Within the project directed at reduction and prevention of statelessness in Serbia, funded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in December 2011 Praxis issued a report entitled “Persons at Risk of Statelessness in Serbia – Case studies”.

The objective of this case study is to provide a more detailed insight into the implementation of regulations and exercise of the right to citizenship in practice. The cases were selected in a way to show why, despite the general compliance of the Law on Citizenship of the Republic of Serbia with the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, there are continuous violations of the right to citizenship of many persons and why certain persons find it so difficult to prove and establish their citizenship.

The selected cases serve as an overview of the situations, which most often result in statelessness, and effectiveness of certain provisions aimed at prevention of statelessness. The given examples were categorised into four groups, according to the origin of the problems they face and/or depending on the procedures they should initiate in order to acquire citizenship.