PUTRAJAYA: Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail today rejected concerns that the government’s proposed constitutional amendments regarding citizenship would cause more foundlings to be stateless in Malaysia.
Saifuddin Nasution said that he welcomes feedback from all parties, but asked that they also consider his perspective on this matter.“Under Article 15A is an application by registration in the category, one, an illegitimate child, where the parent is not yet official as a husband and wife, the child is born first.
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“I still continue with my briefing with Perikatan Nasional, I answer all the things they raised. I present the purpose of the application and so on,” he said.When proposing the amendments last October, the government said it would address problems plaguing foreign-born children of Malaysian women with non-citizen husbands, who do not automatically gain citizenship, unlike the offspring of Malaysian men in similar circumstances.
The amendment that would affect foundlings and abandoned children involves Section 19B, Part III of the Second Schedule which sought to amend from citizenship by “operation of law” to citizenship by “registration”.
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