Acknowledgments The researcher would like to thank the following: Staff members at various Migration Divisions of Territorial Police Units who agreed to be interviewed for this study and wished not to be named. As civil servants who come into direct contact with stateless persons in Lithuania, the information and insight they provided has been invaluable. Janas Vidickas, Vaidas Kulikauskas, Daiva Vežikauskaitė and Loreta Leimontaitė at the Migration Department, Aleksandras Kislovas at the Foreigners’ Registration Centre, Inga Masiulaitytė-Šukevič and Danguolė Svidlerenė at the Lithuania Statistics Department, as well as Rasa Jablonskytė-Barbuškienė at the Citizenship Commission for their time and cooperation. Laurynas Biekša, Vladimiras Siniovas, Gintarė Guzevičiūtė, Edita Blažytė, Ieva Narkeliūnaitė, Gabrielė Bružaitė at the Lithuanian Red Cross; Birutė Sabatauskaitė and Eglė Urbanavičiūtė at the Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights; Karolis Liutkevičius at the Human Rights Monitoring Institute and Svetlana Novopolskaja at the Roma Community Centre – for helping me come into contact with stateless persons and sharing their expertise and enthusiasm. I hope this report meets your expectations. Vytautas Toleikis, Stasys S., Kazimeras and Elise Filo for providing information about and access to the Lithuanian Roma community. Mindaugas Sėdaitis and the directors at the Marijampolė corrective institution for facilitating two important interviews at the institution, and for all the information they have provided. Professor Vytautas Sinkevičius at Mykolas Romeris University. Staff and volunteers at the Caritas homeless shelter and soup kitchen in Vilnius who put me in contact with many vulnerable stateless persons. I would also like to thank them for the services they provide and for allowing me to participate. The UNHCR Associate Liaison Officers in Lithuania, for all their support and guidance during the research. And, above all – those stateless persons across the country who agreed to participate in interviews and share their stories. U N H C R S TO C K H O L M , M AY 2 0 1 6 7