The Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, presented the Carta Serbica program in Belgrade, on the basis of which foreign nationals of Serbian origin can obtain a one-year residence permit and apply for Serbian citizenship.
Brnabić said that those included foreign nationals who had been born in the diaspora or left Serbia due to some living circumstances and renounced their Serbian citizenship.
She stated that the program also included additional reliefs and incentives, such as tax and customs reliefs and allowing tax non-residents to take housing loans in cooperation with the Postal Savings bank.
The Carta Serbica program is implemented by the organization Point of Return, and its director, Ivan Brkljač, says that applications are open to all those of second or third generation Serbian origin, born abroad, displaced during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, as well as those who had to renounce Serbian citizenship due to some living circumstances.
The first beneficiary of this program is Aleksandar Zurovac, who first left his birthplace Drniš, in Croatia, as a boy and then also Serbia for the USA, but is now planning to continue life with his family in Serbia, Belgrade media reported.
Brnabić, Brkljač and Zurovac invited all people from the diaspora to visit the Point of Return’s website for more information about the return and programs such as Carta Serbica.
Source and photo: RTRS