Table 3: Stateless persons and their children by gender,
age and country of origin in different provinces
Province
Country of
origin
Batken
Uzbekistan
Batken
Tajikistan
Batken
Kyrgyzstan
Batken
other countries
Osh
Uzbekistan
Osh
Tajikistan
Osh
Kyrgyzstan
Osh
other countries
Jalalabat
Uzbekistan
Jalalabat
Tadjikistan
Jalalabat
Kyrgyzstan
Jalalabat
other countries
Total, by age
0-4
8
0
138
0
11
0
275
0
12
0
469
0
913
5 - 11
15
0
182
0
9
1
648
0
12
0
604
0
1471
Women
12 - 17 18 - 59
5
1
38
0
15
3
380
0
9
0
226
0
677
275
58
33
0
722
37
456
2
1165
3
573
0
3324
60 and
above
0
2
0
0
0
1
82
0
23
0
136
0
244
Total
303
61
391
0
757
42
1841
2
1221
3
2008
0
6629
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The survey identified 11,655 stateless persons and interviewed 4,290 of them.
• 1,871 individuals came to the Kyrgyz Republic for various reasons - mainly for
marriage - and became stateless as a result of shortcomings in legislation and
its implementation, both in the country of origin and in the Kyrgyz Republic
(Category 1).
• 1,827 individuals arrived in the Kyrgyz Republic after the first law on Kyrgyz
citizenship came into force on 18 February 1994. They have resided in the
Kyrygz Republic for more than 5 years, possess a 1974 USSR passport and
have not applied for any (other) citizenship (Category 2).
• 1,870 individuals resided in the Kyrgyz Republic on 18 February 1994, but have
not yet exchanged their USSR passports for a Kyrgyz one (Category 3).
• 6,087 individuals are children of stateless persons (Category 4).
The survey also revealed a separate category of persons who are in danger of becoming stateless because of the current practice for determination of eligibility for passports: the children
of labour migrants. However, the parameters of this survey did not allow for determining their
number.
The legal problems that stateless persons encounter are manifold and depend on their country
of origin and the documents in their possession. However none of the interviewed persons felt
that their or their children’s right to education was being violated because of their legal status:
children of school age are accepted by local schools without any restrictions.
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