Existing Statelessness determination procedure Will the establishment of a statelessness determination procedure create a “pull factor”? It is unlikely that the establishment of SDPs will create a “pull factor” (i.e. draw persons to countries with SDPs for the purpose of receiving benefits). Countries that have established an SDP have not seen large numbers of people applying for statelessness status. France, the State with the longest tradition of recognizing and protecting stateless persons, received an average of 224 applications for statelessness status between 2010 and 2016.18 In 2018, France received 420 applications for statelessness status and made 71 findings of statelessness status and 122 findings of statelessness refugee status. Although the number of applications increased, OFPRA, the determining authority, states that the admission rate is stable.19 Hungary received 284 applications in total between the establishment of the procedure in 2007 and 30 July 2019. In Moldova, 1,144 persons applied for statelessness status between the establishment of the procedure in 2012 and December 2019. In the United Kingdom, in 2018, a total of 1,195 persons applied to the SDP and there were 27 grants of leave to remain in the United Kingdom as a stateless person (stateless leave). 18 For more details please see: https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/fr/apatridie/quelques-chiffres 19 OFPRA, A l’écoute du monde, Rapport d’activité 2018, page 26, available at: https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/sites/default/ files/atoms/files/ofpra_ra_2018_web_pages_hd.pdf U N H C R > G P P AC T I O N 6 : E S TA B L I S H I N G S TAT E L E S S N E S S D E T E R M I N AT I O N P R O C E D U R E S 9