{"id":20848,"date":"2018-02-02T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T05:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20848"},"modified":"2018-02-08T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T04:12:37","slug":"women-central-on-approval-of-permanent-residency-and-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20848","title":{"rendered":"Women Central on approval of permanent residency and citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP\u00a0Women Central\u00a0Chairman Kho Teck Wan\u00a0calls for speedy approval\u00a0of\u00a0permanent residency\u00a0and citizenship application\u00a0in Sarawak.<\/p>\n<p>In Sarawak, the\u00a0process and\u00a0efforts\u00a0to register\u00a0children in rural\u00a0areas had improved significantly these days, but cases of stateless children that were born without birth certificate due to unmarried parents or adoption still very high. \u201cI had helped with few adoption applications of foreign\u00a0and\u00a0stateless children,\u00a0and\u00a0understand\u00a0the pain of\u00a0parents who suffered years of\u00a0waiting for\u00a0these cases to be processed and approved.\u201d Said Kho.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the foreign spouse\u00a0can only apply for permanent resident\u00a0status after 10 years of first coming to Sarawak\u00a0after marriage.\u00a0Many foreign spouses faced difficult hurdles to stay in Sarawak as a permanent resident.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0Malaysian\u00a0civil servants posted to Sarawak, the time they serve in the civil service is not taken into consideration for the 10-year requirement. It means he or she can only start to count the 10 years when he or she resigns from the civil service. This has force professionals such as\u00a0doctors in public service facing such predicament to either return to\u00a0West Malaysia\u00a0or Sabah or resign from public service and work in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>Many\u00a0permanent resident applicants are\u00a0talented and well qualified people.\u00a0Sarawak should consider absorbing them in our talent pool to help in developing the state.<\/p>\n<p>The latest news spreading in the social media is the speed of the approval granted to a spouse\u00a0and\u00a0children\u00a0of prominent figure. This is indeed good news for foreign spouses\u00a0and children\u00a0if this case can be adopted for all applicants.<\/p>\n<p>SUPP\u00a0Women Central\u00a0is fully supportive of granting permanent residents\u00a0and citizenship\u00a0status to\u00a0qualified\u00a0and law abiding\u00a0foreigners and children\u00a0who fulfilled the conditions. More importantly SUPP\u00a0Women Central\u00a0calls for the period to be shorten and the process speed up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/unnamed-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20849\" alt=\"unnamed (4)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/unnamed-4-245x300.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/unnamed-4-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/unnamed-4-838x1024.jpg 838w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/unnamed-4.jpg 1048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP\u00a0Women Central\u00a0Chairman Kho Teck Wan\u00a0calls for speedy approval\u00a0of\u00a0permanent residency\u00a0and citizenship application\u00a0in Sarawak. In Sarawak, the\u00a0process and\u00a0efforts\u00a0to register\u00a0children in rural\u00a0areas had improved significantly these days, but cases of stateless children that were born without birth certificate due to unmarried parents or adoption still very high. \u201cI had helped with few adoption applications of foreign\u00a0and\u00a0stateless children,\u00a0and\u00a0understand\u00a0the pain of\u00a0parents who suffered years of\u00a0waiting for\u00a0these cases to be processed and approved.\u201d Said Kho. Currently the foreign spouse\u00a0can only apply for permanent resident\u00a0status after 10 years of first coming to Sarawak\u00a0after marriage.\u00a0Many foreign spouses faced<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20848\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20850,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20848\/revisions\/20850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}