Court name: Council of State of the Netherlands (Raad van State)
State: Netherlands
Date of decision:
Key aspects: Acquisition of nationality, Discrimination, Standard of proof, State succession, Statelessness determination
The applicants are ethnic Armenians from Azerbaijan, and claim to be stateless. The applicants applied for naturalisation, which was denied to them on the basis that their identity could not be adequately established, as they neither submitted a valid travel document nor a valid birth certificate from Azerbaijan, and the Dutch municipality records did not formally recognise them as stateless.The Court upheld the administrative decision.