Mass submission of a request for printing from citizenship of BiH

The request for print out of citizenship of BiH in the past three years was submitted by 12,157 persons, data of the Council of Ministers of BiH submitted to the BiH House of Representatives.

According to these data, in 2015, 3,576 citizens gave up their citizenship, a year later almost a thousand more or 4,386, and last year the number was slightly lower 4.195. SNSD deputy in the parliament of BiH and member of the Joint Parliamentary Commission for Human Rights Lazar Prodanovic said that data on the number of people who are being written out of BiH citizenship are alarming and devastating.

Prodanovic says that people who print out citizenship of BiH never again have the intention to return to the country. "In the last ten years, the demographic picture of BiH has deteriorated dramatically. If this trend continues, in 30 years BiH will remain without half the population," Prodanovic pointed out. He believes that the departure of the population is mostly contributed by the lack of perspective, the poor economic situation and the very turbulent security and political situation.

Prodanovic adds that it is obvious that the state of life in BiH is far worse than in other countries of Yugoslavia, which also had war conflicts, but turned to the future and development. "BiH has been stagnating and falling back in every sense for years," Prodanovic said. In order to become citizens of Germany, Austria, Slovenia or some other country, about 75,000 people have waived the BiH passport for the past 20 years, for which they paid more than 40 million KM.

To waive citizenship, an administrative fee of 800 KM is paid, while the exception is that those who print out citizenship require that they become citizens of some of the countries of the former Yugoslavia, for which the fee is 200 KM.

• 4 Feb, 2018
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