Was the birth certificate changed to 'non-citizen'?
Heartbreaking Lessons from Child Adoption and Citizenship Cases
📌 Key content
- 12 years of the ‘citizen’ illusion: How the concealment on your birth certificate at birth can plant an identity risk for your child for 12 years?
- Unexpected twist: When I went to UTC at age 12 to get my MyKad, the JPN officer got suspicious because of my looks and skin color and started an investigation.
- Court of Appeal ruling: Why publishing a notice to find someone and the High Court’s sympathy still can’t change things? The logic of blood ties and the law that ‘doesn’t allow benefiting from mistakes’.
- Warning to parents: steer clear of adoption traps, and don’t let the ‘well-intentioned lies’ from back then become a lifelong regret for your child.
⚖️ 3 Key Legal Takeaways from This Case
- Section 28 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1957
- JPN has the legal duty and authority to check the accuracy of information, and if any false statements are found, it has the right to correct the registry at any time.
- Adoption ≠ Having Citizenship
- Completing the legal adoption process under the ‘1952 Adoption Act’ only establishes a legal parent-child relationship; it doesn’t mean the child automatically gets Malaysian bloodline or nationality.
- The burden of proof is on the applicant
- According to Article 14(1)(b) of the Federal Constitution (Jus Sanguinis), parents are responsible for proving that their child didn’t have any other nationality at birth; at the same time, the court strictly prohibits anyone from benefiting from their own false statements or mistakes.
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