5. Refugee Status Determination Process: Outcome If an applicant receives refugee status, he or she is entitled to all the rights and obligations of Hungarian citizens.725 However, a refugee may not vote in elections except those for “local municipality representatives and mayors, local referenda, and public initiative,” and may not take any job or hold any public office that is reserved exclusively for Hungarian nationals. 726 Persons granted refugee status are entitled to social benefits, health care services and education on the same basis as Hungarian citizens, as well as extra benefits and support specific to refugees. The rules on integration allowances changed as of January 2014; the allocation of such benefits depends on the potential beneficiary’s income and assets.727 Refugees are also entitled to an identity card and a travel document.728 If an application for refugee status is denied, the asylum seeker may request a review of the decision.729 A request for review must be submitted within eight days of the contested decision.730 The local court which has jurisdiction will hear the claim and make a decision within sixty days.731 Rejected asylum applicants who have entered the country illegally and who fail to leave may be deported. There is little information available regarding Hungary’s deportation procedures. However, research suggests that, at least prior to 2005, no Palestinians had been deported from Hungary to the Gaza Strip or the West Bank.732 6. Protection under the Statelessness Conventions Hungary is a party to both the 1954 Stateless Persons and 1961 Statelessness Conventions.733 Hungary is one of the few countries in the world with a formalized and regulated statelessness determination procedure, “including elaborate rules on evidentiary assessment.”734 725 State of Hungary, “2007. Évi LXXX. Törvény - a Menedékjogról [Hungary’s Asylum Act of 2007] (last Amended in 2014),” para. 10(1). 726 Ibid. 727 Office of Immigration and Nationality, “Subsidies for Refugees/beneficiraies of Subsidiary Protection,” February 10, 2014, http://www.bmbah.hu/jomla/index.php?option=com_k2&view=i tem&layout=item&id=425&Itemid=732&lang=en. 728 State of Hungary, “2007. Évi LXXX. Törvény - a Menedékjogról [Hungary’s Asylum Act of 2007] (last Amended in 2014),” para. 10(3). 729 Ibid., para. 68. 730 Ibid. 731 Ibid. 732 BADIL, Closing Protection Gaps: A Handbook on Protection of Palestinian Refugees in States Signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention, 190. 733 UNTC, “Status of Treaties: Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons;” UNTC, “Status of Treaties: Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.” 734 Gyulai, “Statelessness in the EU Framework for International Protection,” 292, citing Act II of 2007 on the Admission and Right of Residence of Third-Country Nationals (2007. evi II.torveny a harmadik orszagbeli allampolgarok beutazasarol es tartozkodasarol ), Chapter VIII; Government Decree 114/2007. (V. 24.) on the execution of Act II of 2007 on the Admission and Right of Residence of Third-Country Nationals (170/2001. (IX. 26.) Korm. rendelet a kulfoldiek beutazasarol es tartozkodasarol szolo 2001. evi XXXIX. torveny vegrehajtasarol), Chapter VIII. Survey of Protection at the National Level 149