2019 Statelessness & Citizenship Review travel with the family. 1(1) certificate was going to be challenged. Lost contact with client after asked client to obtain DNA evidence. Case 2: Father was Malaysian and mother was Chinese. Same situation where helping parents adopt child and trying to get new birth certificate that would say child is a citizen. Case 3: Church approached lawyer to help get Rohingya stateless child to Germany to obtain free medical treatment for a severe respiratory problem. There was no way of getting the baby to travel because she had no access to travel documents and UNHCR was not issuing the documents to attest the baby was a refugee. Baby stayed in Malaysia and received help with the Church. 3L Lawyer that does pro bono statelessness work. With law firm has done about 10 pro bono cases and given a lot of summary advice. Case 4: Child born before parents married. Father Malaysian (Indian descent) and mother is Thai. Helped with getting declaration of legitimacy. Four year ordeal and child may not be able to go to school. Thai mother wants to go back to Thailand but the child doesn’t want to. Marriage is on the rocks. Have done cases involving Malay Muslim, Chinese and Indian. Right now all cases dealing with Chinese who have married foreign women from Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines. Case 1: Parents unmarried. Father Malaysian citizen (Indian descent) and mother was Filipino and could not be traced (not in child’s life). Originally had birth certificate said citizen but when tried to get passport, was issued another birth certificate that said not citizen. Application for citizenship denied and was appealed. High Court granted citizenship and appeal by government rejected. Case 2: Father is Malaysian (Chinese descent) and mother is Filipino. Case where parents not married and despite DNA evidence, during legitimacy 130