She has been turned down by the Naltional Registration Department even though her parents are also citizens.
PETALING JAYA: She is a Malaysian citizen for the last 20 years but till today she has not been issued with MyKad. This is despite the fact that both her parents are citizens of this country.
Hair dresser Mary Ann, 32, from Batu Gajah said she has applied countless times for her card but nothing has come out of it.
The mother of five said that her problem started when her mother passed away in 1992 when she was 12 years old.
The youngest in her family, Mary Anne said that her mother’s passing had put her family in much difficulty and her father only applied to get her MyKad when she was 14.
“When my father made the application with the Batu Gajah National Registration Department (NRD), the officer told my father that there was an error on his document pertaining to my grandfather.
“The officer subsequently told my father to bring one of his siblings as a witness. But he told them that he lost contact with them but the officer stuck to his decision,” claimed Mary Anne.
FMT’s check on Mary Anne’s birth certificate showed that both her parents were stated as citizens.
Since then, Mary Anne said that she had applied to the NRD countless times to get her MyKad but her efforts remained futile.
“After my father passed away five years ago, NRD told me to bring my father’s relatives now. I don’t understand this as my older siblings were given MyKads except for me,” said Mary Anne.
However, Mary Anne’s children were issued citizenship in their birth certificates and her 13-year- old son holds a blue MyKad.
She also said that she made an application under the MyDaftar programme but received the same reply as well.
MIC should not boast
Commenting on the matter, Malaysian Tamil Progressive Association president A Kalaimughilan said that he would bring up Mary Anne’s case with the NRD office in Putrajaya for a solution.
“I will also refer Mary Anne’s case to the Cabinet Committee on Indian Affairs member A Siva Subramaniam,” he said.
On the MyDaftar, Kalaimughilan said that MIC should not boast about the success of the programme, claiming there were many other Indians who are suffering the same fate as Mary Anne.
“With all this, MIC had the cheek to go to the Prime Minister’s Office [PMO] to thank the prime minister (Najib Tun Razak) for solving the stateless Indians issue,” said Kalaimughilan.
On May 2, MIC Youth members went to the PMO to thank Najib for helping stateless Indians to get their citizenships.
However, the gathering turned into a brawl when about 50 PKR members arrived at the same time to deliver a memorandum over a 17-year-old stateless girl, B Reshina.
PETALING JAYA: She is a Malaysian citizen for the last 20 years but till today she has not been issued with MyKad. This is despite the fact that both her parents are citizens of this country.Hair dresser Mary Ann, 32, from Batu Gajah said she has applied countless times for her card but nothing has come out of it.
The mother of five said that her problem started when her mother passed away in 1992 when she was 12 years old.
The youngest in her family, Mary Anne said that her mother’s passing had put her family in much difficulty and her father only applied to get her MyKad when she was 14.
“When my father made the application with the Batu Gajah National Registration Department (NRD), the officer told my father that there was an error on his document pertaining to my grandfather.
“The officer subsequently told my father to bring one of his siblings as a witness. But he told them that he lost contact with them but the officer stuck to his decision,” claimed Mary Anne.
FMT’s check on Mary Anne’s birth certificate showed that both her parents were stated as citizens.
Since then, Mary Anne said that she had applied to the NRD countless times to get her MyKad but her efforts remained futile.
“After my father passed away five years ago, NRD told me to bring my father’s relatives now. I don’t understand this as my older siblings were given MyKads except for me,” said Mary Anne.
However, Mary Anne’s children were issued citizenship in their birth certificates and her 13-year- old son holds a blue MyKad.
She also said that she made an application under the MyDaftar programme but received the same reply as well.
MIC should not boast
Commenting on the matter, Malaysian Tamil Progressive Association president A Kalaimughilan said that he would bring up Mary Anne’s case with the NRD office in Putrajaya for a solution.
“I will also refer Mary Anne’s case to the Cabinet Committee on Indian Affairs member A Siva Subramaniam,” he said.
On the MyDaftar, Kalaimughilan said that MIC should not boast about the success of the programme, claiming there were many other Indians who are suffering the same fate as Mary Anne.
“With all this, MIC had the cheek to go to the Prime Minister’s Office [PMO] to thank the prime minister (Najib Tun Razak) for solving the stateless Indians issue,” said Kalaimughilan.
On May 2, MIC Youth members went to the PMO to thank Najib for helping stateless Indians to get their citizenships.
However, the gathering turned into a brawl when about 50 PKR members arrived at the same time to deliver a memorandum over a 17-year-old stateless girl, B Reshina.
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