Section 7 is a checklist with strategies to assist different types of clients. It is a summary of legal solutions outlined in sections 5 and 6. This checklist will help ensure that you consider all possible legal options for each client. Introduction Section 6 focuses on how to prevent statelessness through assisting children in need of care and protection, such as unaccompanied foreign minors, orphans and foundlings, to access birth registration, immigration status and a path to nationality. Section 8 takes you through how to represent stateless persons who are in immigration detention with the goal of release and path to citizenship in South Africa. Section 9 touches on the importance of advocacy in this area of law due to the critical need for law reform. Section 10 consists of annexures that are intended to assist practitioners, such as relevant forms and South African citizenship laws and regulations. Promoting citizenship and preventing statelessness in South Africa: A practitioner’s guide 3