• 6 months ago
Priority in solving citizenship applications has been given to cases involving illegitimate and adopted children under Article 15A of the Federal Constitution, says Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

He said this is because applications involving these two categories were the highest so far, followed by the category of children born abroad to Malaysian women married to foreigners.

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00:00The last question is about the issue of the citizens, maybe you can tell us a little bit about the KPI, the Ministry of Home Affairs, in solving this problem.
00:09My main focus now is the children born outside the marriage alliance.
00:15The second category is the request of the citizens involving adopted children.
00:21The third category is children born abroad from the mother of the citizens, but the father is not a citizen.
00:29These three categories are the highest number of requests.
00:34Actually, it can be solved by using the existing formula in the Ministry of Home Affairs, which is 15A.
00:42There are very few requests under naturalization, very, very few.
00:47So when I look at the request data profile, I found that the number of children born outside the marriage alliance is high.
00:55So I think these children don't need to be punished above 8,000 fathers.
01:00Therefore, my advice to the citizens of KPN is an immediate process.
01:06Therefore, we set our KPI for last year, we set the KPI at 14,000.
01:15We reached it on December 4, 2023.
01:19And now we have entered the sixth month.
01:24And the number is already more than 15,000.

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