Reviewed Article 1. Introduction A “stateless person” is someone who is not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law 1. Here, nationality refers to the legal bond between a person and a state 2. This bond can best be seen as a form of official membership or belonging which grants upon the national certain rights like Civil and Political Rights as well as duties or service to the State 3. A person who is stateless lacks this membership and will be seen and treated as a foreigner by every country in the world. This phenomenon has also been described as “de jure statelessness” 4. Statelessness can occur for several reasons, including discrimination against particular ethnic or religious groups, or on the basis of gender; the emergence of new States and transfers of territory between existing States; and gaps in nationality laws. Whatever the cause, statelessness has serious consequences for people in almost every country and in all regions of the world 5. This means that no person should be without a nationality. Nationality can be acquired through birth, residency, parentage and marriage and it can be proved by any means of identification e.g., international passport, certificate of naturalisation * Lecturer I and Secretary of the Baze University Law Clinic 1 Article 1 of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons 2 International Observatory of Statelessness retrieved from http://www.nationalityforall.org/whatis, last visited, 6th May 2019 3 ibid 4 ibid 5 Ending Statelessness retrieved from https://www.unhcr.org/stateless-people.html last visited on 7th May, 2019 6