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06/23/2025
Constitutional Law of the Republic of Tajikistan on citizenship of the Republic of Tajikistan
Original names of the law: Контитуционный Закон Республики Таджикистан о гражданстве Республики Таджикистан
Year: 2015
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Nationality, Integration & Public Affairs
Description
The 2015 Constitutional Law establishes the legal framework for Tajik citizenship by defining its key concepts, principles and governing bodies, and by setting out the conditions and procedures for acquiring, renouncing, losing and restoring citizenship.
Selected provisions
1) The following foreign citizens and stateless persons have the right to apply for citizenship of the Republic of Tajikistan under a simplified procedure, without meeting the conditions set forth in the first and second paragraphs of Article 15 of this Constitutional Law and without providing a residence permit:
- Persons with outstanding achievements in the fields of science, technology, healthcare, and sports, as well as those who have contributed to the economic, social, and cultural development of the Republic of Tajikistan and the realization of universal human values;
- Veterans of the Great Patriotic War who were citizens of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and reside in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan;
- A child or an incapacitated person under the guardianship or custody of a citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan;
- A child or an incapacitated person under full state care in an educational or medical institution, a social protection institution, or another similar institution in the Republic of Tajikistan;
- Persons born in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic who were citizens of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, resided or reside in the states that were part of the Soviet Union, but did not acquire the citizenship of those states and, as a result, became stateless persons.
2) The following persons may apply for citizenship of the Republic of Tajikistan with a reduction of half the period of permanent residence required by the first paragraph of Article 15 of this Constitutional Law:
- Stateless persons, except for those mentioned in the fifth paragraph of part 1 of this article;
- Foreign citizens whose father or mother was a citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan at the time of their birth and who acquired foreign citizenship by birth, provided they apply within five years after reaching the age of eighteen;
- Foreign citizens whose father or mother is a citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan;
- Persons born in the territory of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic who were citizens of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
3) The President of the Republic of Tajikistan may consider the admission of a foreign citizen or a stateless person into the citizenship of the Republic of Tajikistan without meeting the conditions stipulated in Article 15 of this Constitutional Law.