M’sian women with foreign spouses can now get citizenship for babies born abroad

PUTRAJAYA: The Home Ministry has come up with a mechanism that will help Malaysian women married to foreigners obtain citizenship for their children who are born abroad, said its minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.

Hishammuddin said there were no provisions under the Federal Constitution that allowed children born overseas to get Malaysian citizenships if their mothers were Malaysians married to foreigners.