Malaysian Caught With Dual Citizenship



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Malaysian caught with dual citizenship. This is application for malaysian citizenship by a person under the age of twenty one whose parent or parents are or were at the time of death citizens. Dont go in with msian passport then leave with another. I was by birth a malaysian citizen.

Appendix a 15 2 which is a dual purpose form for declaration of acceptance of and application for citizenship under article 15 2. As mentioned by the learned judge while malaysia does not recognise dual citizenship any deprivation of citizenship may only be validly undertaken by the federal government pursuant to arts 24 and 27 of the federal constitution or if it was voluntarily renounced by the plaintiff himself under art 23 of the federal constitution. Some malaysians have dual citizenship and actually don t know it s illegal.

A malaysian can also lose his citizenship if he is found to have used the rights or privileges that is given specifically to a citizen of another country such as the right to vote or hold their. Dual citizenship holders need not pay any penalty for failing to renounce their malaysian. Just have to be very careful to remember which passport was used to get in and out.

While working in uk i obtained uk citizenship. The official also revealed that annually about 5 000 people renounce their malaysian citizenship. This dual citizenship can only be done i presume if the malaysian passport is always renewed back in malaysia whenever it is expired and not in the malaysian embassy in uk or australia oz otherwise the malaysian embassy there will able to find out by checking with the local immigration office in regard to your citizenship status.

Surprisingly as we were researching for this article we found out that most malaysians have no clue that malaysia has strict regulations against dual citizenship. In response to the report alleging that thousands of thai nationals were having dual citizenship which allowed them to go in and out of malaysia without restriction since the 1980s muhyiddin said such dual citizenship holders will lose their malaysian citizenship as enshrined in the federal constitution. A singaporean with a second citizenship in malaysia pleaded guilty on thursday oct 1 to defaulting on his national service obligations for almost 10 years now saying he wants to.