2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total 2001-2018 59 49 39 22 15 13 1285 5 4 0 1 3 1 102 2 0 0 0 1 0 11 269 183 185 147 136 133 3100 58 40 16 18 35 26 3115 5 2 2 3 5 8 114 Source: Data accessed through the data tool based upon analyses by TRAC at Syracuse University of court records obtained from EOIR using the Freedom of Information Act. Retrieved on March 25, 2019. Between 2011 and 2016, USCIS received 818 affirmative asylum cases involving stateless persons (USCIS, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). In addition, 127 cases with Yugoslavian nationality, applied affirmatively for asylum. Attachment F provides annual figures of affirmative asylum applications filed and cases completed from 2011 to 2016 for these two groups. Table 6. Affirmative Asylum Cases received by USCIS, 2011-2016 Calendar Year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Total 2011-2016 Stateless 95 68 86 107 202 260 818 Yugoslavia 22 27 28 21 21 8 127 Source: USCIS (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). On June 30, 2018, ICE had in its custody 21 detainees with unknown nationality, six from the former Soviet Union, and two from Yugoslavia (TRAC, 2019d). On September 30, 2012, ICE had in custody 15 detainees of unknown nationality, 15 from the former Soviet Union, and 13 from Yugoslavia (ICE 2012). With the support of UNHCR, a number of countries have attempted to map statelessness within their borders. UNHCR-sponsored mapping projects have been carried out in Austria (UNHCR 2017a), Belgium (UNHCR 2012), Estonia (UNHCR 2016), Finland (UNHCR 2014a), Iceland (UNHCR 2014b), Lithuania (UNHCR 2016a), Malta (UNHCR 2014c), Norway (UNHCR 2015b), Sweden (UNHCR 2016b), the Netherlands (UNHCR 2011a), and the United Kingdom (UNHCR and Asylum Aid 2011). With the possible exception of the UK, these nations lack the diversity of the US foreign-born population. All of them also have far smaller foreign-born populations than the 66

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