Stateless children with irregular immigration status who are not accommodated at the FRC and whose parents did not arrive in Lithuania regularly, but who nonetheless may have been living in Lithuania for some time, may face problems accessing public elementary education, despite that this right is guaranteed to them under the 1954 Convention and other international human rights instruments, to which Lithuania is a State Party. Stateless persons generally acquire identity papers in the form of a residence permit. The right to identification documents is not extended to persons with “unresolved” legal status during the procedure for regularizing their status. Obtaining a travel document in Lithuania might be relatively easy for stateless persons who have residence permits. However, there are problems with regard to the short validity of this document and high administrative fees. Currently, the State fee for the travel document does not correspond to the lowest scale of charges for national passports, as is required by Article 28 of the 1954 Convention. 68 M A P P I N G S TAT E L E S S N E S S I N L I T H UA N I A

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