Ukraine will amend its nationality law to allow foreign soldiers to become Ukrainian citizens and to allow “all Ukrainians” around the world, regardless of their generation, to obtain a passport, the president said. .
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the raft He unveiled the new law he submitted to parliament on Monday in a speech marking the Day of National Unity of Ukraine, an annual celebration of the short-lived 1917 People's Republic of Ukraine. The announcements include significant liberalization of Ukraine's citizenship law, allowing dual citizenship for the first time and opening passports to the global Ukrainian diaspora and foreign volunteers.
“Everyone with Ukrainian blood in his veins should ultimately become a Ukrainian with a passport,” President Zelenskiy said in a video address from Kiev. This will be facilitated by the introduction of dual citizenship for the first time, he said, adding: “This will enable all ethnic Ukrainians and their descendants around the world to have our citizenship… all those who were forcibly relocated in various waves of migration. They will be able to have our citizenship.'' They left their homeland and ended up in countries in Europe, the United States, Canada, Asia, and Latin America. ”
He said all people of Ukrainian descent are eligible, “of course” excluding nationals of Russia, the “aggressor country.”
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In theory, people from other countries who volunteered to fight for Ukraine would also be eligible for a Ukrainian blue passport. “The foreign volunteers who took up arms to defend Ukraine, all those fighting for the freedom of Ukraine, consider Ukraine as their homeland,” Zelenskiy said. And Ukraine will become such a country for them. To all those who feel that “being in Ukraine” means “being at home”. Not as a tourist, but as a citizen. ”
Until now, it has been claimed that around 20,000 foreigners volunteered to fight for Ukraine, although many who took part early in the war have since left. as stated“Romanticist” [who] Attended in February [and] March is already over. ” Perhaps Russian anti-Putin fighters fighting for Kiev will not be eligible under President Zelenskiy’s conditions for foreigners to obtain Ukrainian passports, which do not apply to nationals of “aggressor countries.”
Perhaps it is the announcement that citizenship in Ukraine will be extended to people who shed their blood and volunteers who paid with their blood, looking to the future and in order to rebuild Ukraine after the expected victory. It might have been. Although the exact scale of battlefield casualties is unknown, it is clear that Ukraine has been severely depopulated by the war, with millions of people, many of them young women and children, fleeing the country. , it is clear that in many cases they are not very keen on returning to their homeland. .
Giving passports and allowing dual citizenship to descendants of historical immigrants could avoid the need to consider visas and attendant questions when trying to encourage immigration to rebuild the country after the war. There is sex.
