Good practices in access to universal birth registration for the prevention of childhood statelessness be incorrectly attributed the nationality of a parent; the facts and nationality laws must be adequately considered.122 Summary: Good Practice Indicators: Birth registration and prevention of statelessness 1. Robust legal framework for immediate, free birth registration for all children, with no barriers relating to parents’ status, including immigration or residence status, marital status, gender of parents, ethnicity, etc. 2. Accessible procedures with no discrimination or other barriers to birth registration 3. Flexible evidentiary requirements 4. Birth registration is accessible beyond any deadline, without penalties that inhibit birth registration 5. Authorities are required to register a birth if the parents do not, especially for foundlings 6. Requirement that undocumented expectant mothers be admitted to public hospitals on request and issued identity documents to facilitate registration of their child’s birth 7. Prohibition on sharing data between birth registration and immigration enforcement authorities 8. Appropriate details recorded in birth registry and on birth certificates 9. Law requires consideration of the best interests of the child as a primary consideration 10. State is required to issue free birth certificates to all children, promptly and with no discrimination 11. Parents are referred to an effective nationality status determination procedure if child’s nationality is not clearly that of the country of birth 12. Procedural safeguards available, such as free interpreters, legal assistance and effective remedies 13. Effective training for all relevant officials 14. Awareness-raising campaigns, especially to provide information to marginalized people 122 See ENS, Birth registration and the prevention of statelessness in Europe, p. 12. 50