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2000 foreigners received Bulgarian citizenship in January 2010 - Minister

Fri, Jan 29 2010 16:54 CET

byRene Beekman

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2000 foreigners received Bulgarian citizenship in January 2010 - Minister

 
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On the last workingday of the month, January 27 2010, 450 foreigners from what is referred to as the historical Bulgarian diaspora received Bulgarian citizenship, Focus news agency quoted Bozhidar Dimitrov, Minister Without Portfolio, responsible for Bulgarians abroad, as saying.

In total, 2000 applications for Bulgarian citizenship had been approved in the first month of 2010, double that of January 2009, Dimitrov said.

"Unfortunately, there are still more than 50 000 applications that have piled up in the past, which means there is still a lot of work to be done," Focus news agency quoted Dimitrov as saying.
Since September 2009, when Dimitrov was appointed minister, 6500 applications for Bulgarian citizenship had been approved, mainly from Albania, Israel, Macedonia, Moldova, Russia, Serbia and the Ukraine.

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