US Gives Citizenship To 7000 Russian Muslims

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US Gives Citizenship To 7000

Russian Muslims

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KRASNODAR (IslamOnline.net) - The United States has agreed to grant

citizenship to 7,000 Ahiska Muslims who will be settled in

Pennsylvania, reported a Russian newspaper on Friday, July 23.

 

The first 11-strong batch of the Ahiska Muslims, living in the Russian

province of Krasnodar, left for Geneva on Thursday, July 22, before

flying to Philadelphia, reported Novie Izvestia. It added that the

Muslims would be housed near the grand mosque in Philadelphia. ...

 

An official in Krasnodar administration had told Interfax on Tuesday,

July 20, that of the 11,999 Ahiska Muslims living in the region, 4,943

have received Russian citizenship and 744 have embarked on Russian

naturalization procedures. He added that more than 5,000 others have

expressed a desire to emigrate to the United States.

 

Earlier, Chingiz Neiman-zade, chairman of Vatan, a Meskheti Turks

association based in Georgia, said the United States had offered to

accept the Ahiska Muslims living in Krasnodar as immigrants. "On

February 16, the International Migration Organization began an

information program in Krasnodar to explain the terms for the

resettlement of the Ahiska Muslims in the U.S., he told Chicago

Tribune on Thursday, July 22.

 

"The immigrants will be provided with housing and furniture, they will

be helped to learn the English language and to complete formalities

needed for residence in the US, which is especially important, and

have been promised life-long welfare allowances for pensioners and the

disabled."

 

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