ALOR STAR: Malaysian ambassador to Thailand Datuk Nazirah Hussain yesterday reminded Malaysians who married abroad to register their marriages at the embassy to ensure that their children could get Malaysian citizenship.

She said should the child be born a day after the marriage was registered at the Malaysian embassy, a W Form (overseas birth certificate) could still be issued.

However, she said, the form would not be issued if the marriage was not registered before the child’s birth.

On the citizenship application, Nazirah said the D Form and W Form would be issued to a Malaysian man who is married to a non-Malaysian, on the condition that the couple had registered the marriage in Malaysia or at the embassy.

“For a child born overseas to a Malaysian mother married to a foreigner, the application for Malaysian citizenship can be done using the B Form under Article 15 (2) of the Federal Constitution.

“The embassy does not issue the W Form and only receives the B Form application, which is to be submitted to the National Registration Department in Putrajaya. The form will be processed by the department before being sent to the Home Ministry for approval,” she said yesterday.

-New Straits Times