17yo M’sian With 3 Birth Certificates Loses Citizenship, Is Now Trying To Locate Birth Mother For Help

A Malaysian girl has lost her citizenship after a major mix up with her birth certificate. Now, the 17-year-old girl apparently has 3 birth certificates and no Identity Card (IC) because of this issue.

With that, she is now looking for her birth mother in hopes that she would be able to help her settle this matter once and for all, and that she could get her citizenship back.

林開欣 took to her Facebook page to share the story of how this all happened.

“September 27, 2006. 1:09pm. There was a baby girl, that was me, who was abandoned at the Klinik Bersalin Sunway, KL, and I have been raised by my adoptive mother since then.”

“When I was doing my IC when I was 12-years-old, my adoptive mother and I learned that the government had sent us a letter as early as in 2009, asking us to re-register (her birth certificate), but we did not receive that letter,” she wrote.

According to a report by Sin Chew Daily, the National Registration Department (JPN) had, at that time, told her and her adoptive mother that they would need to go to their Putrajaya branch for further processes.

When they did, JPN Putrajaya informed them that they has to wait as the authorities checked on the then 12-year-old 林開欣’s birth certificate. That wait lasted 4 years, until she turned 16-years-old.

That was when she received her second birth certificate with her birth parents’ details left blank as it was ‘unobtained’, and she lost her citizenship.

In an attempt to help her regain her status as a Malaysian citizen, her adoptive parents then went through an adoption process at the beginning of this year, and she received a third birth certificate through the adoption. But, she still didn’t manage to regain her citizenship.

Without an IC, she is unable to apply for a driving license or open a bank account. At her educational institute, she is now being viewed as a foreign student and has to pay a foreign student’s tuition.

Hence why she and her adoptive mother are doing their best to locate her birth mother 

“My adoptive mother wants to try her luck to find my biological mother, because according to government officials, everything will be easier once we find my biological mother.”

“My adoptive mother hopes that if my biological mother reads this, she can contact us and (my adoptive mother will) be grateful to my biological mother,” she added.

Due to something that isn’t even her fault, she had lost her status as a Malaysian citizen.

We genuinely hope that she and her adoptive mother (who clearly loves her very much), will manage to find her birth mother and all of these issues will be resolved.

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