ticular, they lacked information on:
• How to register a house;
• How to obtain (permanent) residency;
• How to acquire identity documents (passports, residence permits, military, birth, and
marriage certificates, etc.);
• How to become a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic and how to receive a Kyrgyz passport;
• Why Kyrgyz citizenship was not granted (reasons were never given to the applicant,
and documents provided were rejected);
• Information on registration of real estate;
• Amending personal documents and documents of children;
• How to register to receive a pension;
• The rights of migrants;
• How to gather the documents required to apply for a Kyrgyz passport;
• How to replace an expired USSR passport.
Almost all respondents in need of legal advice were interested in consultations on naturalization (over 96 percent). Other topics of interest were employment (18 percent), obtaining birth
and marriage certificates (17 percent), registration of real estate (13 percent), and the rights
and responsibilities of foreigners (11 percent) (see table 17).
Table 17: Requested topics for legal advice
Topic for legal
advice
Chui
TOTAL
yes
no
Sokuluk
Panfilov
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
1018
54
96.13% 41
3.87%
5.10% 1005 94.90%
253
35
19
237
318
0
19
337
447
19
3
431
Acquiring birth and
marriage certificates
181
17.09%
878
82.91%
49
223
93
244
39
411
Foreigners’ rights
and responsibilities
112
10.58%
947
89.42%
25
247
39
298
48
402
Land
97
133
9.16%
12.56%
962
926
90.84%
87.44%
15
7
257
265
60
98
277
239
22
28
428
422
12
193
4
53
1.13% 1047 98.87%
18.22% 866 81.78%
0.38% 1055 99.62%
5.00% 1006 95.00%
1
7
1
47
271
265
271
225
3
73
1
3
334
264
336
334
8
113
2
3
442
337
448
447
Naturalization
Acquiring a passport
Registration of real
estate
Tax payment
Employment
Criminal law
Other
In addition to the topics mentioned in this table, respondents also asked for advice on the following topics:
• How to restore a military certificate;
• How to extend an expired Uzbek passport;
• How to replace a damaged Tajik passport;
• How to prove long-term residency in the Kyrgyz Republic if it is not or has only recently
been recorded in the USSR passport;
• What to do if the USSR passport is lost;
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