Moscow - The Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) is hoping to provide Crimeans with Russian passports in a three months' time.
“The Federal Law orders the migration service to document the population of Crimea with passports within three months,” FMS deputy chief Sergei Kalyuzhny told a press conference in Moscow on March 23.
There are over 2 million Crimeans to be issued with Russian passports, he said.
“We are installing equipment and sending our specialists so they can promptly deal with document-issuance,” Kalyuzhny said.
Each passport should take three to five days to be issued, he said.
“The only problem: there will be long queues,” he said. The FMS will ask the Crimean authorities to allocate additional premises for organizing the issuance of Russian passports, he said.
