You should be ashamed of promoting lie so blindly. Myanmar never offered citizenship. They just asked to be returned in the camp but no guarantee or promise what will happen after that. They did not return on safety ground which even UN has acknowledged.
Who is spreading lies and messed up with everybody in here so blindly ?... believe it or not. even some of applications are accepted and some even received citizenship. that's why we said UN itself biased organization. so hold it once or lose it forever.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burm...partial-citizenship-rights-rakhine-state.html
YANGON —
More than half of the 7,000-plus Muslim Rohingya who have applied for citizenship in Rakhine State over the past three years have now been accepted following a wave of approvals in just the last few months, according to the Ministry of Labor, Population and Immigration.
U Shein Win, deputy director general of the ministry’s National Registration and Citizenship Department, said most of them failed to qualify for full citizenship because they lacked the necessary family records going back seven decades.
In any case, the recent wave of citizenship cards has been raising both hopes and old grievances across the strife-torn region. It has drawn a mixed reaction among Rohingya in Maungdaw Township and the more than 700,000 who have fled to Bangladesh since late 2017 to escape a military crackdown in northern Rakhine.
Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in early 2018 to repatriate the refugees, but the process has yet to begin in earnest. Only a few dozen have returned to Myanmar to date, mostly outside of official channels.
Recently, authorities in Rakhine have issued more than 100 green cards granting partial citizenship to Rohingya who stayed in Maungdaw as an incentive to entice more of the refugees back.
According to Maungdaw residents, more than 400 applicants are still awaiting decisions on what sort of citizenship they will receive — if any.
Myanmar’s Citizenship Law was enacted in 1982 under the Ne Win regime, creating three categories of citizenship with varying privileges: full, associate and naturalized. T
he accompanying cards are colored pink, blue and green, respectively. The laws stipulates that anyone whose ancestors arrived Myanmar before Jan. 4, 1948, the day Myanmar gained independence from Britain, is eligible for one of the three.
All applications are vetted in Naypyitaw by the Central Body, made up of top officials from several government ministries.
People walk between stalls at a market in Maungdaw town in northern Arakan State on November 11, 2014. / Reuters
Thousands of cards issued
U Shein Win said the “program” was initiated in 2016, a few months after the national elections that swept the National League for Democracy to power.
He said the majority of the applicants were those with National Verification Cards (NVCs), which grant Rohingya residence in Myanmar while they apply for citizenship.
The NVCs were thought up by the previous administration, headed by the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, to replace the so-called white cards. The white cards had allowed holders to vote in the 2010 general elections but were revoked after the communal riots that swept across the country two years later, disenfranchising many Rohingya in the process.
U Shein Win said the government had issued 14,000 NVCs in Rakhine, and at least half the holders have applied for citizenship. He said the government handed out citizenship cards to those applicants in two groups earlier this year and had only one group left to vet.
“Most of the applications have been approved; I just don’t know the specific number…. I think there is only one batch to be completed.” he said.
U Shein Win said most of them have received green and blue cards. A few pink cards went to those with the most complete family records. “Pink cards appear to be the fewest,” he said.
More rights
Some Rohingya applicants say the Central Body recently approved 74 green cards.
Abdul Rashid (name changed for his safety), from Maungdaw, said his family was among the lucky few granted pink cards because they had records going back seven generations.
He said many applicants thought they would get full citizenship, but added that most could not produce the necessary family documents dating back to 1948 or beyond and received green or blue cards instead. He said some of those granted green cards were dissatisfied and have appealed the decision, while others have refused to even take them.
Amir Hamza (name changed) is still awaiting a decision on his application.
He said the cards — whether pink, blue or green — label them as ethnic Bengali rather than Rohingya, which they consider themselves, but have been accepted regardless by most as a ticket to a better life. Because even as naturalized citizens, he said, they can move freely, own property, access education, vote and get passports.
“Although we prefer Rohingya over Bengali, a green or pink card is a necessity, so we exchanged our [ethnic] status to have a practical life,” Amir Hamza said.
U Shein Win, the immigration official, confirmed that the new cards labeled the holders Bengali, reflecting the government’s position that they are the descendants of Bangladeshi laborers brought to Myanmar by the British before independence.
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https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/refugees-citizenship-demands-impossible-myanmar-govt
in short note ,
But Maungdaw District administrator U Soe Aung said on November 16 that refugees’ demands were not in line with the 1982 Citizenship Law.
“The things they are asking for, they are impossible,” he told
Frontier at his office in Maungdaw town.
“If they are asking for citizenship to be given to all of them, there’s no way it will be possible.”
Those who do return will instead be forced to enroll in the government’s National Verification Card scheme, through which their application for citizenship will be considered.
tell me now who is spreading lies here... ?
