Table 2 Number of stateless persons with a valid residence permit, persons not identified and persons with undeclared or unknown country in the years 2007 – 2018 (as of 31 Dec; as of 30 Jun 2018) Year Number of stateless persons with a valid residence permit XXX – undeclared or unknown country Not identified Total 2007 461 27 0 488 2008 569 40 0 609 24.8% 2009 598 35 0 633 3.9% 2010 628 23 0 651 2.8% 2011 750 24 2 776 19.2% 2012 763 29 2 794 2.3% 2013 735 29 2 766 -3.5% 2014 637 32 1 670 -12.5% 2015 584 24 0 608 -9.3% 2016 561 34 0 595 -2.1% 2017 536 48 3 587 -1.3% 2018 522 39 0 561 -4.4% YoY increase/decrease Source: MoI CZ – Third-country nationals with a registered residence permit in the Czech Republic and foreign nationals from the EU plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein with a registered residence in the Czech Republic in the years 2011–2018; Foreign Police Statistics for 2007–2010. Figure 2 shows the number of stateless persons with a residence permit according to the type of residence. The year 2011 represents a turning point in terms of an increase in the number of persons with a permanent residence. This fact likely corresponds to the shift in the statistical reporting of collected data and the transfer of decisionmaking competences in relation to certain types of residence permits from the Foreign Police to the Department of Asylum and Migration Policy of the MoI. Figure 2 Stateless personsof with a valid persons residencewith permit according to the permit type of residence thethe years 2007 Classification stateless a valid residence accordinginto – 2018 (as of 31 Dec; as of 30 Jun 2018) type of residence in the years 2007 – 2018 8 00 700 600 500 614 578 538 658 723 661 523 451 449 435 423 400 421 300 200 100 0 10 2007 31 2008 20 2009 14 2010 92 2011 114 102 135 126 113 101 12 2012 Přechodný pobyt 2013 2014 Trvalý pobyt 2015 2016 2017 2018 Source: MoI CZ – Third-country nationals with a registered residence permit in the Czech Republic and foreign nationals from the EU plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein with a registered residence in the Czech Republic in the years 2011–2018; Foreign Police Statistics for 2007–2010. 26 Faces of Statelessness in the Czech Republic

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