- 2 results found
- 2019
- Statelessness and asylum
- Statelessness determination
- Switzerland
- Clear
Court name: Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland
State: Switzerland
Date of decision:
Legal instruments: 1954 Statelessness Convention
Key aspects: Access to social and economic rights, Burden of proof, Deprivation of nationality, Standard of proof, Statelessness and asylum, Statelessness determination
The applicant was a Syrian national of Kurdish ethnicity, who unsuccessfully applied for asylum in Switzerland. He subsequently claimed that he has been deprived of Syrian nationality and therefore ought to be recognised as stateless. The State Secretariat for Migration and the Court decided that he did not meet the standard of proof to substantiate his statelessness of 'full proof'.
Court name: Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland
State: Switzerland
Date of decision:
Legal instruments: 1954 Statelessness Convention
Key aspects: Acquisition of nationality, Burden of proof, Determination/confirmation of nationality, Standard of proof, Stateless status and documentation, Statelessness and asylum, Statelessness determination
The applicant is a Syrian Kurd, who fled to Austria in 2011. Just after he left, Syria passed a Decree that would have allowed the applicant to acquire Syrian nationality. The applicant was thus deemed to have been able to acquire Syrian nationality, even if he hasn’t done that, and therefore was not entitled to a stateless status.