EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY FOR ASYLUM
4.2.1. Ex lege nationality not (yet) formally recognised ...................................... 36
4.2.2. Nationality not currently held .......................................................................... 37
4.3. Nationality obtained in error or bad faith ............................................................................ 37
4.4. Renunciation of nationality .................................................................................................... 38
4.5. Enjoyment of the rights attached to nationality ............................................................... 39
5.
Evidence to determine nationality, statelessness and the country of origin ..............41
5.1. Statements by the applicant ................................................................................................... 43
5.2. Documentary evidence........................................................................................................... 46
5.3. Country of origin information ................................................................................................ 52
5.4. Other evidence ......................................................................................................................... 54
6.
Protection and nationality (or lack thereof)................................................................... 56
6.1. National protection ................................................................................................................... 57
6.2. National protection in the case of multiple nationality ................................................... 58
6.3. Nationality not currently held ................................................................................................ 60
6.4. Stateless applicants: return or protection........................................................................... 61
6.4.1. Inability or unwillingness to return ................................................................. 61
6.4.2. Multiple countries of former habitual residence........................................ 62
6.5. Nationality and cessation of international protection ..................................................... 64
6.6. Exclusion based on the holding of rights and obligations attached to the
possession of a nationality by an applicant who has taken up residence ........................ 64
7.
Nationality and acts of persecution or serious harm ................................................... 66
7.1. Deprivation, denial or forced attribution of nationality as a form of persecution or
serious harm....................................................................................................................................... 66
7.1.1. Deprivation of nationality as a form of persecution or serious harm... 68
7.1.2. Denial of nationality as a form of persecution or serious harm ............. 73
7.1.3. Forced attribution of nationality as a form of persecution or serious
harm 73
7.2. Absence of recognition of an ex lege nationality as a form of persecution or
serious harm........................................................................................................................................ 74
8.
Nationality as a reason for persecution ......................................................................... 76
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