prints taken at the Ministry of Internal Affairs office for their place of residence and must also have a medical exam within ten calendar days of submitting their applications. A decision on temporary asylum is made by the local Ministry of Internal Affairs office for the location where the person submitted the written application within at least three business days from the date of the application’s submission. After this, the applicant is issued a certificate of temporary asylum within one business day. There is a procedure for establishing an applicant’s identity if that person does not have identity documents. Migrants from Ukraine who cannot manage to complete the procedure for filing for temporary asylum or who do not file an application at all, but who have overstayed their time in Russia generally remain in Russia illegally because they cannot return to eastern Ukraine for various reasons. Issuance of Russian Passports to Residents of the Breakaway DPR and LPR under a Simplified Procedure Soon after the recent presidential election in Ukraine, when Volodymyr Zelensky became head of state, President Putin signed an order concerning a simplified procedure for conferring citizenship and issuing Russian passports to residents of “certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine” (Order No. 183 of April 24, 2019).35 At a press conference on April 27, 2019, Putin announced his intention to simplify the procedure for granting Russian citizenship to all residents of Ukraine.36 A subsequent order (No. 187 of April 29, 2019), however, pertains to limited groups of Ukrainian citizens and establishes a simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for natives and former residents of other regions of Russia—Crimea and Sevastopol—who left these regions prior to certain dates in 2014 and for former residents of “certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine” who are currently in Russia legally. Order No. 187 also relates to citizens of Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Syria born in the RSFSR and holding Soviet passports.37 35 Order No. 183 “On Defining Categories of Persons who have the Right to Apply for Russian Citizenship Under a Simplified Procedure for Humanitarian Purposes,” April 24, 2019, http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_323356/942772dce30cfa36b671 bcf19ca928e4d698a928/ 36 “Putin Allows for Simplified Granting of Russian Citizenship to Residents of Ukraine,” April 27, 2019, https://ria.ru/20190427/1553107786.html [in Russian]. 37 Order No. 187 “On Certain Categories of Foreign Nationals and Stateless Persons who may Apply for Russian Citizenship Under a Simplified Procedure,” April 29, 2019, http:// www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_323819/ 20