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Stateless persons to be permitted to transfer their assets to the place of their resettlement. Article 31: Stateless persons not to be expelled except on grounds of national security or public order. Article 32: Contracting States shall facilitate assimilation and naturalization of stateless persons. Article 33:
However, not all refugees are stateless, and many people who are stateless have never crossed an international border. [3] At the end of 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated 4.4 million people worldwide as either stateless or of undetermined nationality, 90,800 (+2%) more than at the end of 2021.
Another stateless situation arises when a person holds a travel document (passport) which recognizes the bearer as having the nationality of a "state" which is not internationally recognized, has no entry into the International Organization for Standardization's country list, is not a member of the United Nations, etc.
The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness is a 1961 United Nations multilateral treaty whereby sovereign states agree to reduce the incidence of statelessness.The Convention was originally intended as a Protocol to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, while the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons was adopted to cover stateless persons who are not ...
SPRs that want to obtain a COI have to complete two forms, that are available from the embassy or can be downloaded from the internet, and appear in person with two recent passport-sized colour photographs of the applicant against a white background with a matt or semi-matt finish, the following documents (original and photocopy) of the applicant's blue identity card and their latest COI (if ...
The decision is notable for having overturned Al-Kateb v Godwin, in which the Gleeson court held the Migration Act could be applied to authorise the indefinite detention of stateless persons. The court ruled that when properly interpreted, the Migration Act was beyond the legislative power of the Commonwealth insofar as it applied to the plaintiff.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -TikTok must now move quickly with a request to the Supreme Court to block or overturn a law that would require its Chinese parent ByteDance to divest of the short-video app ...
A 1954 Convention travel document issued in Germany in 2008 Australian Certificate of Identity, serves as a Stateless Travel Document. A 1954 Convention travel document is a travel document, unlike a Stateless travel document (stateless person by a signatory to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons), issued to a person in circumstances of any difficulties in gaining a ...