LPR authorities open Russian passport applications in remote settlements

The Lugansk People’s Republic Interior Ministry has arranged visiting sessions in remote settlements of the Republic to accept Russian passport applications, the Interior Ministry’s public relations office reported.

 

“The mobile acceptance facilities are provided for the convenience of the local residents as it is difficult for them to get to the nearest Migration Service Office,” the report said. “QR codes, links to the website for electronic queue registration and the list of documents required for passport applications are available.”

 

The first visiting sessions for passport applicants were held in two remote settlements of the Stanichno-Lugansky district.

 

Despite the freezing weather, residents turned up in the morning to apply.  The application procedure does not take more than 15 minutes, the Ministry said.

 

The Republic currently operates one mobile and 19 fixed centers. Visiting sessions will be held in all remote settlements of the Republic, it said.

The Lugansk People’s Republic acceded to Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum. On October 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the federal constitutional law on “On the Accession of the LPR to Russia and Establishment of a New Federal Subject - Lugansk People's Republic.”  In this connection, citizens of LPR, Ukraine and stateless persons as well as their underage children who permanently resided in the LPR as of that date obtained Russian citizenship.

 

Earlier, LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik said that by June 2022, more than 284,000 LPR residents had been granted Russian citizenship.

 

On April, 24, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree easing citizenship rules for residents of the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic. The first center for LPR residents seeking Russian citizenship opened in Lugansk on May 6; the first group of LPR residents received Russian passports on June 14. On April 24, 2020, Putin signed a law exempting Donbass Republics residents from paying the state fee for conferment of citizenship. *i*ie