2019 14S Statelessness & Citizenship Review (Chinese) and Thai mother. Mother (30 yo) who is stateless and has two stateless children. mother is Thai. Mother’s mother is Indian descent but Malaysian citizenship. On birth certificate, no info about father. Father unknown Mother is Malaysian citizen (Indian descent). She has three siblings who have Malaysian citizenship. Father is Malaysian of Indian descent and mother who was adopted and did not possess a birth certificate or IC. 15S 63 year old woman who has permanent residence but no citizenship. 16S 33 year old woman who was not born in a hospital and not issued a birth certificate at birth (1985). 17S Adopted child who had acquired birth certificate from doctor from clinic (fraudulent document). Chinese adopted parents. Biological mother was Chinese and not married. Not sure what biological father was. 18S Child’s birth registered late because marriage registered late. Father is Malaysian (Chinese) and mother is Indonesian from Bali. and tried to register her birth. Had issues since birth certificate stated citizenship unknown. Mother’s birth certificate clearly states mother is citizen. 1(1) Indian. Lost her birth certificate and was not able to get a new one. Indian. Had no birth certificate until 2009. Could not get one since her mother did not have any documents. Four other siblings have citizenship despite having same parents. Parents unknowingly acquired fraudulent birth certificate from clinic when child was adopted. When child tried to get IC at 12, birth certificate was seized. Mother has been trying to register the child for some time but has been waiting. Indian. Chinese. ChineseIndonesian. Table 3: Lawyers. Paralegals, NGO representatives and Academics Interviewed Anonym Profession ous Indicator PARALEGALS 1PL Day job is sales person but volunteers with local political office to help stateless persons. Encounters with stateless persons Had worked in a MP’s office for a number of years where constituents came to ask for help to get citizenship. Has seen 50 cases in 9 years with only approximately 20% success rate. Brought many stateless 128 Cases Case 1: Woman is 7th child in a family who wanted to get married but could not because had no documentation. After a lot of work obtaining documentation for hospital she was born in, she was able to get identity documents.