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In some cases, such as that of ethnic Russians In Latvia , conditions for citizenship may be problematic or difficult to satisfy. In some enclave areas, such as the FARC -ruled areas of Colombia, and parts of Sudan and Afghanistan , people may have no practical contact with a potentially passport-issuing state which nominally claims sovereignty over them. While stateless persons were more common before the , Kurdish , Palestinian and Sahrawi refugees who claim asylum due to statelessness, for example. Cases of ''de facto'' statelessness have arisen due to Historical Provisions Of British Nationality Law which led to cases where people have had a British Passport without Right Of Abode in the United Kingdom . Those with such status who did not have citizenship or residence rights in any other country were effectively stateless despite holding British nationality. Effective 30 April 2003, as part of the ''Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002'' the United Kingdom gave most British nationals without any other citizenship the right to register as full British citizens if they wish and has hence resolved most of the British cases of effective statelessness. A slightly tragicomic rendition of this condition was portrayed in the motion picture '' The Terminal '', where a man was trapped living inside an airport because he couldn't return home due to his unrecognized citizenship status (his homeland collapsed while he was in transit). This story was based in part on the real-life story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri , who spent several years in the Charles De Gaulle Airport due to conflicts with French law and the fact he was not welcome in his country of origin. EXTERNAL LINKS
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