Citizenship and passport in one day: Zhaparov gave instructions to officials

Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Zhaparov ordered that citizenship and passports be issued to ethnic Kyrgyz within one day. He announced this at a meeting with residents of the city of Batken.

At the meeting, a woman living in the Batken region approached the president. She had come from Uzbekistan and married a man of Kyrgyz nationality. She said that for a long time she had been unable to obtain Kyrgyz citizenship.

Zhaparov instructed the responsible officials to resolve the woman's problem, stating that if a person is an ethnic Kyrgyz, they should be granted citizenship and a passport within one day.

According to the president, ethnic Kyrgyz who arrived from Afghanistan and Tajikistan still hold kairylman status.