Despite three citizenship applications under Article 15A of the Federal Constitution, all were rejected by the Ministry of Home Affairs, with the latest rejection in 2022 after an eight-year wait.
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Though she later became a wife and mother, one thing remained constant: for 17 years, she has remained stateless, hoping to regain her citizenship. Despite her parents not being officially married at the time of her birth, Yap was initially listed as a Malaysian citizen, unlike most children born to Malaysian fathers and foreign mothers out of wedlock who typically cannot automatically obtain Malaysian citizenship.From Malaysian To Stateless With A Stroke Of A Pen In 2005, when Yap was nine, her father obtained a second birth certificate due to the deterioration of the first one.
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