GUA MUSANG: The Home Ministry has approved nearly 14,000 citizenship applications to date, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
The Home Minister said that, based on data collected since 2013, 75% of these approvals fall under Article 15A of the Federal Constitution, which involves illegitimate children, adopted children, and foster children.
“The remaining cases fall under Article 15(2) of the Federal Constitution, such as those advocated by Family Frontiers (Malaysia). This includes Malaysian women’s children born abroad because their husbands are foreigners.
“This is temporary while we work on amending the constitution to allow these children to acquire citizenship automatically or through legal enforcement.
“In the second case, foreign wives married to local husbands can also apply for citizenship after seven years. They marry here, live here, and raise their families here. Therefore, they apply for citizenship, and this is another category that receives approval,” he said.
He told this to reporters after attending a goodwill programme here Thursday. – Bernama
