Stateless children with irregular immigration status who are not accommodated at the FRC and whose
parents did not arrive in Lithuania regularly, but who nonetheless may have been living in Lithuania for
some time, may face problems accessing public elementary education, despite that this right is guaranteed
to them under the 1954 Convention and other international human rights instruments, to which Lithuania
is a State Party.
Stateless persons generally acquire identity papers in the form of a residence permit. The right to
identification documents is not extended to persons with “unresolved” legal status during the procedure
for regularizing their status.
Obtaining a travel document in Lithuania might be relatively easy for stateless persons who have
residence permits. However, there are problems with regard to the short validity of this document and high
administrative fees. Currently, the State fee for the travel document does not correspond to the lowest scale
of charges for national passports, as is required by Article 28 of the 1954 Convention.
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