permission takes the form of a permanent residence permit, and in Kazakhstan, a Stateless Person’s ID certificate.237 Dependents are recorded in the Stateless person’s ID certificate in Kazakhstan, and in their permanent residence permit in the other four States, and enjoy the same residence rights. Dependents include children up to the age of 16 years in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and up to the age of 18 in Kyrgyzstan.238 Stateless persons, granted permission for permanent residence, must periodically renew it in all five States.239 Those who do not, or who otherwise violate their residence rules, may have their permission to stay shortened. It is the Ministry of Internal Affairs in each State that takes the decision to shorten a stay.240 Although Uzbekistan makes no financial solvency requirements of stateless persons who apply for permanent residence on State territory, it may shorten the stay of a foreigner it rules to have inadequate funds.241 All five States provide for the possibility of ‘withdrawing’ or ‘revoking’ the permanent residence rights of stateless persons and other foreigners on State territory.242 Each State withdraws a stateless person’s permission for permanent residence when the grounds for its acquisition no longer apply – for example, when the person acquires the nationality of the State, or emigrates permanently to another State. Turkmenistan may also withdraw the permanent residence permit of a stateless person who has stayed outside State Territory continuously for six months, for reasons the authorities deem invalid.243 Kazakhstan automatically removes stateless persons from its register of permanent residents Citizens’(The agency was subsequently renamed The State Migration Service of Turkmenistan); Article 1(3), 2000 Rules No 136 ‘On the Entry and Stay of Foreigners in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and also their Exit from the Republic of Kazakhstan’. 237 Article 4(21), 2000 Rules No 136 ‘On the Entry and Stay of Foreigners in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and also their Exit from the Republic of Kazakhstan’. 238 Article 26, 1999 Law No 218 ‘On the Rules of Stay for Foreigners and Stateless Persons’ in Tajikistan, as amended in 2008; Article 3,Enclosure No 2, 1999 Regulations UP-2240 ‘On Residence Permit in the Republic of Uzbekistan Intended for a Foreign Citizen, Residence Permit in the Republic of Uzbekistan and a Certificate Intended for a Stateless Person’; Article 3, 2008 Regulation No 626 ‘On the Procedure for Issuing Residence Permits in Kyrgyzstan’; Article 7, 2000 Decree No 1063 ‘On Rule for Documenting and Registering the Population of Kazakhstan’; Article 14.4, 2005 Migration Law of Turkmenistan, as amended in 2011. 239 Stateless persons of 45 and over are entitled to permanent residence of unlimited duration in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and those of 60 and over in Uzbekistan. Permission is renewable after 10 years in Kazakhstan and every five years in the other three States. Residence permits that have been renewed five times in Uzbekistan must be replaced. In Turkmenistan, periodic renewal is required as stipulated in the 2005 Law on Migration (as amended in 2008), Article 14², though the time period is not given in the Law; Article 7, 2000 Decree No 1063 ‘On Rule for Documenting and Registering the Population of Kazakhstan’; Article 29, 1999 Law No 218 ‘On the Rules of Stay for Foreigners and Stateless Persons’ in Tajikistan, as amended in 2008; Article 30, 2008 Regulation No 626 ‘On the Procedure for Issuing Residence Permits in Kyrgyzstan’; Article 17, Enclosure No 2, 1999 Regulations UP-2240 ‘On Residence Permit in the Republic of Uzbekistan Intended for a Foreign Citizen, Residence Permit in the Republic of Uzbekistan and a Certificate Intended for a Stateless Person’. 240 In Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and State Intelligence Service jointly decide on shortening the stay of a foreigner and give their reasons in writing in the case materials. Article 35, 2000 Rules No 136 ‘On the Entry and Stay of Foreigners in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and also their Exit from the Republic of Kazakhstan’ and Article 27, 1995 Law No 2337 ‘On the Legal Status of Foreigners’ in Kazakhstan; Article 18, 2000 Law No 61 ‘On External Migration’ of Kyrgyzstan and Article 41, 2008 Regulation No 626 ‘On the Procedure for Issuing Residence Permits in Kyrgyzstan’; Article 30, 1997 Law No 500 ‘On the Legal Status of Foreigners’ in Tajikistan, as amended in 2009 and Article 31, 1999 Law No 218 ‘On the Rules of Stay for Foreigners and Stateless Persons’ in Tajikistan, as amended in 2008. 241 Article 39, Supplement No 2, 1996 Resolution of Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan No 408 ‘On Rules of Residence for Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons in the Republic of Uzbekistan’. 242 Article 31, 1999 Law No 218 ‘On the Rules of Stay for Foreigners and Stateless Persons’ in Tajikistan, as amended in 2008; Article 51, 2008 Regulation No 626 ‘On the Procedure for Issuing Residence Permits in Kyrgyzstan’ and Articles 17 and 19, 2000 Law No 61 ‘On External Migration’ of Kyrgyzstan; Article 16, 2005 Migration Law of Turkmenistan, as amended in 2011 and Articles 36-39, 2003 Regulation No 6135 ‘On Entry and Exit of Foreigners’ in Turkmenistan; Chapter IV, Supplement No 2, 1996 Resolution of Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan No 408, ‘On Rules of Residence of Foreigners and Stateless Persons in Uzbekistan’; Article 27, 1995 Law No 2337 ‘On the Legal Status of Foreigners’ in Kazakhstan. 243 Article 16(11), 2005 Law on Migration in Turkmenistan, as amended in 2008. ~ 37 ~