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Deepan Budlakoti and Indian High Commission

Immigration Refugee Board: Budlakoti says he is not an official citizen of any country and is considered a "non-status" person living in Canada, according to CTV. Court documents state he was born in Ottawa in 1989 to Indian parents who worked for Indian High Commission officials. Deepan Budlakoti, 25, asked a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board on Monday to ease the restrictions of his release because he says they are psychologically harmful and violate his constitutional rights. He was not granted automatic citizenship. Ottawa tried to have him deported but in 2013 Indian officials refused to give him a travel permit because they did not recognize him as an Indian citizen, according to court documents. The federal government in 2011 declared Budlakoti inadmissible to remain in Canada after he was sentenced to more than three years in prison after being convicted of breaking and entering, weapons and drug trafficking, as well as the illegal possession of a firearm. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.