Stateless persons with a residence permit 60. Approximately 35 per cent of registered stateless persons in the Netherlands, or 761 individuals, have a residence permit.82 Almost 16 per cent of this group received a permit on asylum grounds, meaning that in all probability these individuals are stateless refugees. This means that the remaining 84 per cent of all persons registered as stateless have a regular residence permit.83 61. Most holders of a regular residence permit were born in the Netherlands, but had their origins in Somalia. However, roughly 40 per cent of regular permit holders were not born in the Netherlands. The data indicates (as visualized in figure 4)84 that in this instance persons of – presumably – Palestinian background have been granted residency most often and are most commonly from the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Lebanon and Syria. Also, stateless Kurds born in Syria may be included. Citizens from the former Soviet Union make up another group that has been accorded regular residence permits relatively often. Fig. 4 - Stateless people in NL with regular residence permits - country of birth (born in NL excluded, N>10) 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Source: CBS, situation 1 January 2010. “N > 10” indicates that data is only included where it concerns at least 10 individuals. 82 CBS, data not available on Statline but on file with UNHCR. 83  o be precise, the CBS data list four persons (or 0.5 per cent) as in possession of either an asylum T or a regular residence permit. For clarity’s sake, this category has been left out. 84  he total number of stateless persons in the Netherlands, excluding those of Dutch birth, holding T a regular residence permit, split up by their fathers’ country of birth, includes another 82 persons divided over 31 paternal nationalities. CBS data not available on Statline but on file with UNHCR. in the Netherlands 27