• What rights are granted to individuals during SDPs? Can individuals during the SDP have access to a (temporary) residency permit? Are they entitled to other socio-economic rights (access to healthcare, education, labour market, etc.)? • How is the right of not being detained or expelled during the procedure guaranteed? Access to residency and related rights for recognised stateless persons, including access to healthcare and socio-economic rights, such as access to work • Do recognised stateless individuals have access to residence permit and if yes, under which conditions? What is the duration of validity of the permit ? Is it renewable? Are they entitled to any support to help them apply for residence permit? Based on your practical experience, what other support should be made available? • What document (travel or identity) are provided to recognised stateless individuals? • Do stateless individuals have access to healthcare? What social aid are provided? Are there facilities on access to health information, appointments, and registration with healthcare? If yes, are they inclusive of and targeted to stateless people taking account their location, language and communication preferences? What is the role of NGOs and community organisations to ensure stateless people’s access to information? • Do recognized stateless persons have access to facilitated naturalization? If not, and given the fact that the 1954 Convention requires States to facilitate the naturalization of stateless persons as far as possible, what are the key impediments for the State to provide for facilitated naturalization? • Where States provide for facilitated naturalization, what are the key barriers to naturalization (e.g., high fees, long residence requirements, inflexible documentation requirements) and how can these be overcome? 2

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