Russian Citizenship in Only One Year – Now, It’s Real

Doctors, teachers, journalists, mechanics, tractor operators and representatives of a dozen of other professions now will have the chance to get the Russian citizenship in just a year. After October 2, the minimum working period for qualified foreign workers in Russia granting them the right for the simplified conferment of citizenship is reduced from three years to one year, a tvbrics.com correspondent reports with the reference to the Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The Ministry of Labour listed the specialists Russia lacks. According to the CEO of the Institute of Regional Problems Dmitry Zhuravlev, many countries try to stimulate qualified migration as it helps to save on training of specialists.

For example, the list of specialists who can apply for the accelerated conferment of citizenship includes a lot of health workers: psychiatrists, addiction psychiatrists, epizootologists, neurologists, otorhinolaryngologists, ophthalmologists, traumatologists-orthopedists, pediatricians, therapists, surgeons, nurses.

Besides, Russia is ready to grant citizenship to journalists, livestock specialists, mechanization experts, agricultural equipment repairmen, technologists, tractor & combine operators, agricultural and mining engineers.