310 Agata Szwed, Statelessness in the Context of the Migration Crisis in Europe: A Growing... not contain any statelessness-specific provision, so it can be concluded that at present the EU does not have an explicit entitlement to adopt legislation or common measures on statelessness as a specific issue.27 Twenty-four Member States are States Parties to the CRSSP and 19 Member States are States Parties to the CSP − so there is still a problem to achieve uniformity within procedures determining the statelessness status, especially including specific administrative determination procedures for stateless persons. Most Member States still lack such procedures. What is more, national laws often do not provide a direct link between the determination of statelessness and the issuing of specific residence permits, which generates a huge problem for legal stay in the country of residence.28 4 Right to nationality in the nationality laws of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan To understand why statelessness is a growing problem for the European and international community, it is important to understand the nationality laws of the countries of origin of the largest influx of migrants coming to Europe since 2015. Although most of these people can prove their identity, there is still an essential number of those for whom this is difficult. In the era of refugee crisis, the largest numbers of applications for international protection in the EU have been made by citizens of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq − a total of over a million people.29 As people of these nationalities represent the overwhelming majority of migrants, in the context of the right to citizenship, the examination of national law in this paper will focus exclusively on these three national legal systems. The Syrian nationality law regulates the right to nationality through the 1969 Legislative Decree 276.30 The situations where a person is treated as a Syrian ipso facto are given in Article 3 of this decree: fi rst of all, Syrian national law relies on paternal ius sanguinis (only a Syrian man has the right to automatically pass on his nationality to children); secondly, in the case of an unknown father (or both parents), Syrian citizenship can be established only for those children who were born inside the country. The following articles deal with aspects of naturalisation 27 Gabor Gyulai, ‘Statelessness in the EU Framework for International Protection’ (2012) 14 European Journal of Migration and Law 284. 28 European Commission, ‘European Migration Network Inform − Statelessness in the EU’ (2016) 2-3 available at <https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/00_inform_statelessness_final_en.pdf> accessed 22 May 2020. 29 European Parliament, ‘Migration and Asylum’ available at <www.europarl.europa.eu/ thinktank/infographics/migration/public/index.html?page=intro> accessed 22 May 2020. 30 Legislative Decree 276 − Nationality Law, 24 November 1969 (Syrian Nationality Law) available at <www.refworld.org/docid/4d81e7b12.html> accessed 22 May 2020.