The heroine of the project “Not One to One” from Simferopol, 62-year-old Inessa Dzhumalitdinova, who could not apply for Russian citizenship for several years, received a Russian passport. In June this year, she submitted an appeal to the RT editorial office, in which she said that, despite having a residence permit in Crimea since 1995, her citizenship documents were not accepted due to discrepancies in the birth certificate and marriage certificate. In addition, her application to renounce her Uzbek citizenship filed at the consulate has not yet been answered. After RT's request, thanks to the support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Inessa was first issued a temporary identity card for a stateless person, then, based on the unification of her documents, she will have Russian citizenship.
A native of Uzbekistan, Inessa Dzhumalitdinova, 62 years old, lived in Crimea for more than 30 years, became a citizen of the Russian Federation. She was granted a Russian passport in a simple way after RT's request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Previously, the pensioner was unable to start the citizenship process for several years due to discrepancies in her documents.
“I finally got my passport,” Inessa rejoiced. – When I arrived, they immediately gave me a set of documents. Everything is clear and fast. To be honest, I don't have much emotion anymore – I'm so tired and exhausted. My friends were even more moved when they learned that I am now a citizen of the Russian Federation. With my passport in hand, I immediately performed SNILS and registered with the State Services Agency. After that, she contacted the Pension Fund and received a medical examination. Unfortunately, I was sent to the oncology clinic for further tests, but this is not new to me. I will get treatment. Many thanks RT for your help and support. I don't know what I would do without you.”
Inessa Dzhumalitdinova's parents are natives of Tashkent. In the 1960s, her father was sent to Andijan to organize the department of normal physiology. He moved there with his wife and after a while Inessa was born to them. After that, the family returned to live in Tashkent, where Inessa entered the Central Asian Pediatric Institute (now the Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute), but did not finish her studies because she got married.
Inessa's husband was a Crimean Tatar, so after the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved with him from Tashkent to Crimea. The Dzhumalitdinovs settled in the village of Kopani, Dzhankoy district. However, a year after moving, the house where they lived burned down. This happened when Inessa and her husband were not at home. All of their documents were burned and the subsequent investigation determined that it was arson. The couple was forced to move to another place to live.
To restore the document, Inessa contacted the Dzhankoy district registry office.
Uzbekistan requested a copy of the birth certificate. When Inessa received the document, she saw that there was a mistake in it: instead of “Inessa Yuryevna” they wrote “Innesa Yuryevna”. They then sent her a marriage certificate, where the FIO was written differently than on the birth certificate. As a result, in order for the documents to be unified, they had to go to court, and Inessa did not have a passport to submit the documents.
The results of the review were not reported
After Crimea reunited with Russia, residents of the peninsula had the opportunity to simply obtain Russian citizenship. Inessa's husband had obtained a Russian passport and at the time she was being treated for suspected cancer. She had surgery in April 2014 and underwent a long period of rehabilitation.
Then, when she turned to the immigration authorities to simply apply for Russian citizenship as a resident of Crimea, she was first offered to obtain a certificate of renunciation of Uzbek citizenship. She went to the Uzbekistan embassy to get this document and applied there. She was given a cash receipt to pay the fee but was never informed of the outcome of the application review.
Inessa asked for help by contacting the “Not One on One” project. In her letter, she said that without documents, she would not receive the pension and it was also not accepted in public hospitals and paid clinics.
RT sent a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a request to help pensioners obtain Russian citizenship in a simpler way.
The press service of the Ministry of RT reported that recommendations were sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea to support Inessa Dzhumalitdinova in resolving the legal situation on the territory of the Russian Federation, taking into account Part 1 of Art. 4 of the Federal Constitutional Law of March 21, 2014 No. 6-FKZ “On the annexation of the Republic of Crimea to the Russian Federation and the creation of new entities within the Russian Federation – the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol.”
First, Inessa was issued a temporary identity card for a stateless person, then, based on the agreed documents, a Russian passport.