OUr IMPACT
Since our founding, United Stateless has raised awareness about a largely unknown and underreported issue—statelessness in the U.S. We work in 4 main areas: Community Building, Research & Student Engagement, Advocacy, and Stateless Services. Below are highlights of our impacts.

Community Building
Starting from our founding group of 7 stateless people, the United Stateless community has grown to include 15 stateless members and over 20 allies and volunteers from the legal, academic, and communications fields. We have also connected with over 30 stateless people in U.S. immigration detention centers.
Advocacy
Our first advocacy win was to petition the United Nations to change the number of stateless people in the U.S. from “0” to “*” (for unknown) on their website. Since then, these accomplishments position us to impact on policy:

Contributed to the methodology and participated in a groundbreaking report by the Center for Migration Studies (CMS): “Statelessness in the United States: A Study to Estimate and Profile the US Stateless Population.” You can read USL response to the report here. [USL response]

Championed the inclusion of stateless solutions in both the 2021 Immigration Action Plan and Transition Report 2020: Refugee Council USA for the new Biden-Harris administration to implement.
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Presented at the World Conference on Statelessness in the Hague, raising awareness of statelessness in the US and inspiring grassroots stateless-led organizations worldwide.
