REFUGEES FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
UNHCR, APRIL 2023
Congolese refugees in Rwanda................................................................................................................................................ 40
South Sudanese and Congolese refugees in Uganda........................................................................................................... 41
ANNEX 2: TERMINOLOGY ..........................................................................................................................42
A SYLUM-SEEKER................................................................................................................................................................................... 42
CESSATION OF REFUGEE STATUS............................................................................................................................................................ 42
CITIZENSHIP /NATIONALITY ................................................................................................................................................................... 42
CIVIL REGISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................................. 42
DURABLE SOLUTIONS............................................................................................................................................................................ 43
L OCAL INTEGRATION............................................................................................................................................................................. 43
L ONG-TERM REFUGEE........................................................................................................................................................................... 43
PROTRACTED REFUGEE SITUATIONS....................................................................................................................................................... 43
REFUGEE.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 44
STATELESS PERSON............................................................................................................................................................................... 44
UNDETERMINED NATIONALITY .............................................................................................................................................................. 45
ANNEX 3: INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ON PROOF OF LEGAL IDENTITY AND ACCESS TO NATIONALITY ................46
RECOGNITION OF REFUGEE (OR STATELESS PERSON) STATUS AND ISSUE OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTS............................................................ 46
BIRTH REGISTRATION AND CIVIL REGISTRATION GENERALLY..................................................................................................................... 47
DOCUMENTATION OF NATIONALITY....................................................................................................................................................... 50
PERMANENT RESIDENCE AND OTHER FORMS OF LONG -TERM IMMIGRATION STATUS................................................................................ 50
A CQUISITION OF NATIONALITY BY REFUGEES .......................................................................................................................................... 51
Facilitated naturalisation ......................................................................................................................................................... 51
Children of refugees bo rn in the territory of th e country of asylum ................................................................................. 52
Dual nationality .......................................................................................................................................................................... 53
THE SITUATION OF FORMER REFUGEES................................................................................................................................................... 54
A CCESSION TO INTERNATIONAL TREATIES............................................................................................................................................... 56
UN statelessness conventions.................................................................................................................................................. 56
UN conventions providing for the right to a nationality ..................................................................................................... 56
AU treaties .................................................................................................................................................................................. 56
ANNEX 4: NATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORKS .................................................................................................57
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)............................................................................................................................................ 57
International instruments......................................................................................................................................................... 57
Pledges......................................................................................................................................................................................... 57
Refugee status and identity documents ................................................................................................................................. 58
Access to civil registration ........................................................................................................................................................ 58
Permanent residence or o ther long-term immigration status ........................................................................................... 59
Access to Congolese nationality .............................................................................................................................................. 60
Access to Rwandan nationality................................................................................................................................................ 64
RWANDA ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 65
International instruments......................................................................................................................................................... 65
Pledges......................................................................................................................................................................................... 65
Refugee status and identity documents ................................................................................................................................. 66
Permanent residence or o ther long-term immigration status ........................................................................................... 66
Civil registration ......................................................................................................................................................................... 67
Access to Rwandan nationality................................................................................................................................................ 68
Access to Congolese nationality .............................................................................................................................................. 72
UGANDA.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 74
International instruments......................................................................................................................................................... 74
Pledges......................................................................................................................................................................................... 74
Refugee status and identity documents ................................................................................................................................. 74
Civil registration ......................................................................................................................................................................... 75
Permanent residence or o ther long-term immigration status ........................................................................................... 76
Access to Ugandan citizenship ................................................................................................................................................. 76
Access to the nationality of South Sudan or DRC ................................................................................................................. 79
TABLES ON COMPARATIVE NATIONALITY LAWS....................................................................................................................................... 81