Furthermore, many people interviewed for this study reported being rejected for jobs precisely because of their precarious status. “After coming here, six months later I applied first time got work permit. I received rejection. I didn’t know why or who to ask. I asked lawyer he said it’s not my scope I cannot help you with it. Immigration office said you are facing deportation order and that’s why it’s rejected. How are they gonna give me work permit. I don’t have a place to go. Living in hell for a few weeks, waiting for them to call us where they gonna send us.” [Nirsan] “The problem is I can’t find a good job. People look at my status and say they cannot give me job right now. I applied to a lot of apprenticeship programs. A lot of people say we cannot dedicate our future to you because your future is not fixed here.” [Rabhu] “For three different interviews for three different jobs, they said ‘it is better to hire [someone] who has a legal status because at any moment you could be kicked out of the country.’” [Alejandro] Those stateless persons who do not hold a work permit are forced to make decisions that are dependent upon their financial stability, and may negatively impact other areas of their lives including health care and relationships with their loved ones. “We have a hard relationship because of [my husband not being allowed to work]. He feel bad because he don’t want to just sit at house. When problems too much and he don’t work and there is no money, there is too much problem that happen at home.” [Noor] The impact that a stateless person’s status has on their ability to work in Canada is paramount to their ability to support themselves and their overall well-being. The financial instability that results from precarious income affects stateless persons’ stress levels and relationships, but may also force them into working informal jobs vulnerable to being taken advantage of by their employers. 3.2 Welfare Chapter Four of the 1954 Convention outlines the welfare rights that are to be extended to stateless persons on a party state’s territory.65 Among other rights, welfare encompasses housing, public education, and social assistance. Other international human rights instruments, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, similarly protect the right to adequate housing, the right to education, and the right to social security.66 65 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. (1954). 66 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Articles 9, 11 and 13; Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 26, 27 and 28. 22