stateless person
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International law defines a stateless person as someone “not considered a national by any state under the operation of its law.”
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2025
Instead, as a noncitizen and stateless person, he spent the following five years being shuttled between grim immigration detention centers, with seemingly no release date in sight.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2023
It also said Mrs Popat was likely to be a Ugandan citizen "but if the Ugandan authorities refuse passport facilities you would appear to be a stateless person."
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2022
He struggles as a stateless person to obtain visas, and “our letters,” he laments, degenerate into “bureaucratic reports.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015
Rudolf Nureyev may call himself a stateless person since his defection from Russia seven years ago, but that didn't stop Uncle Sam from clamping a claim on him.
From Time Magazine Archive
