124 thousand Ukrainians want to become Hungarians and this number is growing
More than 124 thousand Ukrainians have applied for Hungarian citizenship.
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This was reported by the portal Mukachevo.net, citing several Hungarian media outlets.
It is noted that, according to sources, more than half of this number want to obtain a Hungarian passport fraudulently.
Because of this, Budapest began to carefully check the documents provided with the aim of depriving them of citizenship. One of the ways to identify fraudsters involves checking at the Ukrainian-Hungarian border the knowledge of the Hungarian language by citizens with a Hungarian passport.
If the holder of a Hungarian passport cannot give answers in Hungarian, a report is drawn up against him, which may lead to the revocation of citizenship.
It is noted that Ukrainians with Hungarian passports obtained fraudulently are trying to cross the border with Slovakia in order to avoid language checks.
It is also reported that documents may be invalidated due to significant differences in photographs - cases have been recorded when language tests were taken by a completely different person than the one providing the documents. Ukrainians, in turn, then changed their first and even last names to Hungarian ones in order to reduce the risk of being caught forgery.
Earlier it was reported that 128 residents of Transcarpathia are suspected of illegally obtaining Hungarian citizenship.
English version :: Read in English 124 Ukrainians want to become Hungarians, and this number is growing.