[REEL] Adoptee Seeks To Reclaim Taiwanese Citizenship

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Vanessa Miles, a 46-year-old Australian national who says she was born in Taiwan and trafficked to Australia as an infant, is protesting the interior ministry’s decision not to reinstate her citizenship.   But Taiwan’s household registration office says that Miles’ adoption was cancelled, and her household registration was revoked decades ago. Her original ID number has since been given to another person.    Taiwan’s interior ministry says Miles’ birth certificate cannot be verified, and that they cannot reinstate her citizenship until the document’s authenticity is proven.    The interior ministry has also suggested Miles undergo DNA testing with her biological parents—if they can be found—to prove her claim.    Diagnosed with a hereditary condition at 45, Miles was unable to provide the family medical history her doctors required. This realization, combined with a deep desire to reconnect with her roots, led her back to Taiwan.      Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel.    Reporter: Irene Lin   Videographers: Leon Lien/Devin Tsai  Video Editor: Alison Nguyen    #TaiwanPlusNews #Taiwan #Australia #Adoptee #Citizenship

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00:00I just want to know the name of my mother, so I can carry that with me and know whose

00:04daughter I am.

00:18So my understanding is that in October, I think it was October the 12th, 1983, and he

00:25said actually we didn't send the baby overseas, we cancelled the adoption.

00:31This is very problematic because nobody at that office checked whether this was true,

00:36they didn't ask where is the baby, they didn't send any advice to Australia to say that this

00:44was happening, they just cancelled the adoption.

00:47It really hurts me that he did this and that all these years later I am the one that has

00:53to prove what happened to me as a small baby.

01:05The next thing is that we can't do the final evidence.

01:11If we can't do the final evidence, we will recommend if we can use DNA to ensure

01:15it is to allow the children of the family or the family to ensure DNA to ensure that it is

01:23會是太大的問題

01:31上午早期的法令是

01:33在互證單會是依據

01:35是依據醫院開立的出身證明

01:37就可以幫他進行戶口的登記

01:41所以出身證明這件事情

01:44互證並沒有去查驗的權限

01:46在早期的法規

01:47如果他是犯陰案

01:49應該早期有個犯罪被害人的部分

01:51he will not be able to compare it to the data.

01:53In that year, if I had been able to get a child

01:58or my child was taken away,

02:00I want to have other people to save my DNA

02:03so that I can be able to compare it to the success.

02:11And then when I was approximately 45,

02:15I was diagnosed with a hereditary medical condition,

02:18which I think made me think a lot about my biological parents.

02:23But also every time you go to the doctor,

02:25they will ask you for your family history

02:27and I can't give them the answers, right?

02:30It's unfair and unreasonable

02:32that on top of all the questions I have about my biological family,

02:35I now have to fight to take back something that is rightfully mine.

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