MAPPING OF THE POPULATION AT RISK OF STATELESSNESS IN ALBANIA the registration of her children. Likewise, the eldest daughter, E.A., became a mother and because she was’t registered, it was impossible to register her marriage and she consequently failed to register her child, which was born in August 2013. Interview 6 K.Y. an Albanian citizen has been, for almost three years, living with another Albanian citizen, A.B. From their cohabitation, in 2009, a male child, F.Y., is born in a hospital. At the moment of birth, the mother A.B. stated her exact identity data but did not go to register the child in the civil status office, but instead, after five months, she left her family (K.Y. and F.Y.) and has never returned. The child’s father now looks after him The first time K.Y. found the child was unregistered was when he took him to be vaccinated at the hospital. The hospital initially refused to vaccinate and asked for te boy to be reistered and return when he had an identity document K.Y. went to the civil status office but was told he is not recognized as F.Y.’s legal father as he and the mother weren’t married at the time of the birth. Sincw that time and for many years, K.Y. has been unable to find a solution and F.Y. remains unregistered. Interview 7 L.M. is a 22-year-old boy and was born in Korça a town in southeastern Albania. His mother, after his birth (which happened in a hospital) due to family conditions, left L.M. under the care of the nuns of Korça. L.M. was her third child. She had stated that she would leave L.M. in the institution for a short time as soon as her social conditions were improved and then she would take L.M. to live in the family with her two other children, but this never happened and the child was finally settled after 3 years of waiting at the preschool child’s home in Shkodra, after his mother was no longer interested. L.M. was a child with physical disabilities and in 2004 he was admitted to an association that provided services for people with disabilities. For several years, this association had asked for L.M.’s birth certificate to allow him to be registered at school, but their request couldn’t be met. Although L.M. is now 22, he has never been registered and his existence still remains officially unrecognized.. Interview 8 V.A and Q.B. are two Albanian citizens that have been cohabiting for 25 years with each other. From their relationship they gave birth to 6 children of whom four children are unregistered in the civil registry. Unregistered children are respectively 18 years old, 9 years old, 6 years old and 3 years old. V.A and Q.B. cannot register their children because three of the unregistered children were born at home while 70 UNHCR - TLAS / May 2018