• DHS and DOS should offer documentation that allows stateless persons who have not naturalized to return to the United States after international travel. • DHS should detain stateless persons only as a last resort (UNHCR 2014g, 113). • DHS and EOIR should ensure the timely release of stateless persons from immigrant detention. • DHS should not make stateless persons an enforcement priority and should reduce the number of check-ins by stateless persons to one per year. • The US Department of Justice (DOJ) should provide training to immigration judges and clerks on the determination of statelessness and its legal implications. • DOS should continue to promote awareness and t h e reduction of statelessness worldwide, and should continue to advocate for the rights of stateless persons. • PRM, ORR, and states and localities should expand language assistance to stateless persons, such as English as a Second Language instruction, to facilitate their integration. • State and local governments should provide stateless residents with identification cards that provide access to local services, programs, benefits, and facilities, and that otherwise extend to them the rights, entitlements, and responsibilities of membership in their communities. • Monitor the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 16 and its corresponding Target 16.9, which provides for legal identify for all, including birth registration. • Promote awareness of statelessness and the challenges faced by stateless persons in local communities throughout the country. • Collect anonymized data on stateless persons they encounter in order to strengthen awareness of the causes and consequences of statelessness. • Screen for statelessness during legal screening of the unauthorized, naturalization workshops, know-you-rights presentations, and targeted outreach efforts to the stateless. • Provide stateless persons with pro bono and low-cost legal assistance for their asylum cases, immigration benefit applications, removal proceedings, and other legal needs. • Encourage network building among stateless persons and the organizations that serve them in order to expand best practices to reduce statelessness and to address the challenges of stateless persons. • Provide fora to allow stateless persons to share their stories, and refer them to organizations such as United Stateless for support and guidance. • Develop programming to meet the unique needs of stateless persons and to support their integration, including through language assistance to ensure that they can pass the citizenship test. 76