Key legal question
Whether the applicants met the legal requirements for recognition as stateless persons.
Extracted holding
No. The court held that the applicants had not shown that they were stateless de jure or that they had sufficiently pursued acquisition or confirmation of Iraqi nationality.
Extracted reasoning
The Convention applies only to persons whom no state recognizes as nationals. The applicants still appeared potentially entitled to Iraqi nationality, and their limited contacts with the Iraqi and Syrian representations were insufficient to show that nationality could not be obtained.