Acknowledgments The research for this report was carried out in collaboration between the LSE Middle East Centre, the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo and the Association marocaine d’études et de recherches sur la migration (AMERM), Rabat. The research in Egypt was led by Nourhan Abdel Aziz under the supervision of Usha Natarajan, Co-Principal Investigator and Associate Director of the CMRS, and in Morocco was led by Malika Benradi, Co-Principal Investigator and Professor of Law at the University Mohammed V Rabat Agdal, with the assistance of Hajar El Moukhi, Hanane Serrhinni, and Badreddine Krikez. The project was assisted by an advisory committee that provided important feedback on the research priorities and findings, made up of the following institutions: UNHCR Statelessness Section (Melanie Khanna, Radha Govil, and Lena Haap); UNICEF (Kerry Neal); IOM (Anne Althaus); Norwegian Refugee Council (Fernando de Medina Rosales and Monica Sanchez Bermudez); and Fateh Azzam (independent human rights consultant, and Senior Policy Fellow, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut). Thanks also to Jacqueline Bhabha of Harvard University François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights for her comments on a draft of this paper, and to the participants at a workshop held at the LSE on 1 March 2019 at which the research findings were presented. The research for this paper was conducted as part of a collaboration project entitled ‘Preventing Statelessness among Migrants in North Africa’, funded by the LSE Collaboration with Arab Universities Programme, which is supported by the Emirates Foundation. The paper is based on field research carried out in Egypt and Morocco by the LSE Middle East Centre’s research partners, the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo and the Association marocaine d’études et de recherches sur la migration (AMERM), Rabat. Both CMRS and AMERM are publishing their own national reports.