Comments on A Malaysian in France: No Malaysian citizenship for my children

as a malaysian woman abroad, i feel so sad about t...

2009-11-10T02:16:31.692+01:00

as a malaysian woman abroad, i feel so sad about this. giving birth at home is not easy because airline policy do not take you near to delivery date. how can it be possible to take such a long leave from work.

Bee, Singapore used to have the same law as Malays...

2009-10-02T18:51:57.078+02:00

Bee, Singapore used to have the same law as Malaysia but lucky for me, the year my daughter was born, they changed the law and allow female citizenship pass their citizenship to their children but my daughter will have to choose which citizenship she wants later in life as Singapore only allows single citizenship. I hope by the time comes, they will allow dual like France - a lot easier for me and my daughter.

i dunno, i would think a french citizenship is suf...

2009-10-02T08:50:24.385+02:00

i dunno, i would think a french citizenship is sufficient. it's not that bad in france, is it?

That really sucks. I was seriously considering abo...

2009-09-27T09:50:32.135+02:00

That really sucks. I was seriously considering about giving birth in Malaysia, when the time comes..

Bee, This really sucks! When you give birth in Mal...

2009-09-26T10:21:00.967+02:00

Bee,
This really sucks! When you give birth in Malaysia, they also try to make it as difficult as possible for the baby to get registered in another country's embassy. When Lucas was born, we had to take the day off to go to Putrajaya just to get an official stamp needed before we can translate the birth cert and wedding cert. My friend is married to an Italian and has 2 children, they are Malaysian citizens but have not obtained their Italian citizenship due to the paperwork! She applied for her children after me and said she has been facing one obstacle after another, and so far has been to Putrajaya 4 times.

FYI, the discrimination against women also applies to PR application for foreign husbands!

La Framericaine, I did know it but accepting it i...

2009-09-25T20:21:21.075+02:00

La Framericaine,

I did know it but accepting it is difficult, especially I'm qualified to apply for French citizenship now. How come France can easily give away their citizenship and the children of a Malaysian can't even get the same nationality as the mother.

Dida,

I agreed with you. Malaysia is having a program encouraging Malaysians living overseas to go back and contribute. However, if these Malaysians' children do not have the nationality, most likely they won't want to move back, or maybe they just want male Malaysians back?

You are not alone. I have 2 sons and nor they wil...

2009-09-25T14:55:52.512+02:00

You are not alone. I have 2 sons and nor they will be officially "Malaysians". It's sad but it's our country's great lost. Perhaps Malaysia is not realising that many of its citizens living abroad have our motherland close to their hearts. Obviously, those governing our country don't feel the same. Out of sight, out of mind. Already it's losing many of its people to greener pastures abroad, or simply because love tends to lead us across the oceans. Malaysia needs to change its old ways FAST and evolve with the current globe-trotting trends of its people... before its too late. Malaysia's strict mono-citizenship ruling will one day cause a surge in citizenship renouncement as its people chooses to vow allegiance to another nation simply because they are put in an uncomfortable position to choose between their country over their new inter-national family.

Laws of the land are weird, aren't they? And freq...

2009-09-25T11:57:11.731+02:00

Laws of the land are weird, aren't they? And frequently anti-female. But, I suspect, you figured that out already, n'est-ce pas?