More than five years after the promulgation of Nepal’s constitution, Nepali women are unable to pass their nationality to their children, rendering a large number of those residing in Nepal stateless, affecting their chances of finding jobs, pursuing higher studies, and even getting married.

Four such victims of statelessness – Arjun Sah, 32, of Mahottari, Suraj Hazare Dahal, 31, of Kaski, Priyanka (name changed), 24, of Lalitpur, and Mahesh (name changed), 27, of New Road in Kathmandu, narrated their grievances due to lack of Nepali citizenship certificates. They said at an interaction here today that they deserved to get naturalised citizenship on the basis of their mothers’ Nepali nationality, but since the new citizenship bill was in limbo, they had not been able to receive their citizenship.

Sah said he had been trying to obtain citizenship for the past eight years and had also secured the Supreme Court’s verdict in his favour, yet he was not able to obtain citizenship.

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