On 7 June, the State Migration Service Directorate in the Cherkasy region, Ukraine started issuing its new stateless travel document, which now meets the latest international standards on travel documents. The document is issued to stateless persons who permanently or temporarily reside in the country and the validity of the document was extended from three to ten years. On 12 May, the Government of Georgia reduced the statelessness status application fee by half in order to improve access to the procedure, in line with one of its pledges made at the 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness. On 14 and 25 May, in Morocco, UNHCR and the Law Faculties of Rabat, Oujda, and Casablanca organized three webinars on statelessness attended by close to 100 students and members of legal clinics. Participants were briefed on the causes and consequences of statelessness, the international legal framework on the protection of stateless persons, and the prevention of statelessness in the Moroccan context. The events aimed to raise awareness of statelessness among future law practitioners and o strengthen the capacity of legal clinics to assist migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in birth registration procedures. A girl from the district of Tarapacá in Chile recently had her Chilean nationality confirmed. The newly adopted law on migration in Chile includes important safeguards against statelessness. ©UNHCR/David Alarcón On 17 May, the Government of Mexico reformed Article 30 of its Constitution regarding the acquisition of Mexican nationality. The revised Article allows children born abroad to acquire Mexican citizenship if one or both parents are Mexican nationals, regardless of whether or not they were born in Mexico. In line with Action 6, on 30 March, the Cabinet of Thailand approved the inclusion of a group of 5,000 stateless students in the National Healthcare Fund for Persons with Legal Status Problems. This followed an earlier decision to include a group of 3,000 students in September 2020, and will allow these students to access government health facilities free of charge. In May and June, in Ukraine, pursuant to the 2020 law establishing a Statelessness Determination Procedure, the State Migration Service (SMS) rolled it out across all 25 provinces. As of 18 June, 140 applications were processed by the SMS. Statelessness status will allow individuals to legally reside in Ukraine and access other rights. The Deputy Head of the State Migration Service of Ukraine, Ms. Natalia Naumenko, announced during Refugee Day celebrations in Kiev that 140 stateless determination procedure applications had been submitted as of 18 June. © Arena CS/Andriy Krephih 8

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