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These discussions were illuminating to contextualise the initial research findings within the dynamics of the current asylum landscape in the UK, as well as to highlight points of similarity and applicability of the findings to other contexts and profiles of statelessness and/or 26 This included research reflected in the following publications: Middle East and North Africa Nationality and Stateles. [...] That is sufficient to qualify for refugee protection.’34 Furthermore, the severity of the general humanitarian situation in Syria means that the UK considers return to the country as a breach of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (transposed in paragraph 339C and 339CA(iii) of the Immigration Rules).35 Unlike several other European countries, which have considered the possibility. [...] Significantly, in statelessness cases, it is the claimant who must “establish their claimed statelessness to the balance of probabilities standard.” However, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons states that “In the case of statelessness determination, the burden of proof is in principle shared, in that both the applicant and the examiner must cooper. [...] In a number of the cases where solicitors had commissioned country experts to comment on the documents, the country experts had made contact with the authorities in Syria in attempts to establish that the named individual is known to the government of Syria. [...] 22 description of some of the major differences between the dialects of Kurdish.”76 It responds to the dearth in detailed mapping and analysis of the variation in the K.