{"id":298,"date":"2007-06-11T13:45:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T05:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/06\/11\/mum-missing-link-to-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T06:33:00","slug":"mum-missing-link-to-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/06\/11\/mum-missing-link-to-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum ‘missing link’ to citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mum ‘missing link’ to citizenship
By : Sonia Ramachandran <\/p>\n

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PETALING JAYA: He roams the streets with a picture of a woman holding a baby, asking everyone he meets if they have seen her. <\/p>\n

Meet David Jeyaraj, who is desperately looking for his mother, Anbaiakie Muthan. <\/p>\n

The 25-year-old is stateless, and unless he can find her he will remain so.<\/p>\n

Anbaiakie delivered Jeyaraj at the Klang General Hospital (now the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital) on Aug 10, 1982. <\/p>\n

She was a resident of the Bethany Home in Perak. After he was born, Anbaiakie took him in search of her mother in Kulim, Kedah, only to find she had died.
She then moved in with her mother’s neighbours, Govindarajoo Veerasamy and Letchumi Vegadasam. <\/p>\n

After a while, Anbaiakie signed a consent of adoption order and left Jeyaraj behind. On the order, her name is spelt Anbaiakie Muthan but Jeyaraj’s birth certificate shows his mother’s name as Anbaiakie Moton. <\/p>\n

The columns for identification card numbers and the name of his father state "no information available". <\/p>\n

That is the root of Jeyaraj’s problems. When he was 12 he was issued a renewable green IC (a temporary resident identification card), but the government stopped issuing temporary identity cards in 2003. <\/p>\n

"I went to the National Registration Department (NRD) in Alor Star, and they told me to go to Putrajaya. In Putrajaya they told me to bring my biological mother. They said she has to come and say, ‘this is my son’." <\/p>\n

Since then, Jeyaraj, who obtained 6 As in the PMR examination and has a diploma in computers, has been placing advertisements in Tamil newspapers and on the Internet, but to no avail.<\/p>\n

Although his birth certificate did not state Anbaiakie’s IC number, the adoption order did. With that, Jeyaraj, along with Era Consumer, managed to trace Anbaiakie to a shelter in Kuala Lumpur, but she had left. <\/p>\n

He also discovered that Anbaiakie had given birth to two daughters.<\/p>\n

From the shelter’s administrator he got a photograph of Anbaiakie, and with that picture Jeyaraj has been roaming the streets looking for his mother. <\/p>\n

Jeyaraj said he has followed all the NRD’s instructions, including doing a search on his mother, getting letters from the hospital where he was born and the shelter his mother was in, as well as a letter from the director of Bethany at that time, but they still refused to give him a Malaysian IC. <\/p>\n

"I was born here and I haven’t done anything wrong, yet I’m stateless in my own country." <\/p>\n

Era Consumer director Nanthini Ramalo, who has been handling Jeyaraj’s case, said the NRD should give a person citizenship if he can provide evidence that he was born in the country. <\/p>\n

The Second Schedule of the Federal Constitution provides for citizenship by operation of law for those who are born here and are not a citizen of any other country.<\/p>\n

Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Tan Chai Ho said Jeyaraj needs to appeal to NRD director-general Datuk Abdul Halim Muhammad to get his matter resolved. <\/p>\n

"He has to submit all his documents and call forward all his witnesses and the NRD will investigate. After the investigation an NRD committee will look into his status," he said.<\/p>\n

Asked what would be the first thing he would do if he were to get an IC, Jeyaraj said: "I will cry." <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mum ‘missing link’ to citizenshipBy : Sonia Ramachandran source PETALING JAYA: He roams the streets with a picture of a woman holding a baby, asking everyone he meets if they have seen her. Meet David Jeyaraj, who is desperately looking for his mother, Anbaiakie Muthan. The 25-year-old is stateless, and unless he can find her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-perak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}