Nationality Division of the Ministry of Immigration and Integration (previously under the Ministry of Justice) has shared their impression that many applicants were informed about the entitlement to nationality due to birth in Denmark from other applicants, and that the information was passed by word-of-mouth.99 Under the ministerial report of 2011 on the “statelessness case,” stateless children born in Denmark made up a substantial number of the applicants who had been listed in naturalization bills in 2009 due to their fulfilment of the normal requirements for naturalization. Stateless children born in Denmark made up between 9 and 16 percent of all applicants listed in the two naturalization bills in 2009 (121 and 254 children respectively). Likewise, in the first half of 2010, before the re-establishment of a naturalization practice in accordance with the Conventions, stateless children born in Denmark made up 10 percent of all listed applicants (89 stateless children out of 913 applicants).100 Figure 19 illustrates the number and legal grounds on which stateless persons have been listed in naturalization bills since October 2010 to 2016.101 Figure 19: Stateless persons listed in Naturalization Bills (2010-2016) Oct 2010 Apr 2011 Nov 2011 Apr 2012 Oct 2012 Apr. 2013 Oct. 2013 Apr. 2014 Oct. 2014 2015 2016 Total Convention on the Rights of the Child 121 48 79 37 19 20 11 27 12 41 77 492 (38%) Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 35 11 36 13 7 1 2 1 0 1 0 107 (8%) Standard requirements 21 20 22 22 21 17 27 29 73 346 103 701 (54%) Total per bill 177 79 137 72 47 38 40 57 85 388 180 1,300 Source: Naturalization Bills submitted to the Danish Parliament October 2010 – October 2014 (L38102, L192103, L11104, L163105, L42106, L211107, L53108, L179109and L45110). The figure indicates that 38 percent of stateless persons included in Danish naturalization bills since October 2010 have been listed based on the CRC (492 persons). A relatively smaller part of stateless persons (8 percent) have been listed on the basis of the 1961 Convention (107 persons), while a bit over half (54 percent) have obtained Danish nationality by fulfilling the standard requirements applicable to stateless immigrants applying for naturalization in Denmark (701 persons). In total, 1300 stateless persons have been listed on a naturalization bill from October 2010 to October 2016, of which 599 persons have been listed based on one of these two Conventions. 99 The theory was explained during an interview on 29 August 2012 with the Nationality Division. 100 See the report, Ministry of Integration, ‘Redegørelse til statsministeren om Integrationsministeriets behandling af ansøgninger om indfødsret fra statsløse personer født i Danmark’, 7 March 2011, available at: https://bit.ly/2OYOeWy 101 In October 2010, the first naturalization bill was submitted to the Danish Parliament comprising a number of stateless applicants who did not fulfil the general naturalization requirements. 102 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20101/lovforslag/l38/index.htm. 103 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20101/lovforslag/L192/index.htm. 104 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20111/lovforslag/L11/index.htm. 105 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20111/lovforslag/L63/index.htm. 106 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20121/lovforslag/l42/index.htm. 107 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20121/lovforslag/l211/index.htm. 108 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20131/lovforslag/l53/index.htm. 109 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20131/lovforslag/l179/index.htm. 110 http://www.ft.dk/samling/20141/lovforslag/l45/index.htm. UNHCR Representation for the Nordic and Baltic Countries 35