(1) The Commissioner shall ensure that refugees are integrated into the communities where the refugee camps or the refugees are settled.
(2) For the purposes of sub regulation (1), the Commissioner shall sensitise the host communities about the presence of refugees and any other matters relating to their coexistence with each other

The Commissioner shall liaise with the national, local, and regional planning authorities for the purposes of ensuring that refugee concerns and related matters are taken into consideration in the initiation and formulation of sustainable development and environmental plans.

In the integration of refugees in the host communities, the Commissioner shall, in cooperation with the UNHCR and the other organizations involved in the assistance of refugees, ensure that special attention is given to women, children and persons with disabilities.

3. Application for refugee status.

(1) A person who enters Uganda and wishes to remain in Uganda as a refugee shall apply to the Eligibility Committee for the grant of refugee status within thirty days after the date of entry into Uganda.

(2) An application made under sub regulation (1) shall be submitted in person to the Commissioner through an officer authorised by the Commissioner or through the UNHCR representative.

(3) The application under sub regulation (1) is in Form A specified in the Third Schedule.

(4) Where a person wishes to remain in Uganda as a refugee, but was not able to apply for refugee status within the time prescribed under sub regulation (1), he or she shall approach and present himself or herself to a refugee reception officer as soon as
practicable explaining the circumstances of his or her entry into Uganda.

(5) The refugee reception officer shall record the information provided to him or her under sub regulation (4) and shall receive the person and give him or her the form and guide him or her on how to apply for refugee status.

(1) A person who is registered as seeking refugee status or as a refugee shall, on changing his or her place of residence within Uganda, give notice in Form I specified in the Third Schedule to the Commissioner of his or her new residence and address,
within seven days after the change.

(2) Every refugee who intends to relocate from one refugee settlement to another shall prior to the relocation, seek permission from the Commissioner.

(3) Where a person who has applied for refugee status or a refugee is absent from his or her place of residence for a continuous period exceeding ninety days, he or she
shall—

(a) after the expiry of the ninety days notify the Commissioner in
writing of his or her address for the time being; and
(b) within seven days of his or her return to that place of
residence,

notify the Commissioner in writing, of his or her return.

(4) The Commissioner may require a person who has applied for refugee status or is a refugee and has notified him or her of a change in his or her place of residence within Uganda to produce his or her identification and may make any change that he or she
thinks necessary.

(1) The Commissioner shall issue to every person granted refugee status and every member of his or her family an identification document.

(2) The identification document for a refugee and every member of his or her family shall contain the following—
(a) the identity number of the refugee;
(b) the name of the refugee, gender, date of birth and the place
where he or she was born;
(c) the country where the refugee is a citizen;
(d) a recent photograph of the refugee; and
(e) the fingerprints of the refugee.

A person aggrieved by a decision of the Appeals Board may apply to court for judicial review.

The Commissioner shall forward the names and particulars of every refugee registered under these regulations to the Commissioner for immigration for the purposes of issuing travel documents to the refugee and every member of his or her family.

(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), a refugee shall not be extradited to a country where he or she is likely to suffer persecution on the grounds of religion, ethnicity or gender.

4. Application for refugee status by a family.

(1) Where members of the same family are seeking refugee status, each adult member of the family may lodge their own application for refugee status.

(2) Notwithstanding sub regulation (1) a family seeking refugee status shall not be separated upon arrival in Uganda or after approaching a refugee reception officer.