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Anyone born in the federation whose parents were born and lived continuously for 15 years in the federation; Via naturalisation (by application), one could achieve citizenship, given these criteria: Born and lived for at least 8 of 12 years in the Federation of Malaya before the application was made
A federal Malayan citizenship was created at its inception, although the union lasted only two years before reforming into the Federation of Malaya. Malayan citizenship existed simultaneously with the subject statuses of the individual Malay states and British nationality in the Straits Settlements.
The group of people eligible for application of citizenship had to live in Singapore or British Malaya "for 5 out of 8 years preceding the application", had to be of good character, understand and speak the English or Malay language and "had to take an oath of allegiance to the Malayan Union". However, the citizenship proposal was never ...
The Aliens Ordinance provided the colonial state with a mechanism for registering aliens resident in Malaya and represented an important stage in the development of statutes and measures to monitor immigrants in Malaya. [7] During the third phase, 1947–57, the Aliens Ordinance was replaced by the Immigration Ordinance of 1953.
British-era Federation of Malaya passport issued in 1957. Malaysia was the first country in the world to issue biometric passports in March 1998, after a local company, IRIS Corporation, developed the technology. [3] In December 2002, thumbprint data was added to the biometric data on the passport chip.
It gave effect to the Agreement where that the British colonies of North Borneo, Sarawak and the State of Singapore should be federated with the existing States of the Federation of Malaya and the name of the federation should be Malaysia, [2] and the Federal constitution wherewith to amend and adopt the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya ...
The office was established in 1957, when the Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gained independence from the United Kingdom. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is elected by the Conference of Rulers, comprising the nine rulers of the Malay states, with the office de facto rotated between them, making Malaysia one of the world's few elective monarchies.
The Constitution was drafted on the basis of a report from the Reid Commission.The commission, which had been formed to lay the groundwork for a Constitution in the run-up to Malaysia's pending independence, released the report in 1957 as the Report of the Federation of Malaya Constitutional Commission 1957 or The Reid Commission Report. [2]