Law or policy reform enabling automatic acquisition of nationality
Association (WESA) and Ferghana Valley Lawyers Without Borders provided free legal
advice to people in remote areas. The teams were fully prepared with vehicles, technical
equipment and application forms to essentially function as a ‘mobile passport desk’.31
4. OUTCOMES
Kyrgyzstan resolved a total of 13,700 cases of statelessness between 2014 and July
2019.32 The last known 50 stateless persons were granted nationality during a ceremony
on 4 July 2019. On this day, Kyrgyzstan became the first country to resolve all known
cases of statelessness on its territory.
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See UNHCR, “Preventing and reducing statelessness in the Kyrgyz Republic” (Video), published on 2 April 2019 (accessed
25 November 2019), available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E93nLfGvWHQ&feature=youtu.be
32 UNHCR Campaign update, April – June 2019, available from https://www.refworld.org/docid/5d356a927.html.
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