Norway

In 2017, CEDAW reported that Norway lacks a statelessness determination procedure and a regime for the protection of stateless persons. Children born in Norway to stateless women, including women asylum-seekers and refugees, may therefore become stateless. CEDAW recommended that Norway amend its nationality laws to allow for dual citizenship to reduce the risk that foreign spouses become stateless or lose custody of their Norwegian-born children should their marriage to a Norwegian spouse dissolve. Official instructions for birth registration for non-Nordic parents of different nationalities say to record the nationality of the mother in the birth notification. However, children whose mother originates from a country where matrilineal conferral of citizenship is not possible and whose fathers are unable or unwilling to confer citizenship are at risk of statelessness.