Vladimir Putin signed
the Executive Order On Certain Categories of Foreign
Citizens and Stateless Persons Entitled to a Fast-Track
Procedure when Applying for Russian Citizenship.
May 1, 2019
12:50
With a view
to protecting human and citizens’ rights and freedoms,
and guided by universally recognised principles and norms
of international law, in accordance with Article 29 of Federal
Law No. 62-FZ of May 31, 2002 On Citizenship
in the Russian Federation, the President ordered
the granting of the right to a fast-track procedure
when applying for Russian citizenship to:
Ukrainian citizens who do
not have citizenship in another state, and stateless persons who were
born and permanently resided in the Republic of Crimea
and Sevastopol, who left the specified territories before March 18,
2014, as well as their children, spouses and parents;
citizens of Ukraine
and stateless persons who have a temporary residence permit
in the Russian Federation, a regular residence permit
in the Russian Federation, a refugee certificate,
a certificate of temporary asylum in the Russian Federation
or a certificate of participation in the State
Programme to facilitate the voluntary resettlement
of compatriots living abroad permanently residing in certain
districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine
as of April 7, 2014 and April 27, 2014, respectively,
as well as their children, spouses and parents,
to the Russian Federation;
foreign citizens
and stateless persons subjected to illegal deportation from
the territory of the Crimean ASSR themselves or their
direct relatives in the ascending line, as well
as to their children and spouses;
citizens
of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Republic
of Iraq, the Republic of Yemen and the Syrian Arab
Republic, who were born in the RSFSR and were formerly citizens
of the Soviet Union, as well as their children, spouses
and parents.
The Executive Order
sets forth the procedure for submitting applications
for obtaining citizenship in the Russian Federation, contains
the list of required documents, and establishes
the timeframe for application processing.
Furthermore,
the Executive Order stipulates that an application for Russian
citizenship filed by a citizen of Ukraine, another foreign
citizen or a stateless person, will be rejected if they are involved
in the activities of organisations that are reported to be
involved in extremist activity or terrorism, or if a body
that investigates the financing of terrorism has ruled that
the said individual’s accounts or other property be frozen,
or if there is a court decision to suspend bank account transactions
or other transactions related to their money or other property.
The Executive Order
comes into force on the day of its official publication.
