Putrajaya told to honour pledge to recognise children born overseas to Malaysian women as citizens
Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin is urged to keep his word that the government will amend the constutition amendment to ‘facilitate citizenship by operation of law for overseas-born children of Malaysian women’. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 29, 2022.
FAMILY Frontiers Malaysia – a group that advocates the rights of foreign spouses in Malaysia today urged Putrajaya to honour its promise to amend the constitution to grant citizenship to children born overseas to Malaysian women. The group demanded that Putrajaya provide an update on the plan to introduce the amendment in this parliamentary session.
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