Over 16,000 forcibly displaced Nagorno-|Karabakh Armenians  nationalized in Armenia 

ArmInfo. As of September 2, more than 16 thousand internally displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh have received citizenship of the Republic of  Armenia, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Armen Ghazaryan said at  a meeting of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security on  September 5.

According to him, 11,259 of them received RA citizenship by decree of  the country's president. In addition, due to the citizenship of their  parents, more than 5 thousand minors received RA passports.

At the same time, the deputy minister noted that if, within the  framework of the standard procedure, applications for obtaining RA  citizenship are considered within ninety working days from the date  of receipt by the Migration and Citizenship Service of the RA  Ministry of Internal Affairs, then in the case of IDPs from Artsakh,  the period is reduced to 2 months.

Having RA citizenship is a mandatory condition for participation in  the program for providing housing to IDPs from Artsakh.

Internally displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh are exempt from  paying the state fee for obtaining Armenian citizenship from  September 1, 2025. Meanwhile, in January of this year, the state fee  was increased 50 times, it amounted to 50 thousand drams (about $  110).

On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan, under the pretext of an  "anti-terrorist operation", committed another act of aggression  against Artsakh. This was preceded by an almost 10-month blockade of  the unrecognized republic. Since the enemy aggression that began in  the fall of 2020, which in September 2023 ended in the complete  ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, over 150 thousand Artsakh residents have  lost their homeland and become refugees.