Dokument #1066152
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
The information that follows pertains to
the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution as a state at the end of
1991.
For information on whether ethnicity was
indicated in internal passports, please consult Responses to
Information Requests SUN19164.E of 13 December 1994, SUN19269.E of
13 December 1994, SUN13238.E of 1 March 1993, SUN6649 of 14 August
1990, as well as the attachment. For information on whether
ethnicity was indicated in birth certificates, please consult
Responses to Information Requests SUN19164.E of 13 December 1994
and SUN20208.E of 27 March 1995. For information on whether
ethnicity was indicated in military books and labour books, please
consult the attachment.
In a telephone interview of 19 July 1995,
the Chicago-based International Director of the Human Rights
Bureaus in the Former Soviet Union, of the Union of Councils for
Soviet Jews, provided the following information. Ethnicity was not
indicated in the external (international) passports in the former
Soviet Union.
For information on circumstances under
which people were required to show their birth certificates, which
may be of interest, please consult Response to Information Request
SUN19163.E of 13 December 1994. For a circumstance under which
people were required to show their internal passport, which may be
of interest, please consult Response to Information Request SUN8688
of 31 May 1991. For information on circumstances under which people
were asked their parents' ethnicities, which may be of interest,
please consult Response to Information Request SUN19270.E of 19
January 1995.
In a telephone interview on 21 July 1995,
the Chicago-based International Director of the Human Rights
Bureaus in the Former Soviet Union, of the Union of Councils for
Soviet Jews, provided the following information. The situations
under which ethnicity is required to be indicated, as stated in the
attached letter of 6 July 1995 that was sent to the DIRB, apply to
the former Soviet Union and to the post-Soviet states, including
Ukraine.
For a list of circumstances under which
ethnicity had to be mentioned, please consult the attachment
referred to in the previous paragraph.
For related information on these questions
as they pertain to Ukraine, please consult Response to Information
Request UKR21142.E of 27 July 1995.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews
(UCSJ), Chicago. 21 July 1995. Telephone interview with
International Director of Human Rights Bureaus in the Former Soviet
Union.
_____. 19 July 1995. Telephone interview
with International Director of Human Rights Bureaus in the Former
Soviet Union.
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews
(UCSJ), Chicago. 6 July 1995. Facsimile sent to the DIRB.