With citizenship in hand, 10-year-old can chase his football dream

The Star

After six years of applying for citizenship, 10-year-old Muhammad Danish Haiqal, finally got his approval letter from the Home Ministry.  His adoptive mother, Hazlina Hamzah has been applying for his citizenship since 2018.   The letter of approval for Muhammad Danish's citizenship was finally given to him on Thursday (July 18) in the presence of Tan Sri Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah and Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Thank you very much.

00:01Is this Haikal?

00:02Yes.

00:03Congratulations, Haikal.

00:07This is his mother.

00:09Today, I came to Sri Kelantan's flat.

00:11The purpose is to hand over the National Citizen's Certificate.

00:18Under the definition of 15A,

00:20which means that Haikal's brother is in the category of adopted child.

00:24A few days ago,

00:26there was a Tiktok post

00:30about Haikal's brother's National Citizen's Certificate.

00:35When I saw the request,

00:38in fact, in June,

00:40Haikal's brother was already granted the National Citizen's Certificate.

00:46So, whatever it is,

00:48when the news reached my office,

00:51I chose to come here.

00:53The National Citizen's Certificate is not only for Haikal's brother.

00:57Haikal's brother is one of eight siblings.

01:03He has eight siblings, all of them,

01:05from his mother.

01:07So, for all of them,

01:09his mother passed it on to someone else to take care of.

01:12So, when it is taken care of by someone else,

01:16in a situation where the document is incomplete,

01:21when it is taken care of by someone else,

01:23it means that he is categorized as an adopted child.

01:27Even so, if the caretaker requests for the adoption process.

01:31So, we are in contact with Haikal's mother,

01:35Mrs. Azlina.

01:37Are you still in contact with Haikal's biological mother?

01:40We were told that yes,

01:42her biological mother is still alive.

01:44Up until now, her biological mother

01:46does not have an identification card.

01:49She does not have an identification card either.

01:51So, my colleagues then

01:53made a late approval process.

01:57So, when the mother already has an identification card,

01:59at the same time, her eight siblings

02:01will be listed as National Citizens.

02:03We will issue them

02:05the National Citizen's Certificate and then

02:07the identification card.

02:08Compared to before,

02:10if we do not reach out to the adoptive mother,

02:13then all of them are adopted children.

02:15So, the most important thing is

02:18today's attendance shows that

02:20the authenticity of KDN,

02:22especially the Ministry of State Registration,

02:24that the issue of National Citizens

02:26is indeed our main issue.

02:28At the same time, the process

02:30to postpone the move

02:32of the institution

02:34under the title of National Citizens was continued.

02:42It will be brought to the budget session.

02:48How do you see the counter-proposal?

02:51I see the contents.

02:53I know that our proposal

02:55is to build nine things.

02:59The NGO has raised several things.

03:01I held a meeting and gave an explanation

03:03of the rationale or justification

03:05for each proposal that was brought.

03:08They also made a counter-proposal

03:11in the form of a term,

03:13like we use the term

03:16as a technical term.

03:21So, the important thing is

03:23my engagement with them.

03:25I am ready to listen.

03:27I established a number

03:29because they mentioned a number

03:31of children that they referred to

03:33as stateless.

03:35Of the 16,000, only 9,000 are left.

03:37I asked them to show the list

03:39with KDN

03:41because we can determine.

03:43The most important thing is

03:45the number is not their number.

03:47It must be the number of people

03:49who made the proposal.

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