Hamzah: Govt to take steps to amend Constitution on citizenship issue in favour of M'sian mums


KUALA LUMPUR: Steps will be taken to amend the Federal Constitution to allow Malaysian mothers the right to confer automatic citizenship on their children born outside Malaysia, says Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin.

"The ministry is proposing to take the matter up for a new government policy to amend the Constitution to facilitate Malaysian women married to foreign spouses whose children are born abroad," the Home Minister said during his ministerial reply on the Royal Address at the Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday (Sept 22).

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