Mel - 2010-02-10 3:00 AM

My wife tells me that it is extremely difficult to give up your Russian citizenship/nationality, for any russian person..It is also a long process, however, once completed, she thinks that then applying for a visa to visit Russia, will most likely be met with a refusal.......

I personally cannot comment, but I cannot see any point in anyone giving up their culture and heritage whatsoever, which is principally what they are doing....

Are they ashamed, or is there some other ulterior motive.......????????

Moscovite - 2010-02-10 10:56 PM

What if the Russian Embassy will refuse to grant a visa on the reason that a Russian person (by nationality) should not from the start renounce the citizenship (and there is no need to) and if he/she did so why this person wants to go to Russia? And they might suggest to get the citizenship back.

Rasboinik - 2010-02-10 2:08 PM



I do not think that it looks quite simple like this. In some other European countries Germany for instance in order to get German citizenship you have to give up your Russian citizenship. Hence it is not peoples own will in some point when they applying to renounce their citizenship. So taking into account other "friendly" countries say Ukraine, Georgia and so on, I guess such acts of treason will be far more then 100.000. And will be not very wise for Russian State to apply such policy irreflective of existing situation. Besides it is shortage of population in Russia and will be a good idea to attract some compatriots to return back, especially well qualified with Western experience.

So further, when such people for different reasons decide to come back and live in Russia - there is a state program from 2006 exist to repatriate ethnic Russians living abroad. 12 pilot Russian regions participating in the repatriation program. Local authorities provide various type of aid to such migrants (depend on the region), where compatriots will decide to be based, such as employment, guarantees of state fund that they can obtain the mortgages in the banks immediately on the arrival into Russia and Federal Migration Service promises to issue to migrants citizenship according to the simplified diagram in the course of six months and to pay out lift.

I can see no problem with getting back Russian citizenship if you given up it and left country besides possibly criminal and idealogical reasons.

So therefore a traitor will not be welcomed back, and that is why there will be no visa issued.

Sokol - 2010-02-09 10:19 AM
It says Citizenship in Russian, but for those who does not understand Russian - it says - Nationality in English. LOL

darianka - 2010-05-27 4:40 AM No when you renunciate Russian citizenship or any other citizenship you do not deny your nationality or your history or other bullshit. You do it because you are sick and tired of Russian government greedy little hands, who do not give a shit about it's citizens. You know that it costs about a $1000 to renew your russian travelers passport and you need to fly out to what ever state you city belongs to in order to receive your stupid passport. I was born in Russia but i live in America and i am becoming a US citizen proudly- for me it is just to costly and stupid and inconvenient to have russian passport which costs just as much as the ticket. Russia does not like it's citizens, it just doesn't give a damn. You were able to do your passport with a third party people, who took care of all the paperwork and their charged reasonable prices for their job, not Russian government got so greedy that you need to pay 600 to them to do your damn passport which takes no less then 6 months, then you need to fly out to receive your passport on specific day and times- i need to fly to california from colorado, stay there a night and rent a car, all that pleasure will cost me no less then $600 on top of the stupid passport fee. Also, the country you were worn in does not construct your identity or your personality- what makes you who you are are your experiences in life and people around you!

darianka - 2010-05-26 11:40 PM

No when you renunciate Russian citizenship or any other citizenship you do not deny your nationality or your history or other bullshit. You do it because you are sick and tired of Russian government greedy little hands, who do not give a shit about it's citizens. You know that it costs about a $1000 to renew your russian travelers passport and you need to fly out to what ever state you city belongs to in order to receive your stupid passport. I was born in Russia but i live in America and i am becoming a US citizen proudly- for me it is just to costly and stupid and inconvenient to have russian passport which costs just as much as the ticket. Russia does not like it's citizens, it just doesn't give a damn.
You were able to do your passport with a third party people, who took care of all the paperwork and their charged reasonable prices for their job, not Russian government got so greedy that you need to pay 600 to them to do your damn passport which takes no less then 6 months, then you need to fly out to receive your passport on specific day and times- i need to fly to california from colorado, stay there a night and rent a car, all that pleasure will cost me no less then $600 on top of the stupid passport fee.
Also, the country you were worn in does not construct your identity or your personality- what makes you who you are are your experiences in life and people around you!