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In Search of Solutions: Addressing Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa September 2016 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Regional Reports
Jordan and Hungary: The right to Jordanian nationality of a person born in Hungary to a Jordanian father; procedure to recognize Jordanian nationality (2014-May 2016) 6 June 2016 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Jordanie et Hongrie : information sur le droit à la nationalité jordanienne d'une personne née en Hongrie d'un père jordanien; marche à suivre pour faire reconnaître la nationalité jordanienne (2014-mai 2016) 6 June 2016 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Syrian refugees: 'Reset' needed in Europe's approach 3 February 2015 \| Publisher: Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights \| Document type: Commentaries
Jordan: 1. Please advise whether there are any impediments in the law of Jordan or Israel to being a dual national of Jordan and Israel. 2. Please confirm that in Jordan if a person's father is a Jordanian national, and the person is born in Jordan, that person would have a right to Jordanian nationality 20 January 2011 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Nationality Rights for All: A Progress Report and Global Survey on Statelessness 11 March 2009 \| Publisher: Refugees International \| Document type: Thematic Reports
Jordan: 1. Please provide detailed information on the status of Palestinians from Gaza in Jordan, their socio-economic circumstances; the discrimination they encounter with respect to employment, access to services and property rights; and the degree of hardship faced by members this group in their day to day lives. 2. Country information suggests that Palestinians from Gaza are allowed to work in the private sector in Jordan. Please provide a realistic assessment of this proposition in the context of Jordan's official and unofficial employment rates; the level of Palestinians' participation in the private (unskilled) work force; their rate of success in finding employment, and information suggesting that between 30% and 60% of Palestinians live below poverty levels in Jordan. 3. What is the extent of assistance provided by UNRWA to Palestinians from Gaza living in Jordan? 4. Are Palestinians from Gaza prevented from obtaining driver's licenses in Jordan? 5. Are Palestinians from Gaza at risk of temporary detention or other forms of mistreatment by the Jordanian authorities due to circumstances arising out of their status, e.g. lack of access to a national ID number? 6. Is there information to suggest that the Jordanian Embassy in Australia has refused to renew temporary Jordanian passports held by Palestinians from Gaza? 7. Has the UAE passed new laws preventing Palestinians and Iraqis, particularly those holding temporary travel documents, from being able to enter the country on work visas? 1 December 2008 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Jordan: 1. The SHRC Annual Report for 2005 indicates that Jordan tries to "respect the affairs" of exiled Syrians. Are you aware of any people of Syrian background, either born in Jordan or having resided there for many years, who have been refused Jordanian citizenship? If so, why might they be denied citizenship? 2. Are you aware of any recent widespread official pressure on people of Syrian background, who have resided in Jordan for many years, to leave Jordan? If so, in your view what is the reason for that pressure? 29 October 2007 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Jordan: Update to ZZZ27519.E of 5 August 1997 on whether an Israeli-Arab woman who wants to obtain residency rights in Jordan can obtain a visa to enter Jordan at the Embassy of Jordan in Ottawa instead of the Consulate of Jordan in Tel Aviv 1 November 1998 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Jordan: Information on the right to Jordanian citizenship of a minor born outside Jordan to a Jordanian mother and a Yemeni father, and who has never lived in Jordan 1 October 1996 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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