HOLDERS of IMM13 documents – passes issued mainly to Filipino refugees and their families who fled to Sabah following the unrest in the Philippines in the 1970s – can apply for permanent resident status but not citizenship, said Home Minister Datuk Azmi Khalid said.
The issuance of a PR was on a case-by-case basis, he said in reply to a suggestion by Madius Wilfred Tangau (BN–Tuaran) that a committee be set up to tackle the problem of refugees.
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