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Citizenship despair for boy, 8, caught in a legal catch-22

While there was joy for the three stateless children who obtained citizenship from the Home minister today, there was only despair for the father of an eight-year-old boy born to a Malaysian father and Filipino mother.

The Court of Appeal refused to grant Malaysian citizenship to the boy identified only as “B” and who will turn nine in September ruling that he has a Philippines passport and that Malaysians cannot have dual citizenship.

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