/excerpt from U.S. State Department 2006 yearly human rights report/

"Regularization of status for non-Slovenian former Yugoslav citizens remained an issue. Approximately 18,000 persons, mostly Yugoslav citizens residing in the country at the time of independence, did not apply for citizenship in 1991 92 and subsequently found their records were "erased" from the population register in February 1992. The deletion of these records has been characterized by some as an administrative decision and by others as an ethnically motivated act. In 2003 the constitutional court ruled unconstitutional portions of a law governing the legal status of former Yugoslav citizens because the law neither recognizes the full period in which these "erased" persons resided in the country nor provides them the opportunity to apply for permanent residency. On February 21, a group representing "erased" citizens staged an act of civil disobedience in front of the National Assembly to protest the government's failure to implement the constitutional court's 2003 ruling. On November 29, the same group visited the European parliament to protest the government's lack of action. At year's end the government had not completed legislation to resolve the court's concerns."