Work during study
Kazakhstan's Law No. 477-IV 'On Migration of Population' (22 July 2011), in its official English translation published by the Ministry of Justice's ' ƌdіlet' legal information system, sets out a dedicated Chapter 5 ('Immigration for the Purpose of Receiving Education') covering students admitted to general secondary, technical/professional, post-secondary, higher and post-graduate educational programmes. Article 33's list of what education-purpose immigrants 'shall' do contains only the obligations quoted below — general immigrant obligations, and an obligation to leave Kazakhstan on completing the full course of study or professional training absent other legal grounds to stay — with no clause granting a right to work. This is a contrast the Law itself draws elsewhere: Article 29, covering a different immigrant category (family-reunification immigrants), explicitly states conditions under which those immigrants 'shall have the right to carrying out of labour activity.' No equivalent labour-activity right is stated anywhere in Chapter 5 for education-purpose immigrants; work in Kazakhstan is instead organised as its own separate immigration purpose entirely, under Chapter 6 ('Immigration for the Purpose of Carrying out of Labour Activity'), covering labour immigrants who arrive specifically for self-employment in professions in demand or for work under an employer's foreign-labour quota.
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“2. Immigrants arrived for the purpose of receiving education shall:
1) incur obligations provided by the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan in respect of immigrants stayed in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
2) obliged to leave the Republic of Kazakhstan upon completion of the full course of studies and (or) professional training, if there are no legal grounds for the further stay.”
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Kazakhstan's Law 'On Citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan' (20 December 1991, as amended), published by the Ministry of Justice's official legal-information system, sets out in Article 16 who may be admitted to Kazakhstani citizenship: persons lawfully and permanently residing in Kazakhstan for not less than 5 years, or persons married to a citizen of Kazakhstan for not less than 3 years. That 5-year/3-year residence requirement is waived for minors, legally incapacitated persons, and people who either have special services to Kazakhstan or hold a profession meeting requirements on a list set by the President, along with their family members. A separate, unconditional route exists for citizens of former union republics who arrived to permanently reside in Kazakhstan and have a close relative (child, spouse, parent, sibling, or grandparent) who is a Kazakhstani citizen, regardless of how long they have resided in Kazakhstan. On dual nationality, the Law's Article 3 states the country's position without qualification: 'citizenship of another state is not recognised for a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan' — Kazakhstan does not recognise or permit dual citizenship.
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“Статья 16. Условия приема в гражданство Республики Казахстан
В гражданство Республики Казахстан могут быть приняты:
1) лица, постоянно проживающие на территории Республики Казахстан на законных основаниях не менее пяти лет либо состоящие в браке с гражданами Республики Казахстан не менее трех лет.”
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