Patrícia Jerónimo provisions, which should be the main legal basis offered by any administrative decision recognising, granting or refusing citizenship attribution, acquisition or registration. Birth registration and issuance of identity documents remain a point of concern, in spite of the successive campaigns promoted by Mozambican authorities over the years, which may in part be attributed to a deficient cooperation between the Ministry of Justice, in charge of overseeing the civil registry offices, and the Ministry of Interior, in charge of issuing identification documents (identity document and passport).92 There are furthermore reports of thousands of individuals of Mozambican origin who are stateless or at risk of statelessness in border regions and in neighbouring countries. There are, unfortunately, no official or unofficial data estimating the number of persons under these circumstances, as there are no statistical data on any citizenship-related issues, such as the number of naturalisation applications submitted and granted or the number of cases of loss. In recent years, with the rise in immigration, the Mozambican authorities have voiced concerns about fraud and corruption in the application of the citizenship regime, in particular with the issuance of false documentation to foreigners bent on circumventing immigration restrictions. That was the main purpose stated for the 2012 failed attempt at revising the Nationality Act, and was also at the centre of the decision by the National Assembly to amend the Civil Registry Code in 2018 to establish a single identification number for every citizen.93 92 As reported in Mozambican media. See, e.g., the 2012 television interview mentioned earlier, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX7PFzRODqs [28.03.2019], under the title ‘Análise: Revisão da lei de nacionalidade moçambicana’. 93 Information retrieved from news item entitled ‘PR moçambicano promulga Lei de Revisão do Código do Registo Civil’, published on 7 November 2018, available at https://www.dn.pt/lusa/interior/pr-mocambicanopromulga-lei-de-revisao-do-codigo-do-registo-civil-10145074.html [09.05.2019]. 38 RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2019/6 - © 2019 Author