IV. Socio-economic rights for persons granted leave to remain based on statelessness The UK should ensure that persons granted leave to remain based on statelessness have access to socio-economic rights guaranteed under the 1954 Convention and international human rights law. IV.A. The UK should amend the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011, Schedule 2, Part 2, to include stateless persons and their family members in the categories of persons eligible for student finance, and the UK should ensure that if statelessness leave is granted after commencement of a student’s course they are eligible for student finance for the remainder of the course, as would be the case where refugee status is granted. IV.B. The UK should amend the Allocation of Housing and Homeless (Eligibility) (England) Regulations 2006 to make provision for stateless persons. V. Acquisition of British nationality The UK should amend its nationality laws and/or policies to ensure that all persons who are stateless or at risk of statelessness have expedited and affordable access to British nationality. V.A. The UK should allow all stateless children born in the UK to acquire British citizenship without having to wait until they are 5 years old. V.B. The UK should introduce an expedited procedure for stateless persons wishing to acquire British nationality and provide fee exemptions or appropriately reduced fees for applicants with insufficient means. V.D. The UK should ensure that stateless persons without sufficient means to pay for legal advice have access to appropriately trained lawyers paid for by legal aid for assistance with applications for British nationality. 16