http://riverdalepress.com/stories/Some-Riverdalians-must-cope-with-stateless-status,58356Some Riverdalians must cope with stateless status
By Isabel Angell Posted 10/28/15
Nikolai Levashov immigrated to the United States from Estonia about a decade ago, on a student visa. In 2007, he renewed his passport at the Estonian consulate in Los Angeles. The document would be good for another five years, so he promptly forgot about it.
But the next time he tried to renew his passport — this time at the New York City consulate, he was turned away. He was told he could only renew it in Estonia.
The reason? The passport, which he showed
The Press,
he holds is not a true Estonian passport. Instead, the current Riverdale resident has an “alien’s passport,” a travel document the Estonian government issued to many of the ethnic Russians who found themselves living in Estonia after the fall of the Soviet Union. The alien’s passport gives its holder legal residence in Estonia, but does not grant citizenship, rendering them stateless. According to the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, about 91,000 stateless people currently live in Estonia.
Is "true" properly used in the sentence if the Estonian passport and Estonian alien's passport are two different types of travel document? 