Due to the recent dramatic events that have taken place in Ukraine, the country has significantly increased the number of those wishing to acquire Russian citizenship.The flow of migrants, previously consisted mainly of people seeking a better life and well-paid jobs, are now added to the refugees.How to react to changes in the situation, the State Duma and the Federal Migration Service?
General procedure
still obtaining Russian citizenship to citizens of Ukraine legally and procedurally regulated items "Regulations on the order of consideration of issues of citizenship of the Russian Federation" dated 14.11.02.According to this document, to obtain a Russian passport foreign citizen arriving to the Russian territory, must register with the local authorities and apply for registration and obtaining a residence permit.If approved, the owner of the document, yet foreign citizen to obtain a coveted passport should have lived in Russia for five years.This path - the longest and heaviest.
special case - Crimea
mass adoption of Russian citizenship by citizens of Ukraine took place after the reunification of the peninsula of Crimea with the mainland.Passports will forgive me, the procedure has been greatly simplified.Most of the population of the autonomous republic in the referendum expressed the desire to be the Russians, and to observe formal rules appeared simply not technically possible, yes, actually, in this and there was no need.
Meritorious
Obtaining Russian citizenship to the citizens of Ukraine is considerably simplified in some cases, namely the passage of contract service for three years in the Russian army (according to the 4 th part of the 13th article of the Federal Law) or special achievementsthe country.Requirements for permanent residence, first obtaining a residence permit and a temporary registration in these cases do not apply.
Exceptions are provided for those who have been granted refugee status or asylum.Particular talking about figures of science, culture, technology and other fields of human activity in which the applicant has special achievements.The highest qualification or rare profession such citizen may cause the decision to reduce the period of 1 year, and the case personally by the President.
resettlement program
Russian government is interested in the inflow of qualified employable people close culturally and psychologically to the basic composition of its population.After the collapse of the Soviet Union became a reality a considerable number of Russian and representatives of other nations who identify themselves as Russians, suddenly appeared (in the legal sense) by foreigners.
Obtaining Russian citizenship by citizens of Ukraine in order countrymen resettlement program involves the creation of conditions for those who wish to be Russians.For those assumed a number of benefits, state aid and support, but there are certain limitations associated with the targeted nature of the measure.
Firstly, the working age, it can not be less than 25 and more than 50 years.
Second, pensioners and disabled people can not become members of labor migration (that's the essence of it).
Third, to settle in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as the surrounding areas of fellow settlers can not, government support is not valid.
main advantage lies in the fact that the receipt of Russian citizenship to the citizens of Ukraine (and some other countries - the former Soviet republics) is much faster and takes from six months to a year.
To participate in the program should provide a common set of documents: passport (if there is, and foreign) with authorized translation, diplomas and certificates of education, work record (optional).If
preserved metrics relatives, proving Russian origin (including the fact of birth in the RSFSR), it is desirable to attach them too.
Obtaining Russian citizenship to the citizens of Ukraine the easiest way
If a citizen of Ukraine is not in a war zone, and it does not need to leave their homes as a refugee, then the easiest way to get citizenship - to apply to the Russian foreign (diplomatic mission orthe Consular Section).This immediately eliminates the many problems associated with the duration of residence of non-residents in the Russian Federation.In this case, there is no need to obtain a residence permit, the requirement for annual finding in Russia, too, is not valid.In fact, over the period of consideration (up to six months), you can not change the habitual way of life.
project on simplification
Despite numerous rumors that the Russian citizenship to Ukrainians now get easy and takes it, ostensibly, just a couple of months, Russian law is not changed significantly.The draft law on the simplification of procedures exist, the State Duma is going to consider it, but it has not happened yet.The presentation and discussion paper proposes to approve the right to repatriate certain categories of Ukrainian citizens, which include the Russian language with the Russian roots.This means that people who happened to find themselves abroad, but born in the Russian Empire, RSFSR, or Russian, or whose parents lived here, have some advantages over other applicants for a passport with a double-headed eagle.Thus the right to dual citizenship project is not provided.
document can not be considered fully developed, it also has opponents and supporters.
