Deepan Budlakoti was born in Canada in 1989 and was automatically granted citizenship by the “law of soil.” When Canada eventually learned that his parents worked for India’s diplomatic staff, they refused to recognize his birthright citizenship. thewalrus.ca/deepan-budlako… 1/5
At twenty-one, Budlakoti suddenly found himself reclassified as a permanent resident. But by that point, he was saddled with a criminal record and because of the “serious criminality” of his conduct, there was an order to remove him from the country. thewalrus.ca/deepan-budlako… 2/5 
India, the country of Budlakoti’s parents’ birth, refused to accept him. It had no reason to—he was never its citizen. Where was he to go? Read the full story here: thewalrus.ca/deepan-budlako… 3/5
“No one else can even understand the full extent of what I’m going through,” Budlakoti says to writer @whotookadnan in a phone call from the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, where he has been in custody since 2017. Read about his legal limbo here: thewalrus.ca/deepan-budlako… 4/5
From the November edition of @thewalrus, writer Adnan Khan (@whotookadnan) looks at the case of Deepan Budlakoti, Canada’s refusal to acknowledge him as a citizen, and the “legal black hole” he continues to find himself in. thewalrus.ca/deepan-budlako… 5/5
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