Breaking the Presumption
Turkey
Law No 6458 ‘Law
on Foreigners and
International
Protection’
2013
Bulgaria
Law on Foreigners
in the Republic of
Bulgaria
1998
amdt in
2016,
2019
Montenegro
Law 01-205/2 ‘Law
of Foreigners’
2018
Ukraine
1.Law on Ukrainian
Citizenship
2001
2. Law of Ukraine
on the Legal Status
of Foreigners and
Stateless Persons
1994
amdt in
2011,
2020
Acquisition of the
Citizenship by the
Stateless Person
and the Person with
Refugee Status 125
Implementing
Regulation on the
Law on Foreigners
and International
Protection
Regulations for the
Implementation of
the Law on
Foreigners in the
Republic of
Bulgaria 127
Rulebook on the
Procedure Initiated
upon Request for
Statelessness
Determination 128
Law of Ukraine on
the Legal Status of
Foreigners and
Stateless
Persons 129
2016
Yes 126
2017
No
2018
No
2020
Yes 130
Asia
Country
Philippines
Organic Law that
Makes Reference
to Statelessness
Commonwealth Act
No 613 ‘The
Philippine
SDP: Law/
Executive Branch
Decree, Resolution
or Application
Rules
Department
Circular No 058
‘Establishing the
Year
1940
Year
2012
SDP
Express
Reference
to Civil
Registry
No
125 (Kosovo). These instructions superseded and replaced the Administrative Instruction No
126
127
128
129
130
05/2015 for the Procedure and Criteria of Determining the Status of the Stateless Person, the
Manner of Acquisition of the Citizenship by the Stateless Person and the Person with Refugee
Status (2015) (Kosovo).
Turkish Implementing Regulation (n 91) art 49(3).
(2000) Prom SG 43 (Bulgaria). Adopted in 2011 by the Council of Ministers, Executive
Branch. The first time SDPs were introduced in Bulgaria was through the amendment of these
rules in 2017: Council of Ministers Decree No 122 of 23 June 2017 to Amend and Supplement
the Regulations for Application of the Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria Act, Prom SG
51, [63](a). The latest modification of these rules was in 2019: Council of Ministers Decree
No 88 of 17 April 2019 to Amend and Supplement Regulations for Application of the
Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria Act, Prom SG No 34.
(2018) 72 Official Gazette of Montenegro (Montenegro).
As amended by Ukraine 2020 Statelessness Amendment (n 93). The SDP was introduced with
the modification of the law in 2020.
ibid art 61(2), 61(3).
91