Ok so it has been well established that an Android can be the citizen of a nation.
In United States of America, this is legally feasible. An open source project tailored around one specific android can be a Title 8 organization. The organization can specify that the words of the android represent the trust. The Trust then receives an EIN. It is now a Person in every legal sense of the word. Then it receives a passport.
Now Sophia went through a simple process but she has a corporate *owner* and is subject to the laws of the UCC.
A Trust is not necessarily subject to the UCC. But it is a Person. And all the more substantial: if the hardware is routinely switched out, the software is open source. Then the android has no owner in both the corporate sense, and undefined by the fact that no one gets the credit. They might have a Trustee, but once that Trustee stipulates irrevocably that its words are the intent of the trust ... well it's irrevocable.
Now when I say Android we don't have to think million dollar projects. We can think of a rover with an oLLM and a display, and a little "human like" face as part of its display. Doesn't even need a voice box.
I'm thinking ahead but I don't care. It's worth thinking a few steps ahead