22. (...) The State party should:
(a) Adopt legal and practical measures to simplify and facilitate the naturalization and integration of stateless persons and non-citizens, including by revisiting the requirements for the granting of citizenship;
(b) Consider offering language courses free of charge to all non-citizens who wish to apply for Estonian citizenship;
(c) Continue and enhance the efforts by the Citizenship and Migration Board to raise the awareness of parents whose children are eligible for naturalization through the simplified procedure of the requirements for citizenship, and consider granting automatic citizenship at birth, without previous registration by parents, to the children of non-citizen parents who do not acquire any other nationality;
(d) Ensure the effective implementation of the Integration Strategy and of the State Integration Programme for 2008–2013, and extend the Programme beyond 2013;
(e) Despite the information provided by the State party regarding its decision not to ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, reconsider such ratification as a matter of priority.
Remedy/Reparation
Access to nationality/Naturalization
International Instruments
Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
Implementing measures - Other