Title	Handbook and Guidelines on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
Publisher	UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Publication Date	December 2011
Topics	Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures | Refugees
Citation / Document Symbol	HCR/1P/4/ENG/REV. 3
Other Languages / Attachments	Arabic | French | Georgian | German (2013 Version) | Portuguese | Russian | Spanish | Turkish
Cite as	UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Handbook and Guidelines on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, December 2011, HCR/1P/4/ENG/REV. 3, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4f33c8d92.html [accessed 5 October 2017]
Comments	This is a reissue of the previous Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees. The intention of this Handbook is for it to be read together with Guidelines on International Protection No. 9: Claims to Refugee Status based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, Guidelines on International Protection No. 10: Claims to Refugee Status related to Military Service within the context of Article 1A (2) of the 1951 Convention and/or the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, Guidelines on International Protection No. 11: Prima Facie Recognition of Refugee Status & Guidelines on International Protection No. 12: Claims for refugee status related to situations of armed conflict and violence under Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and the regional refugee definitions