It is not clear what happens if a stateless person has failed to secure a travel document on humanitarian or accessibility grounds, or if their documents are rejected as insufficient to prove their identity by the Ministry of Immigration, Integration and Housing (the authority responsible for processing naturalisation claims). While it has been noted that the Ministry of Immigration, Integration and Housing draws on identity information from the Aliens Register (which is administered by the DIS), the information registered in this database is not necessarily accurate given the lack of law and policy on statelessness determination (Ersbøll, 2013, p. 10). The fact that individuals can apply to have their nationality re-assessed, and considering that in 2012 the DIS acknowledged that 4,000 individuals from only three states may have had their nationality incorrectly registered, highlights the problem with relying on this information (CHP Post Online, 2012). The Temporary Asylum Law in 2015 In February 2015, a new Temporary Protection Status (§ 7,3) was adopted in Denmark, which was designed to accommodate Syrian refugees who had not directly faced a threat of individual persecution, but fled because of the general situation in their country of origin (Refugees DK, 2016a). Syrian refugees are particularly vulnerable to statelessness given the large stateless population in the country before the conflict, the difficulty they face in registering the birth of their children in the neighbouring states and the gender discrimination in the Syrian nationality law (ISI and NRC, 2016). The new Temporary Protection Status § 7,3 provides less rights and a shorter time period of the right of residence than is granted under § 7,1 for ‘convention refugees’, or § 7,2 to those who are eligible for ‘individual protection status’ under the Aliens Act (Government of Denmark, 2013). As Refugees DK (2016a) summarise: If granted this status (§ 7,3,) the asylum seeker obtains a 1 year residence permit and the asylum seeker does not have the right to apply for family reunification until it has been renewed and 3 years in total have passed. When the 1-year period expires, the case will be re-considered. If the asylum seeker is still in need of protection, the residence permit will be renewed for a 2-years period. [Emphasis added]. This will impact a significant number of stateless refugees, as 28% of all asylum claims in 2016 received this status (ibid). However, the withdrawal of this protection status is worrying as Article 1C of the 1951 Convention is more specific in its criteria for cessation of stateless refugees’ status, with the need for protection to be considered along with their ability to return to their country of previous habitual residence.