Homegrown Statelessness in Malaysia should be taken as substantiated simply by the stateless person’s sworn testimony or affidavit declaration. Where such evidence is doubted, it becomes state responsibility to inquire with other states as to the status of a person before denying citizenship. Thus, the paper proposes that for administratively stateless persons, the issue of statelessness is not as problematic as it seems. For administratively stateless persons, it is a matter of the government implementing the law in a way that gives them their entitled recognition as citizens on paper. While the judiciary should be wary of projecting the status of citizen on a person who has not actually or legally acquired citizenship, in this case, it is not simply the legal entitlement that gives weight to the claim to citizenship by five categories of stateless persons in Malaysia — it is also the genuine, effective and substantial link presented by each of the five groups that tips the balance towards their entitlement to citizenship. It is my hope then, by writing this paper, that lawmakers and policy makers alike look more closely at who is stateless in Malaysia and welcome their fellow compatriots not only socially but legally. 125