In Yekaterinburg, a Russian father of seven children is being expelled from Russia.

      In Yekaterinburg, a Russian father of seven children is being deported from Russia

      Today at 15:02, Viktor Shilov, a resident of Kamensk-Uralsky and father of seven children, is being deported from Russia. His asylum application was denied, and he was purchased a ticket to Uzbekistan, although his family remains in Russia. Viktor’s wife, who is not officially employed, is now forced to support their children alone. Publishing this story is E1.RU.

      Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Chelyabinsk Region

      Viktor was born in the Uzbek SSR, but his parents were citizens of the USSR, and his father was a native of Perm. After the collapse of the USSR, he obtained Uzbek citizenship, but in 2003, he moved to the Urals, where he started a family with Yulia. They had seven children. Over time, his Uzbek passport became invalid, and he was unable to obtain Russian citizenship.

      For all these years, Viktor tried to legalize his status but faced refusals. According to Lyudmila Lukashova, head of the "Ural Refugee Association," the problem is that he formally lost Uzbek citizenship (by not registering abroad), but could not confirm this documentarily.

      — Viktor is our compatriot, protected by the Constitution and the law on compatriots. But he was unlucky: he arrived when the migration service was abolished, and Uzbek authorities did not respond to requests for years, — explains Lukashova.

      Despite having no legal issues (even administrative fines), instead of a fine for violating migration regulations, he was decided to be deported.

      The family is left without a breadwinner

      Viktor’s wife, Yulia, tried to establish paternity, but in Kamensk-Uralsky, they told her the service was paid — 28,000 rubles. For a family that has lost its main provider, this is an unaffordable amount.

      Officials offered Yulia a benefit of 611 rubles.

      Ultimately, Viktor even signed a contract to participate in the special military operation, but bureaucracy again took precedence.

      — I signed the contract, but I am already being deported. I haven’t been to Uzbekistan for 22 years, I don’t speak the language, and my passport is expired. I have no idea what to do there. The children are crying, the youngest is three years old, and the oldest already works here.

      Now Viktor is facing deportation with a five-year entry ban to Russia. His family remains unsupported, and he himself is without homeland.

      Unfortunately, there have been many such stories in recent years:

      Vladimir Melnik, a native of the Kazakh SSR, was separated from his wife and children, expelled from Pervouralsk to Kazakhstan with a five-year ban on return.

      We previously reported about another Russian family with two children being expelled from Yekaterinburg with a five-year ban on returning. Luckily, that ended well.

      In Yekaterinburg, a 22-year-old student from Kazakhstan is being expelled. The young man lived in Russia for almost five years and, after studies, found a job at the Ural Regional Center "Podemtranstekhnika."

      In February of this year, we wrote about human rights defenders trying to help a mother of a one-and-a-half-month-old boy, undergoing treatment at the Sverdlovsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital, return from Kyrgyzstan to Russia.