Dolly Vadalia was just 18 days old when she and her parents had to flee their home in the Xai Xai province of Mozambique due to a devastating flood in 2000. Her parents, eager to rush to safety, could not submit her birth certificate at the Indian consulate there. Little did they know that this would leave their daughter stateless. On April 30, the Gujarat High Court turned down Dolly’s plea for an Indian passport, stating that she had “failed to prove her Indian citizenship” by way of birth or descent. Mozambique authorities have refused to grant her a passport because she did not return to the country before the emergency certificate, which enabled the family to leave during the flood, expired. Now 26, Dolly is a trained dietician and wants to join her husband in Canada. But she cannot do so without a passport. The government of India has twice rejected her application for an Indian passport.…