PUTRAJAYA, June 22 — Malaysian mothers have waited years to see if the Malaysian government would recognise their children born overseas as citizens.
The High Court in September 2021 decided in a lawsuit that the Federal Constitution should be interpreted to enable Malaysian mothers to pass on their citizenship to their children born overseas. They would be able to use the same Article 14 provisions that Malaysian men have been using to automatically pass on citizenship to their overseas-born children.
Ummal Remiza Khaja Mohideen speaks to the media outside the National Registration Department headquarters in Putrajaya on June 10, 2022. — Picture by Choo Choy MayUmmal Remiza Khaja Mohideen, 38, a Kedah native based in Kuala Lumpur, had moved to Qatar previously for work and married her Nigerian husband whom she met there.
Apart from being told this month that the latest application filed this March was still being processed, she noted that the NRD officer had also said: “It all also depends on the verdict coming this June 22.” Her daughter’s citizenship application was filed in 2016 under Article 15 at the Consulate General of Malaysia at Frankfurt, but there was no outcome until 2021 when the government rejected it without giving reasons. She filed a new citizenship application this March.
“So anytime when the school says ‘sorry the school is full, we can’t accept’, so either I will have to go through the same thing and find another school for her or I try to get her in an international school, or if I can’t afford, then that’s it for us. “When I was overseas, the embassy there, they bluntly tell us I cannot apply for anything, I’m not entitled, only can follow the father’s citizenship no matter what, so I couldn’t even submit it overseas,” she said, adding that she found out later that she could actually still submit applications overseas for Malaysian citizenship if her child was less than a year old.
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