Over 360 thousand residents of the Transnistrian region are citizens of the Republic of Moldova

According to the information provided by the Public Services Agency, on 30 June 2024, 369 183 residents living in the Transnistrian region were registered in the State Population Register:

- 360 215 hold the citizenship of the Republic of Moldova (330 538 in 2020 or +29 677/ 8.2%),

- 339 377 possess passports of the citizen of the Republic of Moldova (305 406 in 2020 or +33 971/ 10%),

- 303 708 identity cards (274 198 in 2020 or +29 510/ 9.7%).

Due to the amendments to the normative framework on simplifying the procedure for obtaining citizenship of the Republic of Moldova, between 19 April 2018 and 30 June 2024, according to the new legal provisions, 39,176 people were recognized as citizens of the Republic of Moldova, of which 26,350 (67%) were residents of the Transnistrian region, who also received an identity card of a citizen of the Republic of Moldova.

It should be noted that in 2023, the number of residents of the Transnistrian region who obtained identity documents as citizens of the Republic of Moldova amounted to 2,365 and for the first six months of 2024 their number was 1 909 beneficiaries.

A constant dynamic is maintained in the process of documentation with national model documents of foreigners from the Transnistrian region, in the first semester of 2024 8 968 persons were registered, out of which 4 101 are holders of permanent residence permits, 1 732 – temporary residence permits, 1 247 – identity cards for stateless persons, 5 – identity cards for refugees and 12 – identity cards for beneficiaries of humanitarian protection.