> A Russian passport requires visa application to any of Schengen states. The queues for filing I believe are into months now. I do not think that this will re

> A Russian passport requires visa application to any of Schengen states. The queues for filing I believe are into months now. I do not think that this will really be a motivating factor. Schengen visa waiting times would be the least of a stateless person's concerns. > Indeed, and people who can't be arsed to naturalize clearly don't see it either. I am not sure if you are suggesting that non-citizens are refusing to naturalise because they would lose visa-free access to Russia and the Schengen area. Historically, the most commonly-cited barriers to Estonian naturalisation have been the difficulty of the citizenship test and of learning the language, according to the Estonian ministry of culture. The context of the thread was someone suggesting that naturalisation be made easier.