The determination of asylum seekers’ nationality, or lack thereof, is a key component of assessments of applications for international protection, and can prove difficult when asylum seekers do not submit any valid identity or travel documents, or are stateless or at risk of statelessness. This article investigates how nationality status determination is relevant and how it is regulated in the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) and in the ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’ (the Pact), that is currently under negotiation in the European Union (EU). Under the CEAS, the determination of nationality is not only critical to assessing whether the applicant qualifies for international protection, but can also determine the type of procedure through which their application is examined, and accordingly the level of procedural guarantees to which they are entitled. Under the Pact, with the introduction of a pre-entry screening and the obligation to process asylum applications lodged by individuals from countries with low recognition rates through border procedures, the determination of the applicant’s nationality becomes even more critical. In fact, the Pact institutionalizes the channelling of asylum seekers into substandard procedures based on their nationality, a practice that has been widely used in ‘hotspots’ in Greece and Italy. This is even more problematic considering that the Pact, like the current CEAS, provides only very general rules relevant to establishing a claimant’s nationality status. This article sheds light on an overlooked aspect of asylum procedures, and calls for the development of specific guidance on nationality status determination in asylum procedures at the EU level.

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CEAS 下庇护程序中的国籍身份确定以及“移民和庇护新公约”的潜在影响

确定寻求庇护者的国籍或缺乏国籍是评估国际保护申请的关键组成部分，当寻求庇护者未提交任何有效身份证件或旅行证件，或者是无国籍人或有无国籍风险时，这可能会很困难。本文探讨了国籍身份确定的相关性以及它在欧洲共同庇护制度 (CEAS) 和目前正在欧盟 (EU) 谈判的“移民和庇护新公约”（公约）中如何监管). 根据 CEAS，国籍的确定不仅对于评估申请人是否有资格获得国际保护至关重要，而且还可以确定审查其申请的程序类型，以及相应的他们有权获得的程序保障水平。根据该公约，随着入境前筛查的引入以及通过边境程序处理来自承认率低的国家的个人提出的庇护申请的义务，申请人国籍的确定变得更加关键。事实上，该公约将根据其国籍将寻求庇护者引入不合标准的程序制度化，这种做法已在希腊和意​​大利的“热点地区”广泛采用。考虑到该公约与当前的 CEAS 一样，仅提供与确定申请人国籍身份相关的非常一般的规则，这就更加成问题了。这篇文章阐明了庇护程序中一个被忽视的方面，