KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 3 -- Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said the government has yet to implement the automatic granting of citizenship to children born overseas to Malaysian mothers and foreign fathers.

He said the amendment, once enforced, would allow such children to obtain citizenship by operation of law or automatically but several procedural steps remain before it can be formally applied.

"Although the constitutional amendment has been passed, it is not yet in effect. We need to complete additional processes, including setting an enforcement date which must receive royal assent, as required under Section 1(2)," Saifuddin told Dewan Rakyat today.

He explained that until the amendment takes effect, mothers in this...