Local-born PR holders' rights not affected by citizenship amendments, says Saifuddin

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The right to citizenship of some 30,000 local-born permanent residents (PR) will not be affected by changes to the laws, says Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

He gave an assurance that the group's citizenship issues will be resolved.

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00:00As I have explained, there are two categories of permanent immigrants in Malaysia.

00:09One, those who are given an IPR and they have an entry permit and have a travel document from a foreign country.

00:20They have an immigration document.

00:24They are the first category.

00:28They are permanent immigrants in Malaysia.

00:32At the same time, they have a travel document from a foreign country.

00:36They have a passport from a foreign country.

00:40They have a birth certificate from a foreign country.

00:43But they live here, they are a permanent immigrant.

00:48Him and his partner.

00:51The second category is those who have a permanent immigrant status or an IPR

00:57but they do not have an entry permit or a travel document from a foreign country.

01:02They are considered to not have an immigration document.

01:08They have a birth certificate but they are considered to be a permanent immigrant.

01:16But they do not have an entry permit or an immigration document.

01:20So, the second category refers to those who are originally immigrants.

01:26Then, through the court process, they get their status through the immigration process.

01:37But they stop there.

01:39They do not ask to become a citizen.

01:42If they ask, we will proceed according to Article 15A.

01:45If they do not ask, they will become a permanent immigrant.

01:47So, there are two categories.

01:49Or, the PR Local Bonds are those who were born in Malaysia before independence, before 1957.

01:58They were born here but they never had a document.

02:03One more thing.

02:05They were born in Malaysia before independence, before 1963.

02:10The issue is that they do not have an entry permit or a travel document.

02:17That is the issue. It has to be differentiated.

02:20So, the main principle is that all children with a permanent immigrant status are the first category.

02:28That is, all foreigners.

02:32Are their children stateless when they were born here?

02:35The answer is no.

02:37According to the law, they are citizens of their parents' country.

02:44So, I say that it is the responsibility of the parents to report their children's birth

02:50in their respective countries.

02:53So that they can get their country's citizenship certificate.

02:58So, if their children were born here, their responsibility is to report their birth in their respective countries.

03:06Even though they are our PR, they are foreigners.

03:11So, the transfer of citizenship in accordance with the law

03:16is to prevent the children of permanent immigrants from having two citizenship.

03:22For the second category, the Malaysian government

03:26has given full commitment to ensure that individuals below this category

03:31who have a population of around 30,000

03:34who ask for citizenship is 10,000.

03:40This is what we want to resolve.

03:42I heard the discussion of the first round.

03:45I heard Kota Baru, Pago, Mua.

03:49I also heard Pasir Gudang, Segambut.

03:55Most of them touched on this matter.

03:58And what we want to focus on after this,

04:01I will make a round tomorrow.

04:03I will give a way out to this local bond PR.

04:09Because some of those who still disagree on this matter,

04:15I see that they mix up the three categories of local bond PR

04:23with foreign PR holders.

04:26I want to say that if local bond PR is around 30,000,

04:33whereas foreign PR is 7 times bigger than local bond PR.

04:43So if the current institution is local bond PR,

04:47the citizens will automatically lead to an unequal situation.

04:58So the focus of this meeting is to address the 30,000 people

05:04who ask for citizenship.

05:09And we will process and see whether there are 15 A or 91.

Local-born PR holders' rights not affected by citizenship amendments, says Saifuddin

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