Saki - Russia's federal migration service has issued about 160,000 passports for residents of Crimea and accepted requests for Russian citizenship from more than 240,000 applicants, Fyodor Karpovets, chief of the Federal Migration Service's passport department, told Interfax.
“Over 240,000 applications had been accepted from residents of Crimea by April 13. We process more than 8,000 applications on a daily basis and we have readied about 160,000 passports and sent over 100,000 to Crimea,” Karpovets said.
He said the Federal Migration Service will provide all applicants with Russian passports no later than early July, he said.
About 1.5 million residents of Crimea want to get Russian passports, he said.
