ROMA BELONG because she was a foreigner and without legal residency. Mimoza then returned to Albania with her child and the birth certificate from the Greece Civil Status Office. She then went to the civil status office in Albania and asked to have her child registered. The Albanian authorities did not accept the document she had, claiming it was invalid because it was missing basic data such as the name of the child, it was in the Greek language and was not legalised. Lumturi is an Albanian citizen. She and her husband irregularly migrated to Greece fifteen years ago. They separated and Lumturi began living with another Albanian national living without residence status in Greece, while she was still legally married. During this new relationship she gave birth to a girl and some years later to a boy. The children are registered without names in their certificates in Greece. After many years as undocumented migrants, she and her partner decided to come back to Albania. Her financial situation is extremely poor. Neither she nor her partner receive social support even though they are entitled to it. The children do not go to school due to the fact that they are not registered. They lack all other public services as well. She is asking for help from the State. Shpresa is a young mother from Albania. She is stateless and does not have any document to prove her identity. She has two children who are stateless as well. Shpresa was born in the nineties while her parents were irregularly living in Germany. At the time of her birth, her parents gave a false declaration about their identity. Shpresa identifies herself as Albanian. She and her children speak Albanian. She does not remember living in Germany because her parents brought her back to Albania when she was a baby. Her father now is dead. Her mother is alive and is an Albanian citizen with documentation. Shpresa asked the authorities to be registered in the Albanian civil status office based on the document her parents gave her – a birth certificate issued by German authorities – and also by descent based on her parents’ Albanian nationality. However, as she is an adult, she was informed that she has to apply for Albanian citizenship through a naturalisation process. Her children are not registered and she is depressed. She did not give birth to her children in a maternity ward because of her lack of documentation. As a result, her children are also unregistered. She says that it is not her fault her parents emigrated and that she does not have regular documents. She cannot fix her situation. She cannot travel, and due to her lack of documentation she cannot legally marry the father of her children, nor can she legally give anything to them. Flutura is in a similar situation to Shpresa. She is the mother of three young children. All of them are unregistered. Flutura has no documents to prove her identity. She feels Albanian and speaks Albanian. She was born in Albania, but due to a fire in the hospital the documents proving her birth were burned. She asked the authorities to register her because she has no documents to prove her identity. The authorities said she is an adult and has to apply for naturalisation. Her children cannot be registered either. They were born out of the hospital and she does not have any documentation of their births. She is devastated. She cannot marry the father of her children who is an Albanian national. She is asking for help. Eni is a young child of Albanian parents. His birth was never registered and he is at risk of statelessness. The reason for this situation is that he is intersex. Eni has born in a maternity 4