So in today's Tip Thursday with me Conor Clyne we're going to be going into
citizenship by marriage in Russia, Ukraine Moldova and Belarus
Поехали!
Greetings from Odesa in Ukraine now in the past this used to be the center of I guess what is kind
of derogatorily referred to as the mail order bride industry of Eastern Europe so basically
the idea was that these Western white knights would ride in here along the boulevards I'm just
on Primorsky Boulevard in the center of Odesa and rescue some impoverished desperate Ukrainian
girl and whisk her back to the West where his biggest issue might be that she'll turn out to be
a green card girl and actually just be interested in getting the hell out of here and marrying him
as a way to get to the West and a better life right so that has always been the stereotype
but boy have times changed because now you see more and more Western guys doing basically what
I have done and moving to Eastern Europe and they come here for several reasons one is cost
of living is a hell of a lot more attractive here than it is in most of the West the dating options
there are just a lot more higher value dating options for Western guys here than in general
back home and also especially this being 2021 and having gone through you know the last
almost 18 months of this covid mess there's definitely a soft feeling of more freedom here
in Eastern Europe than what we've seen in the West so with more and more guys coming here
obviously if you come as a single guy you are obviously open to meeting someone whether it
happens to be here in Ukraine, Russia Belarus, Moldova or somewhere else in Eastern Europe and
the big question becomes well if you are going to decide to get married or you've met someone
well maybe you in fact are the one who's kind of the green card guy
So let's start with Ukraine now in order to get Ukrainian citizenship by
marriage you need to be married for just two years
and reside with your spouse here in Ukraine in order to qualify for citizenship
pretty quick I think by global standards and the downside maybe for a lot of guys is the fact that
at the moment Ukraine does not recognize dual nationality now of course there was there is still
this Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and he once famously equipped when he was challenged
about him allegedly having more than one passport that just dual nationality is not legal but triple
nationality is fine but for those of you who don't want to give up your passport that's a bit of
an issue if you do have Ukrainian passport how easy is it to travel actually surprisingly good
considering the region and the history of you know passports in this region has not been the best but
Ukraine ranks pretty well it's actually ranked 39 out of 116 on the ranking I looked at and you
can go to 137 countries visa free so it's not a disaster that said you will need a visa to go to
United States to go to Canada currently to go to United Kingdom to go to Ireland my home country
but you don't need a visa to go to Schengen zone which is mostly which is most of the countries in
European Union so not bad as a travel document definitely a lot better than it used to be
So next up is Moldova now you need to be married for three years and reside in Moldova in order
to get the passport so a year more than Ukraine but they do allow dual nationality and in fact
a huge number of Moldovans actually hold Romanian and or Russian nationality as
well because of that so you're not going to have an issue with the dual nationality now as
a travel document it's not quite as good probably as you know the Ukrainian one it was ranked 49th
best passport in the world in that ranking I saw of 116 countries and you get 121 countries visa free
now what's on that list obviously former Soviet Union you actually all of these countries basically
still allow visa-free with the other former Soviet Union countries and on top of that you get visa
free to Schengen so similar to Ukraine but you don't get it to North America and there's actually
a little bit trickier to go to some of the countries that are kind of big
maybe in Latin America for example or some of the other more maybe tourist destinations than
the Ukrainian passport but overall still not a terrible travel document compared to you know
obviously in a global level some of the other countries now Russia what you get what you need
to do in order to get citizenship by marriage in Russia well you need to be married for
three years to a Russian citizens obviously we're talking about they do allow dual nationality but
you will only be considered a Russian citizen by the Russian government they'll just basically
ignore the fact that you have another passport legally as a travel document it's kind of ranked
just behind Moldova you get to go to 119 countries visa-free but Schengen is not included in that so
most European Union will need a visa you do get a what Moldova doesn't have which is
a lot more of those holiday destinations and obviously you can't go to North America either
without a visa so still like Moldova not a disaster but not as attractive as having say
the Ukrainian passport in terms of being able to travel with it now the last country bella Belarus
so Belarus is a bit harder you need to be married and resident of Belarus for
five years so gonna take a bit longer unless you have a minor child so a child under 18
would bring it down to three years residency so that's actually a new law that came in to
actually reduce it from seven it actually had been seven previously in Belarus and actually
about two months ago the law got changed so it has gotten a little bit easier now
do they allow dual nationality uh-uh not allowed dual nationality so you will have
to give up your other passport that you currently have unless you're stateless
at the moment when you're watching this video as a travel document how is it well it's definitely
a lot less attractive than the other passports that I've mentioned so on that ranking was ranked
73rd out of 116 countries kind of mid way on a global level you have visa free to 77 countries
it is pretty straightforward to get a Schengan visa nowadays with a Belarusian passport so maybe
you do it once and you don't really have to worry about it again you get visa free to the other
Soviet republics but you don't get visa-free obviously too United States Canada United Kingdom
Ireland Schengen and a lot of countries basically well as you can gather all over the world
you need to get a visa so harder to travel at the same time you know you get to go to the Emirates I'm
just thinking of other places I've met Belarusian girls apparently been able to travel pretty easily
Turkey and whatnot so it's not like you're going to be stuck in Belarus
because of needing visas if you want to go on holidays and stuff but definitely a lot less
attractive than the others so something to consider if you become a Belarusian
So there's my enjoyable overview of the options
of gaining citizenship by marriage in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova now I dive into these
options for gaining residency and eventually citizenship if that's what you want
in my Slavic Utopia Secrets programs they are for those countries I'm gonna put links down below
in description to this video so that you can get in on that if you are considering relocating to
one of those four countries also you need to be on my free mailing list of course because that's
when I notify you when there are new launches I only open up exclusively to my most loyal fans who are
on that mailing list so down below there's a link to the Tsar's hot spots here in Odesa Mama Kyiv
and Minsk in Belarus you get that completely for free just down below in the description to the
video and you know this is one way to gain obviously citizenship it's not normally what
my clients want to do and it should only be something you consider if you actually are
in a serious relationship with someone from one of these four countries of course and there
are plenty of other ways to you know if you just want to live here to do that without getting
married in fact there are especially for Ukraine there's pretty straightforward ways to gain
residency here and not only do we go into those other residency options in my exclusive high-level
consultation groups which are below those programs for each of the countries also going to things
like the amazing real estate markets in Eastern Europe we also look at what you need to do in
terms of healthcare here how you develop a network so you're not Billy no-mates when you show up
what happens to be here in Ukraine because you might have your spouse but there's more in life
than just having a spouse you do need a circle of friends on top of that we're going to obviously go
into how you can overcome the language barrier I actually have a lot of experience with that
because I learned previously over 10 languages and I obviously as you can see from my vlogs
here speak Russian and actually some Ukrainian, Romanian and even Belarusian so have the languages
the main languages obviously of the region covered and I can help you with overcoming that language
barrier set up a plan for you and you don't want to miss out actually on creating a network here
for the business opportunities because there are a lot of things have been validated in the West
have not quite arrived here in Ukraine and there are also interesting business options for you
to invest in so with that I hope you enjoyed today's video and I will see you in the next
one so до свидания до побачення from Odesa Mama which is kind of ironic when you're talking about marriage
because all those green card girls this is one of the main spots that they were marketed from along with
Mykolaiv which is just up along the coast here in the Black Sea about three hours away but yeah
don't fall for any of that of all that fancy marketing about them all been desperately
waiting for you to come and save them you should be coming here yourself consider a move ciao-ciao!