Czechia: Information for stateless people and those at risk of statelessness fleeing Ukraine

For more information on entry and stay in Czechia, see the Ministry of the Interior of Czechia information page for Ukrainians, the official web portal for foreigners in Czechia – FRS, Nasi Ukrajinci (including a list of the regional KACPU centres), Association for Integration and Migration (SIMI), and UNHCR help page. [...] Once the application for temporary protection is considered inadmissible, the persons can try to pursue their rights by filing a lawsuit at the Regional Court; however, there is currently a preliminary question submitted by the Supreme Administrative Court to the European Court of Justice, and therefore this route to protection may be lengthy and not suitable for every refugee. [...] International Protection Temporary Protection What is it? Asylum status: for people eligible under Temporary protection for eligible persons the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status fleeing the conflict in Ukraine of Refugees, and for people entitled to (implemented in Czechia through “Lex protection on humanitarian grounds Ukraine”) Subsidiary protection: for people who do not meet the conditio. [...] Statelessness determination should be conducted either in parallel with or following the refugee status determination, with due regard to the primacy of the asylum claim and the principle of confidentiality for refugees in statelessness determination procedures. [...] Czechia has established a procedure for determining statelessness under the authority of the Ministry of Interior, but it only leads to tolerated stay for the first year, and there is no comprehensive protection status for stateless people.