Over 8,000 Crimean residents get Ukrainian passports after annexation of peninsula
More than 8,800 residents of Crimea have received a passport of citizen of Ukraine after Russia annexed the peninsula.
“During this time, 354 passports were issued in the form of cards. The majority of our citizens applied for passports in form of a booklet. During this period, 8,500 our citizens have been issued and exchanged a passport of citizen of Ukraine in form of a booklet,” said Halyna Subotenko, the deputy head of the registration and immigration office of the department for citizenship, certification, and registration of the State Migration Service of Ukraine, Crimea.Realities news portal reports.
According to her, the citizens of Ukraine residing in Crimea prefer to have a passport in form of booklets, because it is easier to cross the administrative border between the mainland Ukraine and the annexed Crimea with them.
According to her data, the Service has provided Crimean residents with approximately 80,500 administrative services during the period of annexation of the peninsula.
“These services, in particular, include registration, issuance, exchange of a passport of citizen of Ukraine, a passport of citizen of Ukraine for traveling abroad, pasting photos in Ukrainian passport in form of booklets, issuance of temporary certificates confirming the identity of citizen of Ukraine, issuance of travel documents,” Subotenko explained.
Earlier, the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation reported that 3,427 Crimean residents had refused Russian citizenship.
