Emigrants (EU15) 11,370 2,492 8,988 22,850

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1 Kazakhstan (1) Migration stocks and flows Emigrant Stocks Table 1: Stock of emigrants in 2010 (thousands) Destination Emigrant stock CIS Russian Federation 2,648.3 Ukraine Uzbekistan Turkmenistan 18.8 Kyrgyz Republic 6.2 Latvia 11.1 EU Germany 75.1 Other Israel 79.3 United States 11.9 Canada 7.5 Other countries Total 3,719.8 Note: Data is for foreign born population in the destination country. Foreign nationality data is used where this data is not available. Source: Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 Table 2: Emigrants from Kazakhstan by destination and by educational attainment, 2000 (persons) Destination Low Medium High Total Emigrants (America) 39 1,512 7,187 8,738 Emigrants (Europe) 12,526 4,458 10,596 27,580 Emigrants (EU15) 11,370 2,492 8,988 22,850 Emigrants (Asia and Oceania) Note: Low primary or 0 8 years of education; Medium secondary or 9 12 years of education; High tertiary or 13 years or more of education. This data is for migrants of age 25+ in most cases. Source: Docquier, Frédéric and Abdeslam Marfouk, International Migration by Educational Attainment Release 1.1. March 2005.

2 Table 3: Emigration of Physicians, stocks Year Number of physician emigrants Number of physicians in Kazakhstan Medical Brain Drain , % , % , % , % , % , % , % , % , % , % , % , % , % , % Source: Bhargava, Alok, Frédéric Docquier and Yasser Moullan. Revised panel data set on physician emigration ( ). February Immigrant Stocks Table 4: Immigrant stock as of 2010 (foreign nationals, thousands) Origin Immigrant stock CIS Russian Fed. 2,226.7 Ukraine Uzbekistan Belarus 55.6 Azerbaijan 38.9 Tajikistan 12.8 Moldova 9.7 EU Germany Poland 23.5 Other Turkey 37.7 Other countries 42.6 Total 3,079.5 Source: Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 Note: This data is based on the 1999 Kazakhstan Census. Kazakhstan conducted a census in 2009, whose results on migrants are not yet available.

3 Migration flows Table 5: Migration flows (thousands) Year Immigrants Emigrants Source: Statistical Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Statistical Indicators. Refugee population Table 5: Refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons Country of asylum: Kazakhstan Country of origin: Kazakhstan Refugees 616 3,500 People in refugee like situations.... Total refugees and people in refugee like situations 616 3,500 Asylum seekers (pending cases) Returned refugees.... IDPs protected/ assisted by UNHCR, incl. people in IDP like situations.... Returned IDPs.... Stateless persons 7,337.. Various Total population of concern 11,705 4,245 Source: UNHCR 2011 Global Trends (June 2012)

4 (2) Remittance flows and channels Remittance flows Table 6: Quarterly remittance flows (BPM5 Framework)* Inflows Outflows (US $, millions) 2009 Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q ,004.9 Source: IMF Balance of Payments Database * BPM5: The fifth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual was published in 1993 and serves as the standard framework for statistics on the transactions and positions between an economy and the rest of the world. Table 7: Annual remittance flows (BPM5 Framework)* (US $, millions) Inflows Outflows Source: IMF Balance of Payments Database * BPM5: The fifth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual was published in 1993 and serves as the standard framework for statistics on the transactions and positions between an economy and the rest of the world.

5 Table 8: Annual remittance flows (BPM6 Framework)* Inflows Outflows n.a. n.a. Personal n.a. n.a. o.w. Workers n.a. n.a. Personal n.a. n.a. Total n.a. n.a. Total and n.a. n.a. Note: This section is currently blank but will be filled when BPM6 is implemented in Kazakhstan * BPM6: The sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual was published in 2007 and is currently being implemented by countries around the world. Channels of flows providers Information flows through commercial banks, post offices, savings cooperatives, microfinance institutions, mobile money is currently unavailable. Remittance costs Table 9: Cost of sending from Russia to Kazakhstan (percent) Cost of sending $200 Cost of sending $ Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Source: World Bank Remittance Price Database

6 (3) Regulations pertaining to migration & Table 10: Regulations pertaining to migration Immigration topic Regulation Institutions responsible for immigration Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan (portal.mfa.kz) Immigration regulations and laws Immigration quotas by nationality of origin Types of visas available for immigrants Transit, tourist, diplomatic/official, business, private visa for prospective adoptive parents. Types of occupations in which immigrants are allowed Emigration topic Institutions responsible for emigration Restrictions on emigration Cost of passports and visas Dual citizenship Regulation No Table 11: Regulations pertaining to Remittances topic Regulation Institutions responsible for monitoring and National Bank of Kazakhstan (nationalbank.kz) regulating Types of private sector firms allowed to perform inward and outward remittance transactions Reporting requirement for data by commercial banks and other types of remittance service providers Restrictions on inward/outward Anti money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML CFT) requirements

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