More than 34,000 refugees from Karabakh have received Armenian citizenship.

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34,576 refugees from Karabakh have received Armenian citizenship; five thousand have applied for it since the beginning of the year.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," as of the end of last year, more than 26,000 refugees from Karabakh had received Armenian citizenship. Many of them called the decision forced, as finding work and participating in the housing program was otherwise impossible.

As of the second half of March of this year, 34,576 refugees from Karabakh have received Armenian citizenship, Interior Minister Arpine Sargsyan announced on March 20 at a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on labor and social issues.

Sargsyan also reported that 28,000 minors have moved from Karabakh to Armenia, 12,000 of whom have already received Armenian citizenship.

Furthermore, according to the minister, 5,000 applications for citizenship were received in the first two and a half months of this year. By comparison, there were approximately 4,000 such applications in the first half of last year.

Armenian authorities have made citizenship a mandatory requirement for participation in the housing program. By September 6, 2025, more than 16,000 refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh have received Armenian citizenship, including five thousand minors who receive citizenship automatically following their parents. By September 23, 2,823 Karabakh refugee families had received certificates under the Armenian government's housing program, of which 907 used the certificates.