Hi @Rebek_ka , Thanks for sharing and glad to see that you found our forum! It’s extremely frustrating to read and hear - again and again - that the main issue in solving statelessness remains in the lacking knowledge/capacity of the local authorities to recognise the statelessness of a person. Your client is definitely not the only one who is facing this issue - mainly, as we don’t have a standardised procedure for this in Germany. May I ask which city your client is based in ? (Feel free to respond to this question in a direct messag) We have been able to establish connections to authorities or supporting institutions in a few German cities, this might be helpful… Also, as most of the cases need very individual approaches I would suggest we schedule a video call to discuss the situation and find out whether there are helpful contacts we could connect you to? Feel free to send me a direct message Looking forward to hearing from you. All the best, Christiana 

Hello @Rebek_ka, I may also be able to lend a hand, as I have connections to legal specialists in Ukraine that are experiences in dealing with these kind of cases. They may provide some useful information on the specific issue of having a Soviet passport and authorities assuming a nationality for the stateless person. We see it happen a lot. It is not in line with good practices. To be honest, in this case, by what you described, the assumptions made by the Germany authorities do not make any sense. Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia were different Soviet republics, and became different countries upon the fall of the USSR. It’s like asking a stateless person with Vietnamese origin to prove lacking Chinese and Japanese nationality. It seems quite arbitrary. Please email me and we can discuss further: aleksejs.ivashuk@gmail.com