The Danish-Palestinian Friendship Association explained that even after the “statelessness case,” some of the stateless persons who were entitled to Danish nationality were met with a refusal from the police who might not have been sufficiently informed about the new practice on naturalization of Danish stateless persons who do not fulfil the general requirements. The association had established an organization, The Nationality Organization (in Danish ‘Statsborgerforeningen’) for stateless persons born in Denmark. The organization advised stateless persons about their entitlement to Danish nationality. Seventeen stateless persons took legal action against the Danish state and the then Ministers for Integration concerning damages for pain and suffering due to the wrongful refusals of their applications for Danish nationality up to 2010.128 On 21 December 2016, the Eastern High Court ruled that the ministry should pay compensation for the injury to seven of the applicants with a sum of 20,000 DKK (about 2,667 €) to each. The seven applicants had acquired Danish nationality with a significant delay due to the wrongful treatment of their cases, which was not the case for the rest of the plaintiffs.129 A stateless girl known to the Documentation and Advisory Centre on Racial Discrimination (DRC) has described the problems she faced when her grandparents became ill, and she was not able to visit them together with her sisters and brothers, who had acquired Danish nationality by entitlement as they were born in Denmark. The girl herself was born in Sweden on a one-day visit when her pregnant mother unexpectedly gave birth prematurely, and the then Danish Ministry of Justice/the Minister of Justice had not recommended that she acquired Danish nationality by entitlement, as she was not born in Denmark.130 Eventually, in April 2013, the Parliamentary Naturalization Committee granted the16-year-old girl at that time Danish nationality.131 2.3.4 Hopes and expectations for the future Several organizations have pointed out that stateless persons need a nationality. The Danish Refugee Council noted the importance of granting every member of a stateless family Danish nationality to ensure family unity. Acquisition of nationality promotes security and inclusion and allows for family trips abroad. The chairperson of the Danish-Bhutanese culture organization found it important to be correctly registered as stateless. He said that anyone who had experienced being stateless truly would know how important the acquisition of a nationality is. He hoped to be able to acquire Danish nationality but was worried, having heard that the requirements were very rigorous. To his knowledge, more than 50 percent of the Bhutanese refugees were not able to pass the Danish language test level 2, which was required in 2012 in order to obtain a permanent residence permit.132 Therefore, following the October 2015 changes of the language requirement for acquisition of Danish nationality, demanding as a rule successful Danish language test level 3,133 the language requirement may be a barrier for most Bhutanese refugees to acquire Danish nationality. According to the Danish-Bhutanese culture organization, it is a particular problem that many elderly pensioners cannot take Danish language classes. They cannot walk long distances to language schools in winter periods or they are not offered language education in practice. Moreover, they must fulfil the general, high language requirements for naturalization. The chairman of the organization finds it difficult to understand that Denmark subjects resettled uneducated refugees to such high requirements as a precondition for granting them a secure 40 128 See the newspaper article ‘Statsløse trækker Bertel Haarder i retten’ in Politiken, 8 July 2011, available at: https://bit.ly/30MAtQ8. 129 See the judgment at: https://bit.ly/3jMUija: the ministry had offered 10,000 DKK in compensation and this amount was doubled by the High Court. 130 For the story of the stateless girl in question, see a collection of articles in the newspaper Information, ‘Sagen om de statsløse’, available at: http://www.information.dk/statsl%C3%B8se. 131 See the newspaper article ‘Folketinget underkender Morten Bødskov i sag om statsløs pige’ in Information, April 2013, available at: http://www.information.dk/458535. 132 Danish language test level 2 corresponds to B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF or CEFR), accessible her https://www.examenglish.com/CEFR/cefr.php. 133 Danish language test level 3 corresponds to B2 of the CEF. Mapping Statelessness in Denmark