III. Ensure that policies and practices relating to birth registration take into account UNHCR guidelines and good practice,34 to remove all practical barriers to birth registration with a particular focus on minority groups including Romani communities, so that all children born in Moldova are registered immediately regardless of their parents’ documentation status. IV. Amend the law to further facilitate the naturalisation of stateless persons, by reducing the residence requirement and waiving the requirement to pay fees, have a minimum income and pass language tests for stateless applicants. V. Take concrete steps to improve the recording of statelessness, namely by harmonising quantitative data on stateless persons, and publish annual reliable, transparent and comparable statistics on statelessness determination, immigration detention and removal procedures. VI. Take concrete steps to protect undocumented stateless people from arbitrary immigration detention (‘public custody’), including considering statelessness as a juridically relevant fact in return and detention decisions and ensuring that identification of statelessness is included in individual vulnerability assessments. VII. Establish alternatives to immigration detention in law and in practice to protect against arbitrary detention in all circumstances and apply the international norm of detention only ever being used as a last resort after all possible alternatives have been examined in each individual case. VIII. Ensure that the Supreme Court of Justice Advisory Opinion no. 102 on the Term of Detention of Foreigners is implemented in practice to ensure judicial control over the necessity for the continuation of immigration detention in each individual case. 34 1961 Convention; UNHCR, Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4: Ensuring Every Child's Right to Acquire a Nationality through Articles 1-4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 21 December 2012, HCR/GS/12/04, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/50d460c72.html. 8