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Citizenship granted after years of waiting

SARIKEI: Shirley Ling Jing Shu’s dream of attaining citizenship and MyKad has finally become a reality. Her application has been approved by the Ministry of Home Affairs (KDN) after years of going through various processes and procedures. Her father, Ling Chin Chuan, stated that he had submitted his daughter’s citizenship application for many years without […]

Long wait over, Bong Shi Hui granted citizenship

KUCHING: Bong Shi Hui, a 24-year-old who was adopted by Kong Nguh Shan and Bong Kong Jin in 2017, has finally received approval for her citizenship after a five-year wait. In 2018, her adoptive parents submitted a citizenship application for Bong under Article 15A at the National Registration Department (JPN) Sarawak. Bong expressed her immense […]

Sullied sovereigns

To dare a thought is to risk being wrong. – James Dale Davidson, American investment writer Your first contract with government is triggered by your birth certificate. Your inalienable sovereign status denies you a certificate of conception that becomes irrelevant in the cacophony of citizenship. You may be a sovereign inside the womb, but you […]

The ombudsman

If you constantly have to play ombudsman for your beloved, you’re in a co-dependent prison of your own making. People will keep doing what they can get away with.  – Luvvie Ajayi, Nigerian-American author and speaker Sarawak has done it again! This time it is the ombudsman. The ombudsman: a word that may not roll […]

Automatic citizenship gives justice to children

KUCHING: The proposal to amend the Federal Constitution to enable children born abroad to Malaysian mothers to gain automatic Malaysian citizenship gives justice to these children. In stating this, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri said that the issue with regard to citizenship has often been raised especially by many affected […]

Reactivation of special panel to tackle citizenship issues in Sarawak

KUCHING: The reactivation of the special committee under Point 15A of the Federal Constitution will help tackle citizenship issues in Sarawak. Minister of Home Affairs Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution stressed his commitment in addressing the issue during a meeting with Minister of Women, Early Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah. Fatimah and […]

Fatimah hopes Special Committee on Citizenship will continue

KUCHING: Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah is hoping that the newly appointed Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail will revive the setting up of the Special Committee on Citizenship under Article 15A of the Federal Constitution (FC). The state Women, Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development Minister said in a statement yesterday that she would pay […]

Citizenship denial: MPs can bring about change

KUCHING: Sarawakians MPs should be persuaded to introduce a motion for constitutional amendments that will allow children born overseas to Malaysian women with foreign spouses to automatically become Malaysian citizens. “The Attorney-General stated that the problem of Malaysian women’s citizenship applications being denied for children they have had with foreign spouses abroad could be solved […]

Make it easier to obtain citizenship

KUCHING: The process of obtaining citizenship should be simplified, said a local non-governmental organisation (NGO). Persatuan Pembangunan Insan Sarawak (PPIS) president Manjeet Kaur Sidhu said the whole process is tedious and appealed to the relevant departments to simplify the citizenship application procedures. “I have handled almost 100 of such cases and there is a lot […]

Siblings on cloud nine after receiving long-awaited identification cards

BY NEVILLE TIMOTHY SANDERS & ANNABELL NAJA TOMMY KUCHING: Siblings Anastasia and Jones Bejie have finally received their identification cards (IC) after their pleas went viral on social media. The duo gained prominence earlier this year when they shared their struggles of living in Kuching without identification cards, which ultimately grabbed the attention of the […]