Copy of the foreign citizenship certificate or copy of confirmation that the applicant will become the citizen of a foreign country;.
Birth Certificate or latest extract of Birth Certificate for applicants born in Malaysia, or Form W for applicants born in a foreign country if any ;. Applications for renunciation of Malaysian citizenship require the use of original Form K which may be obtained from Consulate General of Malaysia.
The applicant must be aged 21 and above; 2. The applicant is of sound mind; 3. The applicant has or will soon obtain foreign citizenship; and 4. Click here to read more on citizenship by operation of law. Every Malaysian citizen has the right to renounce his or her citizenship, as provided for under Article 23 of the Constitution. In , The Star reported that according to an official from the National Registration Department there were approximately 5, people who renounced their Malaysian citizenship annually.
Pursuant to Article 23 of the Constitution, a person who is of or over the age of twenty-one years and of sound mind may renounce his citizenship if he is a citizen of another country, or is about to become a citizen of another country.
The person shall then submit a declaration to the Federal Government via a Form K see picture below and other supporting documents such as passport, birth certificate and foreign citizenship certificate or copy of confirmation that the applicant will become the citizen of a foreign country.
If the applicant who wishes to renounce her citizenship is a married woman, in addition to the Form K, the applicant will also need to submit her marriage certificate as a supporting document. In the event a person who has renounced their Malaysian citizenship decides to change his or her mind, the National Registration Department website states that he or she will have to apply to the Federal Government under Article 18 2 of the Constitution before he can be reinstated as Malaysian citizen.
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Article 24 of the Constitution Deprivation of citizenship on acquisition or exercise of foreign citizenship 1 If the Federal Government is satisfied that any citizen has acquired by registration, naturalization or other voluntary and formal act other than marriage the citizenship of any country outside the Federation, the Federal Government may by order deprive that person of his citizenship.
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In , the Government of Singapore will lower its S Pass quota for the manufacturing sector. Vietnam government approves vaccine certificates from 72 countries and territories. There is no law in Malaysia by which a Malaysian citizen must renounce his or her citizenship of Malaysia when becoming a resident or citizen of another country. However, there may be countries which require a person who becomes their citizen to renounce his or her original citizenship.
A person can choose in certain cases to become a citizen of another country without renouncing Malaysian citizenship and can then await the consequences of proceedings for deprivation of Malaysian citizenship.
It is certainly not a criminal offence to become a citizen of another country while not renouncing Malaysian citizenship. If there is no ground established, naturally there cannot be deprivation of citizenship merely by executive fiat. The report will not be binding on the Government. A person may therefore still not end up being deprived of his or her citizenship of Malaysia even if there is a finding that there is a ground for depriving that person of his or her citizenship. The Government can choose not to make an order of deprivation of citizenship.
A ground for deprivation of citizenship is one where a citizen of Malaysia had by a voluntary act other than marriage become a citizen of another country. Putting it simply, voting in political elections in another country when the right to vote is available only to citizens of that country or merely applying for the issue or renewal of a passport of another country is a ground for deprivation of Malaysian citizenship.
Getting married to a citizen of another country by which a person thereby becomes a citizen of that country is not by itself a ground for deprivation of Malaysian citizenship.
However, a Malaysian citizen may face deprivation proceedings in Malaysia if he or she gets married to a citizen of another country and then, acting under the law of that other country, takes the additional step of applying for citizenship of that country on the ground of qualifying for citizenship of that country by reason of being married to a citizen of that country.
There is no provision in the Constitution for a retrospective effect to an act of renunciation or an order for deprivation of citizenship. There is a provision in the Second Schedule to the Constitution by which a decision of the Government regarding deprivation of citizenship shall not be subject to appeal or review in any court. However, there are decisions of the courts suggesting that the courts can intervene as regards such issues as errors of procedure committed in the process of deprivation so as to render a decision void.
There is provision in the Constitution against depriving, in some instances, a person of Malaysian citizenship if the Government is satisfied that as a result such person would not be a citizen of any country.
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