15.03.2025

Expedite citizenship amendment for mothers

A court settlement now allows affected mothers to apply for citizenship for their under-18 overseas-born children, but the amendment passed in 2023 remains ungazetted.

MCA’s women’s wing has urged the government to expedite gazetting a constitutional amendment bill passed last year that would give Malaysian mothers the equal right to confer automatic citizenship on children born overseas.

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