government to mastering empty areas, but since the middle of last century, They gradually began to return to their homeland. The great wave of immigrants arrived in the Czech Republic immediately after the conclusion of the Second world war, a second wave followed in the early 1990-ies, which was caused by the collapse of the USSR and the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.