Annex II - The Co-Submitting Organisations 1. Asylum Aid82 delivers high quality legal representation to some of the most vulnerable people seeking asylum in the UK: children, survivors of trafficking, and stateless people. Together with UNHCR we undertook research mapping statelessness in the UK in 2011 and on the basis of that research persuaded the UK Home Office to adopt a stateless determination procedure. Asylum Aid works in partnership with pro bono lawyers from 12 city law firms to provide free legal advice and representation to stateless people in the stateless determination procedure. Since 2018 we have provided advice to 46 potentially stateless individuals through this project. We work to improve the protection of stateless people in the UK through participating in Home Office stakeholder meetings, drawing on our expertise and experience of the procedure, and delivering training and raising awareness among other legal professionals. 2. The Liverpool Law Clinic83 is a legal practice based in the University of Liverpool. Clients access free legal advice, assistance and representation on a range of matters, including determinations of statelessness in the context of migration, deportation and acquisition of nationality. Qualified lawyers at the Law Clinic have been teaching students through this work since 2013. Staff have authored a practice guide, a report, a case note, hold regular stakeholder policy meetings with the Home Office, contributed to pre-UPR work on the UK’s 2018 review, held an international conference on statelessness, maintain the UNHCR Index on Statelessness for the UK, and are active members of ENS. 3. Roma Support Group84 is the first Roma charity established in the UK in 1998. RSG is and advice and support charity helping hundreds of Roma people to successfully settle in the UK. Over the past years RSG has increased considerably its policy and campaigning work, especially in the migration area, leading the Roma charity sector work in the Brexit and EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) field. Since 2018 RSG has facilitated EUSS support for over 3000 Roma people. This has enabled the organisation to draw conclusions on the potential risk of statelessness amongst those from the Roma communities. 4. The European Network on Statelessness (ENS)85 is a civil society alliance of NGOs, lawyers, academics, people affected by statelessness, and other independent experts committed to addressing statelessness in Europe, with over 170 members in 41 European countries. ENS organises its work around three pillars – law and policy development, awareness-raising, and capacity-building. This submission partially draws on information and analysis from the Statelessness Index on the UK,86 maintained and developed by ENS and its members. The Index is an online comparative tool that assesses European countries’ law, policy and practice on the protection of stateless people and the prevention and reduction of statelessness against international norms and good practice. 5. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI)87 is the first and only human rights NGO dedicated to working on statelessness at the global level. ISI’s mission is to promote 82 See https://www.asylumaid.org.uk/ See https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/liverpool-law-clinic/ 84 See https://www.romasupportgroup.org.uk/ 85 For more information about the European Network on Statelessness, see: www.statelessness.eu 86 See https://index.statelessness.eu/country/united-kingdom 87 See https://www.institutesi.org/ 83 17