KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 — The special officer to a former minister has been detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on suspicion of soliciting almost RM25,000 from an individual as an inducement to obtain an approval letter for a citizenship application.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will present the proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution to the Conference of Malay Rulers soon, in a bid to solve the citizenship issue plaguing the overseas-born children of Malaysian women with foreign spouses.

PUTRAJAYA, May 18 — Citizenship applications will be able to be processed faster when review applications and security screening results are made online, said National Registration Department (NRD) Director-General Zamri Misman.

PHNOM PENH, May 15 — Revenge will never be the reason should former national women’s hockey head coach Muhammad Dharma Raj Abdullah decide to accept the offer of becoming an Indonesian citizen.

KUALA TERENGGANU, April 5 — The Ministry of Home Affairs (KDN) has so far received 150,000 citizenship applications, including cases of stateless children, says Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — The Home Ministry (KDN) has thus far received a total of 688 applications for citizenship for children born overseas by Malaysian mothers married to foreigners.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 — The Home Ministry (KDN) is targeting to process at least 10,000 applications for citizenship this year, said Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

MACHANG, Feb 18 — The Home Ministry (KDN) is confident that amendments to the Federal Constitution to allow children born overseas to Malaysian women to be given citizenship can have a big impact on the ministry in dealing with the related matters.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 18 — The Cabinet has approved draft constitutional amendments to grant automatic citizenship to children born overseas to Malaysian mothers married to foreigners, according to two ministers.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 14 — Family Support & Welfare Selangor & Kuala Lumpur (Family Frontiers) and six Malaysian mothers have obtained leave to proceed with their appeal against a Court of Appeal’s ruling which denied automatic citizenship to children born overseas to Malaysian mothers with foreign spouses.

TUMPAT, Oct 26 — Following an 83-year wait, Wan Nab Ismail finally became a Malaysian citizen after the National Registration Department (JPN) director-general, Datuk Ruslin Jusoh, personally gave her a birth certificate and MyKad today.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 26 — The legal battle by a Sabah-born man and a 16-year-old girl to be given Malaysian citizenship is finally over as they are now recognised as Malaysian citzens.

MELAKA, Oct 18 — Senior citizen Khadijah Padzli’s eight-year struggle and endless wait to obtain citizenship for her adopted son, Muhammad Shaffiq Izudin Aziz Abdul Rahim, 10, ended in bliss when the application was finally approved and a certificate was issued today.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 11 — Only children born overseas to Malaysian fathers who are married to foreign spouses are entitled to get citizenship by operation of law, the Court of Appeal held.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 — The Dewan Negara will debate a motion related to the citizenship of children born abroad to Malaysian mothers this afternoon after getting the nod of its Deputy President Datuk Seri Mohamad Ali Mohamad.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 5 — The Court of Appeal in a 2-1 majority decision today ruled that the children born overseas to Malaysian mothers who are married to foreign spouses are not entitled by operation of law to be Malaysian citizens.

PUTRAJAYA, April 29 — Rohana Abdullah, the 22-year-old woman who was left by her Indonesian birth mother to be cared for by a Malaysian Chinese woman, shed tears of joy while accepting the letter granting her the Malaysian citizenship status from the Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin today.

LARUT, Jan 22 — The government has no problem issuing citizenship certificates to applicants if they can produce a valid marriage document, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 29 — Three mothers turned up at the National Registration Department (NRD), here, today to request for citizenship documents for their overseas-born children.

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 19 — The Federal Court today granted Malaysian citizenship to a 17-year-old teenager who was born in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur to an unknown mother and later adopted by a Malaysian couple.