Acquisition of nationality through naturalization Specific provisions to facilitate the naturalization of the stateless Cambodian refugees are contained in Article 22 of the 2008 law. It provides that “stateless persons who do not have adequate personal identification papers but have been stably residing in the Vietnamese territory for 20 years or more by the effective date of this Law [1 July 2009] and obey Vietnam’s Constitution and laws will be permitted for naturalization in Vietnam under the order, procedures and dossiers specified by the Government.” Promoting the 2008 Nationality Law provisions to restore nationality and reduce statelessness After the 2008 Nationality Law entered into force, UNHCR partnered with MOLISA to devise projects to implement the new nationality restoration provisions to reduce statelessness among Vietnamese women who had lost their nationality upon marriage to foreigners and had returned to Viet Nam without having acquired another nationality. With funding from the European Union, MOLISA and UNHCR conducted surveys in various cities in Viet Nam to obtain a better understanding of how statelessness arises from mixed marriages between Vietnamese and foreigners. A series of awareness campaigns was organized with local authorities as well as the affected communities to publicize the new procedure in Article 23 for restoration of Vietnamese nationality. MOLISA’s actions were coordinated with organizations at the local level, such as the women’s, youth and labor unions. This project included some vocational training and counselling to bolster the reintegration of women and children who had returned to Viet Nam from abroad. In addition, the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 402/QD-TTg on the Implementation Plan of the United Nations’ Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, promulgated in March 2020, has assigned duties to the Ministry of Justice to review and propose concrete solutions to ensure the right to nationality and the right to birth registration for stateless and persons-at-risk of statelessness. U N H C R > G P P A C T I O N 1 : R E S O LV I N G E X I S T I N G M A J O R S I T U AT I O N S O F S TAT E L E S S N E S S 63