Over 12,000 natives of Uzbekistan acquire Kyrgyz citizenship

AKIPRESS.COM - During the past 5 years the citizenship of Kyrgyzstan was mainly acquired by natives of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Russia, local media report with reference to the State Registration Service of Kyrgyzstan. President Sooronbai Jeenbekov signed the order on December 30 granting citizenship of Kyrgyzstan to 978 people.
Since 2015, citizenship of Kyrgyzstan was acquired by 22,456 people. The bulk of them - 82% - are ethnic Kyrgyz.
During 2015-2018, citizens of Uzbekistan acquired citizenship of Kyrgyzstan most of all. In 2019, Tajik citizens acquired citizenship of Kyrgyzstan mostly.
During the past 5 years, more than 12,000 citizens of Kyrgyzstan acquired citizenship of Kyrgyzstan (4,470 people in 2015, 3,401 in 2016, 2,341 in 2017, 1,284 in 2018, 887 in 10 months of 2019).
Nationals of Ukraine, Moldova, Pakistan, China, Turkey and Egypt acquired citizenship of Kyrgyzstan also.