KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 — A Perak-born stateless woman is overjoyed to finally be officially recognised as a Malaysian at the age of 68, after collecting her proof of Malaysian...
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 — A Perak-born stateless woman is overjoyed to finally be officially recognised as a Malaysian at the age of 68, after collecting her proof of Malaysian citizenship and her blue Malaysian identity card — otherwise known as MyKad and only issued to Malaysian citizens — just a few days after Malaysia Day.
The very first thing that the woman wanted to do after getting a Malaysian identity card was to get a Malaysian passport, which she did on the same day as her collection of the MyKad at the National Registration Department’s Putrajaya headquarters. She had to work during her teenage years to survive as times were hard. Having married at age 19 to her stateless husband who had permanent resident status, the woman had never thought about her own citizenship status while fully focused on raising their seven children.
Under Article 19, the Malaysian government may choose to approve applications to be a naturalised citizen if satisfied that the applicant aged at least 21 is of “good character”, has “adequate knowledge” of the Malay language, has lived in Malaysia at least 10 years — within 12 years before the application — and intends to live permanently in Malaysia if naturalised.
Larissa said the woman on July 5 made a citizenship application under Article 16 at the NRD’s Jalan Duta office and was interviewed the next day at the same office. “It’s indeed sad that it had to take a case to be filed in court to get Malaysian citizenship less than two months from an application — a citizenship which should have been hers long ago. We often have to file cases in court to get the attention of the relevant ministries. However, not every stateless person has the relevant resources to do so.
She had through her lawyer argued that she fulfills either clause 125 or 125 of the Federation of Malaya Agreement 1948 to be a citizen of then-Malaya under the law, namely that she was either a subject of the ruler of any state or she was born in Malaya and born a citizen of the UK and colonies and that one of her parents was born in Malaya.
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