DESK REVIEW ON POPULATIONS AT RISK OF STATELESSNESS
Annexes
A. Data on Undocumented Children (2018 –
November 2020)248
Number of Children by Immigration Status from January to December 2018
Documented
Undocumented
Male
Female
Sub-total
Male
Female
Sub-total
Grand
Total
Qatar
-
1
1
4
1
5
6
Jeddah, KSA
-
-
-
7
8
15
15
Riyadh, KSA
1
1
2
1
23
24
26
Duba, UAE
-
5
5
58
64
122
127
Hong Kong
6
26
32
-
1
1
33
Kuwait
-
-
-
350
515
865
865
Malaysia
-
-
-
1,574
1,589
3,163
3,163
Other countries
-
-
-
8
4
12
12
Total
7
33
40
2,002
2,205
4,207
4,247
Countries
Number of Children by Immigration Status from January to December 2019
Documented
Undocumented
Male
Female
Sub-total
Male
Female
Sub-total
Grand
Total
Qatar
-
1
1
1
-
1
2
Jeddah, KSA
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Riyadh, KSA
1
-
1
32
47
79
80
Duba, UAE
1
1
2
58
127
185
187
Hong Kong
210
254
464
2
1
3
467
19
28
47
291
287
578
625
Malaysia
-
-
-
1,519
1,683
3,202
3,202
Other countries
-
-
-
11
15
26
26
231
284
515
1,914
2,160
4,074
4,589
Countries
Kuwait
Total
These figures are from foreign Posts of Malaysia, Hong Kong, Riyadh, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai, and
Kuwait where the DSWD Social Welfare Attaches have been deployed. Undocumented children have been identified by DSWD
as those “born out of non-marital relationships and victims of trafficking where their births are simulated or in other individual’s
custody. There are also abandoned, neglected, sexually or physically abused children whose parents are either in jail or have
problems on their immigration status which results to registration difficulties.” To address this, the Social Welfare Attaches have
“continuously provided assistance to parents of undocumented by obtaining their Report of Birth before their repatriation.”
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