The convention on the simplified procedure for acquisition of nationality by citizens of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States

of January 19, 1996

The State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the hereinafter referred to as Contracting Parties,

proceeding from aspiration of the people to preserving and consolidation of historical traditionally friendly links and the relations of neighborliness,

developing cooperation among themselves for the purpose of maintenance of the civil world and interethnic concord,

confirming commitment to obligations concerning providing human rights and freedoms according to the commonly accepted international standards,

wishing to provide favorable conditions for realization by the citizens on the basis of free declaration of will of option and acquisition of nationality of any of Contracting Parties,

being guided by the Charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States,

aiming to enhance cooperation mechanisms in the Commonwealth and to increase their efficiency,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

Each Contracting Party will provide to the citizens leaving on permanent residence on the territory of any of Contracting Parties, the simplified (registration) procedure for getting out of nationality and also will provide to the citizens of any of Contracting Parties arriving to permanent residence on its territory the right to acquire her nationality in the simplified (registration) procedure in the presence of one of the following conditions:

a) if the applicant in the past consisted in nationality of one of Contracting Parties and at the same time in citizenship of the USSR, lived in their territories for December 21, 1991 and lives constantly before entry into force of this Convention;

b) in the presence at the applicant of the close relative is the spouse (spouses), one of parents (adoptive parents), the child (including adopted), sisters, the brother, the grandfather or the grandmother, the granddaughter or the grandson - constantly living in the territory of the Contracting Party we acquire oho nationality and being her citizen.

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