Your Rights come first before the Law, if the Law violates your Universal Declaration of Human Rights rights it is not valid and can be contested successfully in the constitutional court or supreme court.
Just as how a person cant kill you, steal from you or rape you just because you jumped the boarder, you still have your fundamental human rights because fundamental human rights are universal.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality, nor denied the right to change his nationality. (Article 15, Universal Declaration of Human Rights). You do not need any papers to prove anything because we are all born free and Equal, No person can prove where you come from regardless of which languages you speak and which ones you don't speak.
The Right to a Nationality
The right to a nationality is a fundamental human right. It implies the right of each individual to acquire, change and retain a nationality.International human rights law provides that the right of States to decide who their nationals are is not absolute and, in particular, States must comply with their human rights obligations concerning the granting and loss of nationality.
The right is enshrined in Article 24 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:
1. Every child shall have, without any discrimination as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, national or social origin, property or birth, the right to such measures of protection as are required by his status as a minor, on the part of his family, society and the State.
2. Every child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have a name.
3. Every child has the right to acquire a nationality.
In its General Comments No 17 of 1989, the Human Rights Committee comments on the rights of the child: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/comments.htm.
It is contained in Articles 7 and 8 in the Convention on the Rights of the Child:
Article 7
1. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and. as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.
2. States Parties shall ensure the implementation of these rights in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments in this field, in particular where the child would otherwise be stateless.
Article 8
1. States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name and family relations as recognized by law without unlawful interference.
2. Where a child is illegally deprived of some or all of the elements of his or her identity, States Parties shall provide appropriate assistance and protection, with a view to re-establishing speedily his or her identity.
It is also contained in Article 29 of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families:
Each child of a migrant worker shall have the right to a name, to registration of birth and to a nationality.
It is also contained in Article 6 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment:
1. Upon being satisfied, after an examination of information available to it, that the circumstances so warrant, any State Party in whose territory a person alleged to have committed any offence referred to in article 4 is present shall take him into custody or take other legal measures to ensure his presence. The custody and other legal measures shall be as provided in the law of that State but may be continued only for such time as is necessary to enable any criminal or extradition proceedings to be instituted.
2. Such State shall immediately make a preliminary inquiry into the facts.
3. Any person in custody pursuant to paragraph 1 of this article shall be assisted in communicating immediately with the nearest appropriate representative of the State of which he is a national, or, if he is a stateless person, with the representative of the State where he usually resides.
4. When a State, pursuant to this article, has taken a person into custody, it shall immediately notify the States referred to in article 5, paragraph 1, of the fact that such person is in custody and of the circumstances which warrant his detention. The State which makes the preliminary inquiry contemplated in paragraph 2 of this article shall promptly report its findings to the said States and shall indicate whether it intends to exercise jurisdiction.Dr Clarence
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