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Yugoslavia: Information on whether a person who exited Croatia in the autumn of 1991, and who received a new Yugoslav passport while abroad in 1993, would be allowed to return and reside in Yugoslavia, and on whether such a person would be considered a citizen of Yugoslavia

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 October 1995
Citation / Document Symbol YUG21893.E
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Yugoslavia: Information on whether a person who exited Croatia in the autumn of 1991, and who received a new Yugoslav passport while abroad in 1993, would be allowed to return and reside in Yugoslavia, and on whether such a person would be considered a citizen of Yugoslavia, 1 October 1995, YUG21893.E, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6abc20.html [accessed 27 December 2015]
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Information on the above-mentioned subjects could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB. However, for related information, please consult Response to Information Request YUG17255.E of 21 April 1994. For information on and analyses of a proposed law on Yugoslav citizenship, please consult the attachments.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Attachments

Inter Press Service. 1 August 1995. Vesna Peric Zimonjic. "Yugoslavia: Refugees Threatened by Proposed Citizenship Law." (NEXIS)

Srpska Rec [Belgrade, in Serbo-Croatian]. 4 July 1995. Radmilo Cobovic. "Proposed Law on Citizenship Discussed." (FBIS-EEU-95-162 22 Aug. 1995, pp. 50-51)

         Vojska [Belgrade, in Serbo-Croatian]. 6 July 1995. S. Ristic. "New FRY Citizenship Law Approved." (FBIS-EEU-95-162 22 Aug. 1995, pp. 51-52)

Additional Sources Consulted

DIRB country file on Yugoslavia.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Reports. Daily.

Oral sources.

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