Lack of citizenship can be a serious obstacle in finding a job even if a person has all the required skills and background. This is what happened to another character of our project Galina Ivanova from Tajikistan (name was changed per her request), who we talked to under our Without Borders project, and who does not have a single chance of professional self-realization due to the absence of citizenship documents.
Asya Akimzhanova
January 12th, 2021
Presently I live in Tajikistan. I followed my husband; it is his home country. In fact, in 2010 we all moved here from Russia – me, my future husband (our marriage was not yet registered then) and our oldest son. I crossed the border of the country with my Ukrainian passport, I was born in Kharkov oblast where I also attended school for 11 years and graduated a technical construction school.
I lost my passport after having lived in Tajikistan for several years. It might sound strange but these days I cannot even recall how I lost my passport. I think we went to the airport to pick up relatives and it was a hurry-scurry, something kept on happening. After we returned home and after some time passed I discovered that my passport was missing.
The most important thing is that I never could have imagined that my life without a passport would turn out to be so difficult … extremely difficult
