How to apply for leave to remain as a stateless person

If you are stateless you can apply for leave to remain as a stateless person.
Initial applications for leave to remain as a stateless person are free of charge.

To apply for leave to remain as a stateless person, please see the application form and guidance on the right side of this page.

Supporting documents

You should provide as much documentary evidence as you can to support your claim as a stateless person. The list below provides a guide as to the type of evidence you should provide:

• your reasons for regarding yourself as stateless;
• response(s) from the government or relevant authority in another country or its representative in the UK to an enquiry regarding your national status;
• identity documents (birth certificate, extract from civil register, national identity card, voter registration document);
• passports or other travel documents (including expired ones);
• documents regarding applications to acquire nationality or obtain proof of nationality;
• certificate of naturalisation;
• certificate of renunciation of nationality;
• marriage certificate;
• military service record/discharge certificate;
• school certificates;
• medical certificates/records (attestations issued from hospital on birth, vaccination booklets);
• identity and travel documents of parents, spouse and children;
• immigration documents, such as residence permits of country or countries of habitual residence;
• other documents relating to countries of residence (for example, employment documents, property deeds, tenancy agreements, school records, baptismal certificates); and 
• record of sworn oral testimony of neighbours and community members.

You may then be required to attend an interview to answer questions about the evidence you have submitted.

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