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Why is the racial and religious bigoted Umno youth chief Dr Akmal “Dr Ham/I Am Malay First” Saleh so quiet and “MIA” (Missing In Action) on the citizenship issue?
When foreigners are treated better or given priority in citizenship than those born in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 28, 2025: The so-called Madani Unity Government (UG)’s appeal against the Appeals Court granting of citizenship to six stateless family members clearly shows the height of hypocrisy and skewered justice of the UG.
While it still continues to defend the granting of citizenship to seven foreign footballers with the use of falsification of birth certificates submitted by the cheating Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) officials, many of those born in Malaysia continue to remain stateless for decades.
Isn’t it clear that the National Registration Department (NRD, also read as the UG) issues or approves citizenship based on its whim and fancy, upholding injustice and fairness?
Or is it, selective justice by the NRD? (Below are two stateless cases showing different decisions on appeals by the NRD)
Clearly, foreigners are better treated than those born in Malaysia as the UG has no respect for automatic Malaysian citizenship (or by operation of law) for all born in Malaysia.
There are also many born in Sabah who are stateless and they go to the polls tomorrow to elect their government for the next five years.
This is a comment plucked from Facebook:
Top contributor
Yes.. 3-4 generations but Home Ministry adamant about not giving citizenship… but the half-baked, unelected minister will give fraudulent citizenships to footballers..
No News Is Bad News reproduces below news reports on the stateless Malaysian-born.
Appeals Court upholds ruling granting citizenship to 6 stateless family members
By Bernama
November 26, 2025 @ 10:27pm
Pic for illutration purposes only
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal here today upheld a High Court decision granting Malaysian citizenship to six stateless members of the same family spanning three generations.
A three-man bench comprising Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Datuk Azizah Nawawi, Court of Appeal judges Datuk Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali and Datuk Azhahari Kamal Ramli dismissed, without costs, the appeals brought by the Registrar of Births and Deaths, Registrar-General of Births and Deaths, Director-General of National Registration, Minister of Home Affairs and the Government of Malaysia.
Justice Mohd Nazlan, who delivered the court's unanimous decision online, said K. Kamaladevi, her two children, and her three grandchildren had successfully established their case for citizenship by operation of law under Article 14 (1) (b) read with Section 1(a) of Part II of the second schedule of the Federal Constitution.
"Given the totality of the evidence, the respondents, on a balance of probabilities, proved that they fulfilled the third requirement of Section 1 (a) of Part II of the Second Schedule of the Federal Constitution that one of the parents is a Malaysian citizen," he said.
He also said there was nothing in the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 that imposes any requirement that an identity card is a prerequisite to the registration of marriage or which prohibits the marriage of stateless persons.
Justice Mohd Nazlan also said the Court of Appeal found no appealable errors in the High Court's judgment warranting appellate intervention.
In May last year, the High Court allowed the family's lawsuit and declared that they were entitled to automatic Malaysian citizenship.
The High Court held that Kamaladevi and her daughter have the right to register their marriages under Malaysian laws, and ruled that stateless persons in Malaysia have the right to register their marriage under Malaysian laws even without having a Malaysian identity card.
Kamaladevi's story dated back to her grandparents, who were both born in Malaya before the formation of Malaysia in 1963. The couple had two children, K. Vathumalai and K. Letchimee, through a customary marriage.
Letchimee had encountered problems with her official documents after her stepfather pawned her birth certificate when she was a child, and it was only recovered later by her brother.
She later entered into a customary marriage with a Malaysian man and had three children, including Kamaladevi. She could not register her marriage with the National Registration Department (NRD) as she did not possess an identity card then.
Kamaladevi claimed her mother should have received a Malaysian identity card, but did not collect it from the NRD before she died.
Kamaladevi said she too could not register her marriage to a Malaysian man as she did not have an identity card, resulting in her children born in Malaysia and her three grandchildren also becoming stateless.
At today's proceedings, senior federal counsel Norazlinawati Mohd Arshad appeared for the Registrar of Births and Deaths, Registrar-General of Births and Deaths, Director-General of National Registration, Minister of Home Affairs and the government of Malaysia, while lawyers New Sin Yew and Shugan Raman appeared for the family members.
New told the media that the Court of Appeal's decision affirmed that stateless persons have the right to marry under the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 and that the absence of an identification card, which stateless persons would not have, was not a bar to marriage. – BERNAMA
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'Outrageous betrayal for govt to appeal court-backed citizenship'
Published: Nov 27, 2025 10:15 AM
Updated: 10:15 AM
The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) appealing against court-ordered citizenship verdicts was an outrageous betrayal, said lawyer Latheefa Koya.
She called on the prime minister to immediately instruct the AG to cease such unnecessary objections and for the government to speed up all pending cases of stateless Malaysians.
She was responding to the Court of Appeal’s decision that dismissed the AGC’s appeal against...
NRD withdraws appeal, citizenship victory for Chow Kit 'trash bin baby' stands
November 25, 2025 @ 12:36pm
GEORGE TOWN: The National Registration Department (NRD) has withdrawn its appeal against a Penang High Court ruling that recognised an eatery shop assistant as a Malaysian citizen, allowing the earlier decision to stand.
The appeal had been set for hearing at the Court of Appeal here this morning.
However, Mohd Razwil Abdullah's lawyer, Datuk Habib Rahman Seeni Mohideen, confirmed that the NRD informed the court of its withdrawal, bringing the appellate process to a close.
The case stemmed from a Penang High Court decision on Nov 14 last year.
In that judgment, the court declared the applicant a Malaysian citizen by operation of law and ordered the NRD to issue a Malaysian birth certificate and identity card reflecting that status.
"Following the ruling, the NRD filed an appeal. The hearing was supposed to take place today.
"But they withdrew the appeal, which brought great joy to my client.
"So the implication is that the High Court decision, which declared my client entitled to be recognised as a Malaysian citizen, stands," he told newsmen at the High Court here.
The decision ends the applicant's year-long legal journey to secure citizenship recognition.
Razwil, 41, expressed deep gratitude, saying his prayers had finally been answered.
He thanked the Malaysian government, the Home Ministry and the Attorney-General's Chambers for withdrawing the appeal.
"This marks the end of a long journey and the start of a new chapter as I am finally recognised as a Malaysian citizen after 40 years. This recognition brings immense happiness and relief. I am committed to contributing positively to society and to our beloved country, Malaysia.
"I will never forget Rohaida Abdul Rashid, who found me and cared for me, nor the Welfare Department, which looked after me with compassion, until adulthood. Their kindness has shaped who I am today.
"I also want to thank my friends, colleagues and supporters who stood by me, prayed for me and believed in my cause for so many years.
"I sincerely hope others facing similar predicaments will also find justice, belonging and relief, as I have today."
Razwil, born on Dec 31, 1984, was discovered near a trash bin at Chow Kit Market, Kuala Lumpur, wrapped in a white towel with his umbilical cord still attached.
He was found by Rohaida, who cared for him for about four years before he was placed at the Tengku Budriah Children's Welfare Home in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, and later transferred to the Sultan Abdul Aziz Children's Home in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, in December 1990.
He spent his adolescence in these welfare homes and became known as the "trash bin baby". He remained under the care of the Social Welfare Department from childhood until adulthood.
Despite this, he remained stateless, not recognised as a Malaysian citizen and holding no citizenship in any other country. He was issued a birth certificate with non-citizen status by the NRD.
He was later given a temporary identification card with non-citizen status, which will expire on April 4, 2026.
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