February 26, 1992 was a turning point for 25,671 people who were deleted from the permanent population register of the Republic of Slovenia by the Ministry of the Interior. The state gave residents who had a permanent residence in the Republic of Slovenia on the day of secession on 25 June 1991 the right to submit an application for citizenship within six months. Many did not submit an application during this time for various reasons, some did and their application was rejected or dismissed. All these residents were deprived of their permanent population status, called erasure. After many years of searching for a way to obtain citizenship of the Republic of Slovenia, some of the erased residents decided to go to court to fight for compensation for the consequences of the erasure. On the way of research, I came across people who, for various reasons, did not dare to fight with the state or did not have the financial means to do so, as well as people who filed lawsuits. The conversation with each of these persons brought individual conclusions to the procedures as well as individual understandings of the erasure itself and its consequences.
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