“Strategic use of RSD” can mean, for example, that certain populations of concern maintain their status as asylum-seekers in UNHCR records. UNHCR nevertheless recognizes that there will be ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A new identity card issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) can be verified with a smartphone. The verification can be done with any Android or iPhone via ...

Following years of negotiations to transfer the responsibility of RSD from UNHCR to the Government of Israel, an inter-ministerial committee known as the National Status Granting Body (NSGB) was ...

At one level it might appear that UNHCR - by simply continuing to carry out RSD and resettlement on behalf ... one or more other criteria are met, for example, it serves a regional responsibility ...

In the absence of a national legal framework for refugees in Pakistan, UNHCR conducts refugee status determination (RSD) under its mandate. Pakistan accepts UNHCR decisions on RSD and allows ...