Why the immigration status of the category “Native speaker of the russian language” failed

The article analyzes the administrative and legal aspects of regulation of the immigration status “native speaker of the Russian language”, considered as a legal mechanism of accelerated acquisition of citizenship in the Russian Federation, which has lost its legal force. The author argues that the very structure of the internal elements of the legislative consolidation of this migration mechanism was proposed in such a way that the stages of its implementation created a set of problems, which were not solved constructively and in a timely manner by the state. Ultimately, this led to a loss of initiative.