seekers and refugees must be respected regardless of the form or location of the statelessness determination procedure.43 67. Resource considerations, both financial and human, will be significant in the planning of statelessness determination procedures. Countries with statelessness determination procedures have experienced low numbers of applicants. The costs involved can be balanced against savings made from freeing up other administrative mechanisms to which stateless persons may otherwise resort, such as requests for other forms of immigration status. (2) Access to procedures 68. For procedures to be fair and efficient, access to them must be ensured. Dissemination of information, including through targeted information campaigns where appropriate and counselling on the procedures, facilitates access to the mechanism for stateless persons. Given that individuals are sometimes unaware of statelessness determination procedures or hesitant to apply for statelessness status, procedures can usefully contain safeguards permitting State authorities to initiate a procedure. 69. Everyone in a State’s territory must have access to statelessness determination procedures. There is no basis in the Convention for requiring that applicants for statelessness determination be lawfully within a State. Such a requirement is particularly inequitable given that lack of nationality denies many stateless persons the very documentation that is necessary to enter or reside in any State lawfully. 70. There is also no basis in the Convention to set time-limits for individuals to claim statelessness status. Such deadlines may arbitrarily exclude individuals from receiving 1954 Convention protection. (3) Procedural guarantees 28 71. Statelessness determination procedures should be formalized in law. Establishing procedures through legislation ensures fairness, transparency and clarity. Procedural guarantees are fundamental elements of statelessness determination procedures. The due process guarantees that are to be integrated into administrative law procedures, including refugee status determination procedures, are necessary in this context. States are encouraged, therefore, to incorporate the following safeguards: 43 For further details on coordinating refugee and statelessness determination procedures, please see paragraphs 78-82.