As of August 30, more than 4,300 forcibly displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh have applied for Armenian citizenship, of which around 3,000 were granted citizenship. The head of the Migration and Citizenship Service of Armenia, Armen Ghazaryan, announced this during Tuesday’s meeting of the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly of Armenia.

"An important consideration should be taken into account here: minors do not apply for being granted [Armenian] citizenship because after granting [Armenian] citizenship to their parents, the minor becomes an Armenian citizen by changing the passport," added Ghazaryan.

According to the head of the Migration and Citizenship Service of Armenia, a simplified procedure for being granted Armenian citizenship is already in place for the forcibly displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh.

"According to the [Armenian] law on citizenship, 90 working days—about four months—are specified. But in the case of persons forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh, the process lasts two months on average.

The second important circumstance, which has never happened in the history of this system, we are using for the first time: all our territorial divisions in provinces are accepting applications for citizenship; and this considerably speeds up the process.

We speed up also the processes as much as possible. If, for example, they have a birth certificate problem, we work with our colleagues at the Ministry of Justice to solve these problems in a quick way," Armen Ghazaryan concluded.