Get The Visibility Your Company Needs
Reduce compliance risks and mobility costs while managing individual and project-related travel with ImmiSMART: the solution that unifies your travel and mobility programs.
MALAYSIA: Projection of Expatriates for 2018 Opens on 1st October 2017
September 21, 2017
Companies who are registered with the Expatriate Services Division (ESD) can start to apply for their 2018 projection for Employment Passes and Professional Visit Passes from 1st October 2017.
How does it work?
Companies who intend to employ foreign nationals in Malaysia in 2018 must have the projection approved and made available in the ESD portal before any Employment Pass or Professional Visit Pass applications can be made.
If the projection is not applied for in advance, processing of permit applications may take twice as long (up to four weeks).
Applications are submitted online and processing time is between five and ten working days.
Any unused projection approved for 2017 will not be carried forward for 2018.
At present, this projection application is only open for companies registered with the ESD. For companies registered with MDEC (Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation) or other agencies, no announcement has been made yet.
Our Advice
Companies intending to employ foreign nationals in Malaysia in 2018 should ensure that their projection is approved in plenty of time.
For advice and information on Malaysian immigration in general, please email us at [email protected].
