Register children within 60 days of birth to avoid citizenship problems: Nur Jazlan

JOHOR BARU: Parents should register their children immediately to avoid any problems in ensuring an automatic citizenship.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said the delay was one of the reasons detected in the MyDaftar applications from the Indian community in Malaysia who sought citizenship.
"So we advise parents to register their children within 60 days of birth because more than that, they could be fined and it would also cause problems in getting automatic citizenship. Children who are registered late will have to get permanent resident status under Application for Citizenship Under Article 15 (1).
"The matter becomes more complicated if the parents do not have marriage documents or the child was born out of wedlock, or one of the parents is a foreigner," he told reporters after launching the Distributed Printing Hub Project (DPP Hub) at the Johor National Registration Department (NRD), Home Ministry Complex here today.
Nur Jazlan said there were some MyDaftar applicants who were adopted but did not have complete documents.

"If they are adopted, the incomplete documentation will make it difficult to process their citizenship status. But we will still process and study each application before we forward it to the Home Minister to make a decision.
They should be awarded a citizenship under Application for Citizenship Under Article 15 (1).
"MyDaftar is managed by the Special Indian Task Force (SITF) and the Prime Minister's Department processes applications at 23 NRD listed offices from June 5 to 22, 2017," he said.
He added that to date, the NRD had received 466 applications from throughout the country and urged more Indians who have problems with documentation to come forward.
Nur Jazlan added that the DPP Hub which was launched today would benefit all the people of Johor in matters related to the application of identity cards.
He said through this project, 36 of the 55 NRD offices have been turned into DPP Hubs which will print the application for MyKad from 157 NRD offices (sub-hubs), a process that was previously done at the NRD headquarters.
"The surrender date of the MyKad at the sub-hub offices could be shortened from 10 working days to five in Peninsular Malaysia and from 30 working days to seven in Sabah and Sarawak," he said.
The DPP Hub project in Johor involved four of the five NRD offices which have been made Johor State NRD hubs, namely the Johor Bahru, Batu Pahat, Kota Tinggi and Kluang offices.
Each hub would print MyKad applications from 14 sub-hubs in Johor, namely at Kulai, RTC Johor, Pasir Gudang, Rengit, Segamat, Labis, Bandar Penawar, Pontian, Mersing, Simpang Renggam and Yong Peng.
The applications from three sub-hubs – Pagoh, Muar and Tangkak – would be printed at the Melaka UTC NRD, which is closer. — Bernama