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How the Trump administration’s DACA backlog threw the life of a stateless law student into chaos.

According to advocates, thousands of babies would be born stateless each year if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump. “That looks like a life in constant limbo of being afraid of being subject to immigration deportation,” Betsy Fisher, Advocacy Counsel for United Stateless, said. “It looks like long-term immigration detention, separated from family and imprisoned, without a place to be deported to. It looks like not being able to visit family members who are in another country because you don’t have a travel document.”

He danced through the war, through statelessness and through the death and destruction of his dreams.
Today, Ahmad Joudeh is still dancing

As the Supreme Court weighs whether to narrow birthright citizenship, one formerly stateless woman warns that stripping children of automatic citizenship would turn her lifelong fear and uncertainty into a reality for countless more families.

Hundreds in the U.S. have no birth certificate or Social Security number. Some covet this ‘off-grid’ status – but it means being barred from ordinary life.

Ending birthright citizenship has devastating consequences that would last generations.

What happens when a person has no country?

Citizens of Nowhere is a documentary short about stateless people in the United States – individuals who, through circumstance or legal technicality, belong to no nation. Without passports, citizenship or legal recognition, they live in a state of uncertainty.

From finding work and accessing education, to simply existing within a system that does not officially recognise them, stateless people face endless bureaucratic barriers.

This documentary short by Alicia Sully questions what citizenship really means, and what happens when a person has none.

A What Took You So Long? production, in association with United Stateless.

United Stateless redefines social justice by centering the leadership of stateless people themselves, creating a groundbreaking model of self-advocacy and systemic change for a population long excluded from legal recognition and public discourse.