Since the day they were born, Sara and Sofia have been waiting to receive an identity document or a passport and are at risk of statelessness. They were born in Spain to parents of other EU nationalities, and their births were registered by the Spanish authorities with the names of their parents. On paper, they are entitled to EU citizenship as they inherited it from their mothers. In practice however, they remain in limbo, unable to cross borders or exercise free movement rights, and at risk of statelessness – simply because their birth certificates contain two parents of the same gender.