Amendments to law on kids born abroad to be tabled in September


KUALA LUMPUR: Amendments to the law will be tabled in Parliament this September to allow “a parent” of a child born abroad to apply for his citizenship, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

“We will be tabling amendments to the Federal Constitution to replace the words ‘whose father’ in Part I and Part II of the Second Schedule with the words ‘at least one of the parents’,” the Prime Minister announced at the opening of the International Malaysia Law Conference here yesterday.

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