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Georgia may increase citizenship requirements

by OC Media

•2 min read

People wishing to apply for Georgian citizenship will need to have resided in the country for at least 10 years, up from the current 5, if a new law currently in parliament is passed. The bill, which passed its first hearing in Parliament on Thursday, would also raise the bar for spouses of Georgian citizens, who would have to have resided in Georgia for 5 years, up from 2, to be granted citizenship under a simplified procedure. According to the explanatory note of the bill on Organic Law o

Abkhazia

Georgians in Gali — foreigners in their own land

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•10 min read

A string of changes in how identity documents are issued has left residents of Abkhazia’s Gali District feeling frustrated and powerless. OC Media spoke to a number of locals, who complained that widespread corruption and discrimination makes them feel unwelcome in their homeland. The same chaotic picture can be seen every working day in Gali’s police building; the police’s passport section is the only crowded place in town. Residents from all over Abkhazia’s Gali District, which is p

Abkhazia

Abkhazia to grant citizenship to ethnic Georgians who ‘return to historical ethnicity’

by OC Media

•3 min read

Authorities in Abkhazia will grant citizenship to ethnic Georgians willing to ‘change their ethnic identity back’ from Georgian to Abkhaz, the head of Gali (Gal) District administration has said. Applicants should address the Abkhazian president with such a request, he continued, according to Tbilisi-based Civil.ge, who broke the story on 31 July. Temur Nadaraya said in his 26 July meeting with the Murzakan Abkhaz Council, that ethnic Georgians wishing to receive an Abkhaz passport would