The country acceded to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol in 1986, thereby accepting the core international standards for asylum protection; however, no domestic law has been enacted to establish national procedures for status determination or appeal. Asylum-seekers identified on arrival are referred to UNHCR’s regional office for eligibility assessment, with final recognition decisions taken extraterritorially under the UNHCR mandate rather than through national statutes.

Statelessness is not yet subject to a domestic framework despite accession to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness in 1994. No legal procedure exists to identify or determine stateless status, and persons without nationality are managed under general immigration regulations, often receiving only temporary residence documentation without formal guarantees or review mechanisms. In 2022, the Government affirmed a commitment to explore legislative measures to eradicate statelessness, reflecting a positive declaratory step in line with UNHCR recommendations.