Policy Department C: Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs
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3.1.15 Persons who change their civil status due to marriage with a citizen of
another country or dissolution of a marriage with a person holding the same
citizenship (S15)............................................................................... 39
3.1.16 Persons whose spouse or registered partner loses citizenship of a country
(S16) .............................................................................................. 39
3.1.17 Children whose parents lose citizenship of a country (S17) ..................... 40
3.2 The particular issue of the “non-citizens” in Latvia and “persons of
undefined citizenship” in Estonia ........................................................ 40
3.3 Some concluding observations ............................................................ 42
4. PROTECTION OF STATELESS PERSONS IN THE MIGRATORY CONTEXT
AND STATELESSNESS DETERMINATION PROCEDURES ..................... 43
4.1 Why and how should stateless persons be protected in migratory
conext? ............................................................................................... 44
4.1.1 Right to legal residence ..................................................................... 44
4.1.2 Differences with the 1951 Refugee Convention ...................................... 45
4.2 Role of statelessness determination procedures ................................. 45
4.3 Design of statelessness determination procedures ............................. 46
4.4 Existing practices in EU Member States with regard to status
determination and protection of stateless persons ............................. 48
4.4.1 Hungary .......................................................................................... 48
4.4.2 The UK ............................................................................................ 49
4.4.3 The Netherlands ............................................................................... 51
4.5 Is a statelessness determination procedure a ‘pull factor’? ................ 51
4.6 Concluding observations ..................................................................... 53
5. POSSIBLE ROLE OF EUROPEAN UNION IN ADDRESSING
STATELESSNESS............................................................................... 54
5.1 Introductory remarks on the legal basis for EU measures................... 54
5.2 A possible role for the CJEU via enforcing European citizenship .......... 55
5.2.1 Deprivation of nationality with statelessness as consequence is only allowed
after the application of a proportionality test ......................................... 55
5.2.2 A child acquired the nationality of a EU Member State ex lege, but fails to
benefit from that nationality due to an administrative hurdle ................... 55
5.2.3 A stateless person is entitled to be registered as a national after having
fulfilled certain requirements .............................................................. 55
5.3 The role and possible contributions of the European Union as regards
the avoidance and reduction of statelessness..................................... 56
5.3.1 A common legal framework for the determination of statelessness in the EU
...................................................................................................... 56
5.3.2 The possible promotion of facilitated naturalisation of stateless persons living
on the territory of the EU ................................................................... 56
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