29-01-2017
In accordance with the statement, only for the year 2016 the citizenship of Ukraine was granted to 16866 persons, of them – 809 foreigners and stateless persons upon their applications were accepted as Ukrainian citizens under the President’s decrees.
In particular, 131 persons were recognized by the President’s decree as the citizens of Ukraine, among them one is from Russian, 97 – Syria, 75 – stateless persons (the citizenship of countries was not mentioned).
In 2016, accepted 64 citizens of Ukraine under the President’s decree were persons from Armenia, 61 – Afghanistan, 52 – Iran, 47 – Georgia, 43 – Moldavia, 31 – Lebanon, 30 – Uzbekistan.
26 person acquired Ukrainian citizenship in 2016 were from Armenia, 22 – Azerbaijan, by 13 – from Jordan and Pakistan, 12 – Belorussia, by 11 – from Palestine and Egypt.
Nine person obtained Ukrainian citizenship in 2016 were the citizens of Nigeria, eight from – Turkey, seven – Bangladesh, six – Turkmenistan, five – Vietnam, by four – Kazakhstan and Tunis, by three – India and Algeria, by two – Angola, Cameroon, Libya, Morocco, Sudan.
Also Ukrainian citizenship in 2016 was granted to the citizen of the USA, Germany, Israel, Greece, North Korea, Cuba, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Congo, Yemen and Tadzhikistan.