3 1 2 (4) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees— 3 (A) is the United Nations agency respon- 4 sible for preventing and reducing statelessness; 5 and 6 (B) estimates that there are more than 7 4,200,000 stateless persons worldwide. 8 (5) A 2020 study found that there are approxi- 9 mately 218,000 individuals living in the United 10 States who are stateless or at risk of statelessness. 11 (6) Stateless individuals live in all 50 States, 12 and many such individuals have lived in the United 13 States for years or decades without relief. 14 (7) Despite the presence of stateless persons in 15 the United States, there is no law relating to the 16 identification of stateless persons in the United 17 States or to provide them with a path to legal sta- 18 tus. 19 (8) Stateless persons generally— 20 (A) live without the means to work legally pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 21 or to travel; and 22 (B) face barriers in opening bank ac- 23 counts, pursuing higher education, and obtain- 24 ing health care. •S 5330 IS VerDate Sep 11 2014 16:14 Jan 06, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S5330.IS S5330