Volleyball player denied citizenship over ‘technicality’


Please help me: Jia Yi (left) showing his birth certificate, which shows that he is not a citizen as his father Ban Guan holds his son’s application for citizenship which he submitted at the NRD in Taiping.

TAIPING: All 11-year-old Tan Jia Yi wants is to be a Malaysian citizen.

Born to a Malaysian father and Indonesian mother, Jia Yi, who turns 12 in a few months’ time, was denied citizenship by the National Registration Department (NRD) as he was born a day before his parents registered their marriage.

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