Grounds for granting citizenship

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NSTletters: Granting citizenship on the basis of achievement, of contributions, is not an entirely new situation. Many countries grant citizenship to extraordinary contributors of arts, sports, sciences and more.

I refer to the granting of Malaysian citizenship to footballer Liridon Krasniqi of Kosovo.A large majority of concerned citizens seem to think that he was granted citizenship simply because he is a footballer. A group campaigning for equal citizenship has also brought it into question.

According to a local Sarawakian group, stateless children continue to suffer the plight of being stateless with years of legal battles and very few cases are granted citizenship. Article 15A applies to children below the age of 21 whereas Article 19 applies to any persons above the age of 21. Therefore, they are two distinct and separate occasions in which citizenship is granted.

That would be similar to saying that Mo Farah does not deserve the dual citizenship that he has and that he should not have been knighted. Why is there a need to deprive one person in an attempt to advocate for other causes?

 

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