Some 15,000 applications for Bulgarian citizenship have piled up since 2013 for lack of the papers required, said Deputy Justice Minister Petko Petkov at the hearing of the parliamentary committee on policies towards Bulgarians living abroad. “This only concerns the procedure of acquiring Bulgarian citizenship by descent in those cases when the certificate of descent issued by the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad is not accompanied by official documents corroborating this descent,” he says. “This year there are 4,000 certificates issued by the Agency without these official documents. Of them, around …read more
Source: Radio Bulgaria
