Company reps can renew foreign worker permits: Dept
Published on: Thursday, February 26, 2015
Kota Kinabalu: The Sabah Immigration Department allows representatives of companies as well as recruitment agencies to apply for and renew foreign workers' permits, apart from employers and company owners.Its Director Noor Alam Khan said they can do so at any counter in the department here during office hours."In Sabah, the company representatives must also bring along his or her Employees Provident Fund (EPF) slip that displays the name of the company to prove the representative works there.ADVERTISEMENT "There are also companies or employers that engage the services of recruitment agencies to apply for and renew the permits."We allow such agency to handle the permits provided it has a special agency card that is issued by the department here," he said to Daily Express here, Wednesday.Noor Alam said this when commenting on a Tuesday statement by Immigration Director-General Datuk Mustafa Ibrahim that company directors and human resource managers in Selangor are permitted to renew the workers' permits over the counter besides employers or company owners.Earlier, the department had announced that its counter services would be closed and permit renewals must only be done via MyEG, effective Jan 5. ADVERTISEMENT However, following protests from various groups against the RM38 fee that is charged for renewing each foreign worker's permit, the department decided to re-open its counters until Feb 28 and the online applications via MyEG were continued as well.So, when the counters were re-opened, company representatives were told by the Immigration staff that company directors had to come personally to submit the renewal applications for the permits.
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Due to grouses from employees and company owners over the matter, Mustafa said the department has relaxed its procedures on over-the-counter renewal of foreign workers' permits and allowing the companies' director and human resource managers to handle the renewal.In light of this, Noor Alam said Sabah is not subjected to such procedures announced as the situation differs here whereby online applications for new and renewal of the permits via MyEG has yet to be implemented here.