After you graduate
Rules read 19 Aug 2026
What Uzbekistan's own immigration authority currently publishes. Not a ranking, not a guarantee, and not the same as what any agent or forum will tell you. Whether someone actually obtains residence depends on occupation, points, funds and policy that can change between application and graduation.
Route to citizenship
Uzbekistan's Law No. ZRU-610 'On Citizenship of the Republic of Uzbekistan' (13 March 2020), published in full by lex.uz, the National Database of Legislation (Milliy qonun hujjatlari ma'lumotlari bazasi), sets out in Article 19 the general procedure for admission to Uzbek citizenship, applicable to a citizen of a foreign state or a stateless person who: (a) has formalised renunciation of their foreign state's citizenship; (b) has permanently and continuously resided in the territory of Uzbekistan for 5 years, counted from the date of receiving a residence permit; (c) has a lawful source of livelihood; (d) undertakes to abide by the Constitution of Uzbekistan; and (e) has command of the state language to the extent needed for communication, assessed under a procedure set by the Cabinet of Ministers. The 5-year residence condition (item b) is waived for a stateless person who was born and lives in Uzbekistan, or for someone married to an Uzbek citizen who has lived continuously with their spouse in Uzbekistan for 3 years since the marriage; a period abroad totalling no more than 183 days within a given year does not break continuity of residence. Item (a) states Uzbekistan's position on dual nationality plainly: formal renunciation of the applicant's existing foreign citizenship is itself one of the conditions for ordinary naturalisation — Uzbekistan does not permit a naturalising citizen to retain their original nationality under this general procedure. A separate, simplified procedure (Article 20) exists for an ethnic-Uzbek 'compatriot' with a direct-ancestor relative who is an Uzbek citizen, which does not list renunciation among its conditions in the same way.
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New entry added 19 August 2026. One Uzbekistani government domain added to IMMIGRATION_DOMAINS in scripts/verify.mjs: lex.uz (the National Database of Legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the country's official legislative-text repository). gov.uz (the national government portal) was also checked — its 'Выдача разрешения на постоянное проживание' page confirmed the existence of a permanent-residence permit and named the Citizenship Law as the governing act, but itself carried no numeric criteria, so it was not used as the final citation. workDuringStudy, postStudyWork and residencyRoute are all left null: this dataset searched gov.uz and lex.uz (including its Labour Code and a 2019 Cabinet resolution on the procedure for engaging and using foreign labour) but found no page specifically addressing a foreign student's right to work during their studies, a distinct post-study job-search permit, or the specific residence-length/criteria route from a study-purpose stay into the 'permanent residence permit' (вид на жительство) that Article 19's 5-year clock itself runs from — gov.uz's own residence-permit page named the governing legal acts (the Citizenship Law, a Presidential Decree, and a 2020 Cabinet resolution) without reproducing their content as page text. This is recorded as an absence of found information, not a confirmed 'no'; a future collector could pursue Постановление Кабинета Министров № 49 от 30.01.2020 г. (named on gov.uz as governing residence-permit issuance) directly on lex.uz. inDemandOccupations is left null for the same reason. naturalisationStatus set to 'published-route': the Citizenship Law publishes real, lettered residence-length, language, conduct and livelihood criteria for ordinary naturalisation, and states its renunciation-of-original-citizenship requirement in plain terms — per the doc comment on ResidencyPathway.naturalisationStatus this field records only whether criteria are published, not how demanding Uzbekistan's 5-year route or state-language test are in practice. citizenshipTerms records the Article 19 general procedure: 5 years of continuous permanent residence, counted from the date the residence permit was issued. dualCitizenshipAllowed is false because formalised renunciation of the applicant’s existing foreign citizenship is itself condition (a) of that same article.
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