Legal briefing: Statelessness and the right to respect for private and family life October 2024 ................................................................................................................................................ 2 ...................................................................3 1.1. Definition of a stateless person ...........................................................................................3 1.2. The rights of stateless persons in international law .......................................................4 1.3. Statelessness and the right to respect for family and private life .............................. 6 ..................................................................... 13 2.1. Protection of stateless persons and routes to regularisation ............................... 13 2.2. Family reunification ......................................................................................................... 18 2.3. Nationality as an element of personal identity: legal parentage, identity documents, birth registration and the right to a nationality ............................................. 20 2.4. Acquisition, denial and deprivation of nationality ................................................... 25 2.5. Deprivation of liberty and removal procedures ......................................................... 31 2.6. Right to respect for private and family life in conjunction with other ECHR provisions ...................................................................................................................................... 33 ................................................................... 36 ............................................................................................................................................... 44 ..................................................................................................................................... 45