3.
The Contracting States shall give sympathetic consideration to renewing or extending the
validity of travel documents or issuing new documents to stateless persons no longer lawfully
resident in their territory who are unable to obtain a travel document from the country of their
lawful residence.
Paragraph 7
The Contracting States shall recognize the validity of the documents issued in accordance with
the provisions of article 28 of this Convention.
Paragraph 8
The competent authorities of the country to which the stateless person desires to proceed shall, if
they are prepared to admit him and if a visa is required, affix a visa on the document of which he
is the holder.
Paragraph 9
1.
The Contracting States undertake to issue transit visas to stateless persons who have
obtained visas for a territory of final destination.
2.
The issue of such visas may be refused on grounds which would justify refusal of a visa
to any alien.
Paragraph 10
The fees for the issue of exit, entry or transit visas shall not exceed the lowest scale of charges
for visas on foreign passports.
Paragraph 11
When a stateless person has lawfully taken up residence in the territory of another Contracting
State, the responsibility for the issue of a new document, under the terms and conditions of article
28 shall be that of the competent authority of that territory, to which the stateless person shall be
entitled to apply.
Paragraph 12
The authority issuing a new document shall withdraw the old document and shall return it to the
country of issue if it is stated in the document that it should be so returned; otherwise it shall
withdraw and cancel the document.
Paragraph 13
1.
A travel document issued in accordance with article 28 of this Convention shall, unless it
contains a statement to the contrary, entitle the holder to re-enter the territory of the issuing State
at any time during the period of its validity. In any case the period during which the holder may
return to the country issuing the document shall not be less than three months except when the
country to which the stateless person proposes to travel does not insist on the travel document
according the right of re-entry.
2.
Subject to the provisions of the preceding subparagraph, a Contracting State may require
the holder of the document to comply with such formalities as may be prescribed in regard to exit
from or return to its territory.