KUALA LUMPUR, April 5 — The High Court today declared that 24-year-old Nalvin Dhillon — who was born to a Malaysian father and Filipino mother — a Malaysian citizen under the country’s Federal Constitution as he was not born a citizen of any other country, finally putting an end to years of being stateless.
“For the aforesaid reasons, I am making a declaration that the plaintiff is a Malaysian citizen by operation of law under Article 14 of the FC read together with Section 1 of Part II of the Second Schedule of the FC. Nalvin was represented by lawyer Larissa Ann Louis, while the three respondents were represented by senior federal counsel Nik Isfahanie Tasnim.
In the same year, Nalvin’s father successfully applied for a Malaysian passport for Nalvin and he was granted Malaysian citizenship status in his new travel document which he used to travel to Australia.
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