Stateless for a year and a half: Adnan Sami Khan

Singer Adnan Sami Khan, who moved to India from Pakistan and took citizenship there, has said that his life has been so ‘difficult’ that if he had told Bollywood writers, they would have laughed and told him that he made up stories. are kept

According to the newspaper Indian Express, Adnan Sami Khan has talked about his 18-year journey to get Indian citizenship in his latest interview.

He revealed that the common people do not even know half of the situations he went through.

In an interview in ‘The Bombay Journey Series’ of digital media platform ‘Mashable India’, Adnan Sami said that his journey to get Indian citizenship was full of ups and downs and many failures.

He said he was rejected on two occasions and remained ‘stateless’ for over a year.

According to Adnan Sami: ‘People think it must be easy because I’m a celebrity. But it is not easy. There was no such thing as an easy solution to a problem. You have to do everything. It’s just that you (the public) found out overnight. One morning you wake up and find out through the newspaper that you have got Indian citizenship.’

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Adnan Sami continued his speech and said that it took me 18 years but what I am trying to say here is that during these 18 years I did not talk about this to the world. I was rejected twice. I had to give up my original citizenship and for some time I was stateless. For a year and a half I had no connection with any country. A passport is just a document but I did not belong to any country and in that case, I could not travel. There was nothing I could do.’

Adnan Sami Khan was born in the UK and held Pakistani citizenship. He moved to India in 2001 where he got citizenship in 2016.