POKOK SENA, Aug 26 — Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail as we speak dismissed allegations that his ministry is within the technique of granting Malaysian citizenship on a big scale to foreigners, particularly from China.
Without elaborating on the allegations, Saifuddin Nasution described them as horrible accusations and not using a sense of duty, which had an influence on the ministry’s efforts to resolve the present citizenship software challenge.
“This is what we’re doing and it isn’t straightforward, as a result of this challenge of citizenship is very delicate, however I reject fully the accusation that this can be a technique of granting citizenship to foreigners, particularly from China.
“Give us the area to resolve the difficulty of the way forward for youngsters from Malaysian households whose marriage registration course of will not be accomplished accordingly, and now there are a number of issues, and we would like to assist,” he stated.
He stated this to reporters after presenting a donation for the acquisition of a hearse to Ar-Raudhah Mosque, Sungai Durian right here as we speak.
At the occasion, Saifuddin Nasution additionally introduced the citizenship software approval letter to Khatanak Sayyan, 19, who beforehand had no id doc since delivery.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (left) presents the citizenship software approval letter to Khatanak Sayyan (centre) at Sungai Durian in Pokok Sena August 26, 2023. — eNM pic
Commenting additional, Saifuddin Nasution stated that there have been greater than 140,000 citizenship purposes obtained by his ministry, of which 9,000 had been processed, together with purposes that had been permitted.
He added that if the information associated to the granting of citizenship is twisted and disseminated, it may give a detrimental notion of his ministry’s efforts to resolve citizenship points, together with many which had been brought on by delays in marriage registration.
“There had been varied causes for this; typically mother and father fail to instantly register a wedding, whereas within the case of citizenship, the essential prerequisite doc is the wedding certificates. When there’s a lack of that, over time, issues come up for the kids.
“So, once they (mother and father) strive to right that, they submit the applying and it takes a very long time (to be processed), on this case, 19 years, however there are 20 years, 15 years is regular, additionally 12 years. So that’s what I stated, that the aim of granting, simplifying the approval for a case corresponding to this, Malaysian mother and father and kids had been born right here,” he stated.
Previously, the National Registration Department (NRD) was reported to have denied claims that about 54,000 Chinese nationals are within the technique of being granted Malaysian citizenship, supposedly to turn into DAP voters. — eNM
