MAPPING OF THE POPULATION AT RISK OF STATELESSNESS IN ALBANIA In 2000 when E.C was born, parents E.C. and H.C checked in the hospital under the fake identity they held as Kosovars in the UK. After many years E.C. and H.C. eventually returned to Albania where they are currently living. They wanted to register E.C. for school but the birth certificate from the UK is not notarized or translated into Albanian and it also contains the incorrect identities of the parents. For these reasons, E.C. cannot register or acquire Albanian citizenship. Interview 11 M.P. is a 32 year old Romanian woman. She had been trafficked from Romania to Greece when she was 15 years old. There she met an Albanian man and wanted to be with him in order to stop prostituting herself. He brought her to Albania, with two children that he acknowledges being the father of (today they are 10 and 8 years old). M.P. also gave birth also to a third child, who is 2 years old now. The two first children are facing potential statelessness, because they couldn’t be registered in the civil status office. Meanwhile M.P. was without legal papers, as a result couldn’t have a formal job, housing etc. The 2 year-old child was registered since he was born in Albania and in a hospital. M.P. continued to be exploited and forced to continue as a prostitute by the father or her children. He controlled her money and was also using drugs and involved in crime. M.P. and her children were like slaves. Being illegally in Albania, M.P. had no possibility to register her children. She had birth certificates from Greece but they were not notaried, nor translated. The children were missing a name in the birth certificates and could not be identified. They were locked in limbo for a long time with no local state institution gaving any solution or advice to M.P. By chance, a visit by TLAS to the city where M.P. was living led to them being able to offer help and support. She now in a shelter for trafficked woman together with her children. Her abuser is now under arrest. In his house, police found also guns, bullets, knives and two unlawful firearms with 200 bullets. M.P. is seeking help from the state to be granted legal residency on humanitarian grounds and she also wants to register her children as Albanian citizens. 72 UNHCR - TLAS / May 2018