Official Ministry draftSnapshot at 1 June 2025
≈51,985Unresolved citizenship files
Published in a Ministry draft document; not a live queue or final administrative report.
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Bulgaria’s published citizenship data, made legible.
A source-linked view of workload, processing and outcomes. Files are not people, Council reviews are not approvals, and snapshots are not live counters.
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Published workload and outcomes
Official Ministry draftSnapshot at 1 June 2025
≈27,700Past the statutory proposal period
Described by the Ministry as delayed beyond the Article 35 proposal period.
Source recordOfficial Ministry draftSnapshot at 1 June 2025
3,018Awaiting authenticity checks
A published subgroup, not a full explanation of the backlog.
Source recordOfficialCalendar year 2025
19,841New citizenship-change files
Files formed across citizenship-change procedures in 2025.
Source recordOfficialCalendar year 2025
23,465Cases reviewed by the Citizenship Council
Reviewed does not mean approved.
Source recordOfficialCalendar year 2025
15,794People covered by citizenship-change decrees
People covered by 158 Vice-Presidential decrees.
Source recordPrepiska calculationJanuary–June 2026
7,036Citizenship acquisitions
Prepiska calculation from Q1 and Q2 Presidency reports.
Source recordPrepiska calculationJanuary–June 2026
1,280Refusals
Prepiska calculation from Q1 and Q2 Presidency reports.
Source recordBacklog composition
Which file years made up the snapshot?
This is a stock snapshot by file year—not evidence that every file is processed strictly in numerical order.
2024 origin / Bulgarian-parent files
The applicant base is overwhelmingly international.
Named nationality rows total 20,631, including Kosovo (8), while the printed table total is 21,108. The unexplained 477-file difference remains visible.
Where 2024 applications were filed
This total covers every citizenship-change route, not only the nationality cohort beside it.
13,560Diplomatic or consular post
10,366Directly at the Ministry
Total: 23,926 newly formed files.
Public source ledger
Every claim has a document behind it.
Publisher / documentCoverageCadenceRecord
Bulgarian Ministry of JusticeDraft report on amendments to the Ministry organisational rules — Citizenship Directorate sectionOfficial Ministry draft1 June 2025irregularInspect
National Assembly / Ministry of JusticeOfficial answer on 2024 citizenship applications and pending files31 December 2024irregularInspect
Bulgarian Ministry of JusticeMinistry of Justice annual activity report for 202531 December 2025annualInspect
President of the Republic of BulgariaBulgarian citizenship report — first quarter 202631 March 2026quarterlyInspect
President of the Republic of BulgariaBulgarian citizenship report — second quarter 202630 June 2026quarterlyInspect
Source watch
Changes are detected; numbers are never auto-published.
Last approved review2026-07-26
Publication families watched12
Automatic publicationOFF
Public change history
- Approved the first fingerprinted baseline for 12 official publication families.
- Added quarantine rules: no changed source can update a metric before period, unit, definition and totals are reviewed.
- Published the 477-file reconciliation gap in the 2024 nationality table instead of inventing a category.
What publications do not tell us
Missing data stays visibly missing.
- No live public backlog total
- No documented public API for individual status
- No official queue position
- No recurring machine-readable citizenship dataset
- No reliable individual decision forecast