Russia has apparently given super-leaker Edward Snowden de facto permanent residence.
State-owned newswire TASS on Thursday reported that Snowden’s lawyer, a chap named Anatoly Kucherena, dropped in to tell it that Snowden has been granted an “open-ended residence permit”.
Snowden was granted a three-year residency permit in 2014, then offered a three-year extension.
That permit was due to expire in April 2020, but Russian immigration bureaucracy was slowed by local lockdowns so Snowden’s status was assured until June.
Kucherena said he applied for an extension as soon as possible and that request was granted.
Snowden’s open-ended stay appears to have been made possible by 2019 reforms to Russian immigration rules that make it easier for highly-skilled workers to adopt the nation as their home. In 2017 SnowdenWhile permanent residence offers a pathway to citizenshi ..
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