In December 2020, the lobbying group along with six Indonesian women married to immigrants with children born outside the region had filed a legal problem with the Kuala Lumpur High Court, seeking their children’s proper to Malaysian citizenship.  ,
They sought a court order for all pertinent government agencies, including the National Registration Department, Immigration Department and Malaysian political operations to challenge citizenship papers to children born abroad to Indonesian women married to immigrants.  ,
On Sep 9, 2021, the Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled in their behalf, declaring that Malay parents have equal freedom as Malay fathers to immediately give citizenship on their overseas-born children.
But, in August 2022, the Court of Appeal overturned the High Court’s decision in a 2-1 judgement. The Federal Court finally allowed Family Frontiers to follow its charm in December 2022, local media reported.  ,
While their charm was ongoing, the Malaysian state on Mar 25, 2024, began tabling a proposed legislation in Parliament, with the aim of changing the Federal Constitution’s citizenship laws to help Malaysian mothers ‘ overseas-born children to immediately be granted Malaysian citizenship.  ,
On Monday, Gurdial Singh Nijar- who is the lead lawyer representing the mothers- informed the Federal Court that the government and his clients had agreed to maintain the decision handed down by the High Court in 2021.  ,
Speaking to the media after the court proceedings, Gurdial said that the settlement was a “great gift” for Malaysian women.
” It is a historic judgement, a conclusion to crack decades-long discrimination”, he said, as quoted by The Edge Malaysia.  ,
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency ( UNHCR ), Malaysia is one out of 25 countries that prevents women from conferring citizenship rights to their children born overseas on an equal basis as men.
In their manifestos for the 15th general election in 2022, both Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional- now partners in the unity government led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim- pledged to amend the Federal Constitution to give mothers that same right.