WHAT WE DO
Civil registration & statelessness
Support persons without documents or at risk of statelessness, asylum seekers and refugees to obtain or confirm a legal identity and secure residence and nationality.
Key programme activities
Legal assistance on:
- birth registration and late registration of children;
- correction of civil status data and confirmation of nationality;
- access to identity documents and travel documents;
- residence permits and procedures for refugees and persons with international or temporary protection.
- Identification and referral of persons at risk of statelessness through community work, cooperation with CSOs and frontline institutions.
- Strategic litigation and individual cases to remove administrative and legal barriers in civil status and foreigners’ procedures.
- Legal and policy support to ministries, civil status offices and Parliament on reforms of the Civil Status Law, Citizenship Law, Law on Foreigners, asylum legislation and related by-laws.
