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Saifuddin said the number was from a total of 150,000 citizenship applications received by his ministry to date.

Family Frontiers have obtained leave to proceed with their appeal against a Court of Appeals ruling which denied automatic citizenship to children born overseas to Malaysian mothers.

In civil cases, litigants must first obtain leave before they can proceed with appeals to the Federal Court.

Only children born overseas to Malaysian fathers who are married to foreign spouses are entitled to get citizenship by operation of law, the Court of Appeal held.

The Court of Appeal today ruled that the children born overseas to Malaysian mothers who are married to foreign spouses are not entitled by operation of law to be Malaysian citizens.

Bina Ramanand said about 70 Malaysian mothers had submitted citizenship documents but have yet to receive updates about the matter.

The Court of Appeal has set June 22 to give its verdict on the appeal by the government seeking to overturn a lower court ruling on children born overseas to Malaysian mothers.

Children born overseas to Malaysian mothers married to foreigners are entitled to be Malaysian citizens, pending the disposal of an appeal.

The judge ruled that the word "father" in the Second Schedule of the Federal Constitution must mean and include mothers.

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