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
She was once again asked to apply for citizenship in India "as 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
The case against the former soldier, Heinrich Boere, who is now a stateless person, was depicted by German analysts as one of the last major war crimes trials.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2010
Has been a citizen of Rumania and the Soviet Union, but now claims to be a stateless person.
From Time Magazine Archive
