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Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) is Canada's largest independent administrative tribunal, responsible for making well-reasoned decisions on immigration and refugee matters efficiently, fairly and in accordance with the law. It consists of three divisions: the Refugee Protection Division; the Immigration Division; and the Immigration Appeal Division. The Refugee Protection Division decides claims for refugee protection made by people already in Canada. Website: www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/
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Russia: Whether stateless ethnic Russians from the Soviet republics automatically obtain Russian citizenship

1 May 1999 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Russia/Israel: Procedures and requirements for former USSR citizens who acquired Israeli citizenship to register for Russian citizenship under Article 18 of the Russian Federation Citizenship Act; eligibility of their children and/or spouses; reports or statistics of former Soviet Union citizens who emigrated to Israel and later returned to Russia

4 February 1999 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Russia/Ukraine: Whether Russia and Ukraine have entered into an agreement providing for dual citizenship; whether possession of a Russian Federation Seaman's Book with the nationality noted as "Russian" confirms Russian citizenship and any implications this may have for Ukrainian citizenship

1 February 1999 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Russia/Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan: Whether a citizen of the former Soviet Union, born in Kazakhstan to a Kazakh father and Russian mother and now a Kyrgyz citizen, can acquire Russian citizenship by registering under Article 18 of the Russian Federation Citizenship Act; the procedures involved in the acquisition and restoration of Russian citizenship; reports of Kazakh or Kyrgyz citizens becoming Russian citizens

1 February 1999 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Russia: Update to Response to Information Request RUS30450.E of 13 November 1998 on the treatment of ethnic Koreans and the state protection available to them (January 1998 - November 1998)

1 December 1998 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Russian Federation: Whether a Russian citizen currently living in Moldova, in possession of a valid external (international) USSR passport issued in 1997, who has never lived in Russia, requires relatives in Russia or needs to own property in Russia in order to have access to all the rights and obligations of full Russian citizenship; the requirements for this person to obtain a propiska

1 August 1998 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Russia: Update to Response to Information Request RUS29383.E of 15 May 1998 on the application process for migration to Russia by ethnic Russians who were born and reside in Estonia (September 1991-May 1998)

1 July 1998 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Russia: Update to Response to Information Request RUS27965.E of 17 October 1997 on whether the Russian authorities issued Russian or Soviet external passports to persons who were not citizens of the Russian Federation in 1995, and if so, on the rights that were conferred upon the holders of these passports, whether the holders of these passports had a claim to Russian citizenship, whether they were entitled to return to the Russian Federation after being abroad, whether they had residence rights in the Russian Federation, and whether there were any distinguishing features (stamps, codes, etc.) placed in these passports that indicated that the holders were not citizens of the Russian Federation

1 January 1998 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Russia/Ukraine: Information on whether a person of Polish ethnicity who was born in Popovka Uladovka Oblast (believed to be in contemporary Ukraine) in the 1930s, and who possesses a valid Soviet passport issued in the mid-1990s in which it is indicated that it is the property of Ukraine, is a Russian or Ukrainian citizen or has a claim to Russian or Ukrainian citizenship, on whether the ethnicity of the person or the citizenship of the person's parents influences whether he/she is a citizen or has a claim to citizenship, and if the person does not have Russian citizenship, the requirements to obtain it

19 September 1997 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Ukraine/Russia: Information on whether a person of Polish ethnicity who was born in Zupech Zytomyrskaia Oblast (believed to be in contemporary Ukraine) in the 1930s, and who possesses a valid Soviet passport issued in the mid-1990s in which it is indicated that it is the property of Ukraine, is a Russian or Ukrainian citizen or has a claim to Russian or Ukrainian citizenship, on whether the ethnicity of the person or the citizenship of the person's parents influences whether he/she is a citizen or has a claim to citizenship, and if the person does not have Russian citizenship, the requirements to obtain it

19 September 1997 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

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