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01 Dec

Bangladesh To Send New Foreign Workers To Malaysia

Unemployed Bangladeshis could begin finding work in Malaysia as soon as early next month, the Bangladesh Minister for Expatriate Welfare and overseas employment said Wednesday after talks in Dhaka with his counterpart from Malaysia. “Very soon, Malaysia will start recruiting Bangladesh foreign workers for its construction, plantation and manufacturing sectors,” Minister Islam’s office said in a statement released Wednesday.

Following discussions on Tuesday with Richard Riot Anak Jaem, the Malaysian Human Resources Minister, Nurul Islam told reporters that flights carrying Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia could begin in the first week of December.

“Very soon, Malaysia will start recruiting Bangladesh workers for its construction, plantation and manufacturing sectors,” Minister Islam’s office said in a statement released Wednesday.

“The Malaysian minister said they will start recruiting workers from Bangladesh very soon and the Malaysian government is keen to recruit workers from Bangladesh.”

Islam did not discuss the number of Bangladeshis who would be able to find work in Malaysia’s plantation, construction and manufacturing sectors, and Riot returned to Malaysia on Wednesday following his two-day visit without talking to reporters.

When contacted in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday evening, Peter Dennis, Riot’s senior private secretary, declined comment, telling BenarNews that the minister would issue no statements about the meeting in Dhaka.

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No agreement was signed at this week’s meeting in the Bangladeshi capital, and it was unclear whether the latest talks were a follow-up to a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries in February. Initial reports then said that Kuala Lumpur had agreed to recruit as many as 1.5 million workers from Bangladesh over the next three years for jobs in its agriculture and manufacturing sectors.

But a day after the MoU was signed, Malaysia announced a moratorium on all new arrivals of migrant workers from Bangladesh and other countries. In May, Malaysian immigration officials said that they planned to ease the hiring freeze on foreign workers on condition that employers proved that these migrants were essential to their businesses, according to a report in Malay Mail Online.

About 300,000 Bangladeshis work in Malaysia, sending about 110 billion taka (U.S. $1.4 billion) back home every year, according to government figures.

News of the latest bilateral talks in Dhaka drew jobless people to Bangladesh’s Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training in the capital, as recruiting agencies began promising to find jobs for clients at a cost of 40,000 taka ($507) per head.

“We cannot figure out how many Bangladeshis will be able to go to Malaysia. The recruiting agencies will contact the Malaysian employers and send them, charging some 40,000 taka for each. But I think this is possible to send people [in] two weeks as our minister has stated,” Jahangir Alam, the information officer of the Expatriates’ Welfare Ministry, told BenarNews on Wednesday.

He said the government would be involved in the employment process so recruiting agencies could not exploit potential candidates.

Migrant advocates concerned

Meanwhile, migrant rights groups questioned the likelihood that Bangladeshis could be employed in Malaysia so soon.

“You see how the minister’s comment impacted the unemployed and poor youths: they have started visiting recruiting agents with money. Nobody knows how it is possible to get a job in Malaysia in less than two weeks,” Syed Saiful Haque, chairman of Warbe Development Foundation, a group that advocates migrants’ rights, told BenarNews on Wednesday.

He said corrupt middlemen already were luring poor and illiterate youths and their families with promises of jobs in Malaysia in exchange for payments.

“They are going to the brokers and the agents, as the government has not made any clear-cut statement on the procedure of going to Malaysia for jobs. The middlemen will exploit the situation. They will tell each of the workers that if they do not pay them more money immediately, he will not get the job. Thus many of the people will sell their land and other valuables to manage the money for the middlemen,” Haque said.

News Source: Benar News

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01 Dec

Apply New KDN Quota Approval For Bangladesh Foreign Workers

On November 15, 2016, the Malaysian Human Resources Minister, Mr. Richard Riot Anak Jaem and his team have holds a meeting with Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam at his official in Dhaka. Malaysia Government will allow the Bangladesh foreign workers recruitment very soon. Malaysia is going to hire Bangladeshi workers in 3 sectors ie construction, plantation and manufacturing.

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The Malaysian Minister revealed about the information after holding a bilateral meeting with Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam at his office in Dhaka today.

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30 Nov

Malaysia Foreign Workers Speak Of Their Despair: Samsung Only Knows How To Take

It is eight o’clock in the industrial area of Port Klang, an hour’s drive west of Kuala Lumpur, and the entrance to the Samsung factory is heaving with workers. As hundreds of men and women foreign workers pour out of the factory gates into the clammy air, hundreds more file in to start the night shift.

Outside the factory gates, those who have finished their shift crouch on the pavement in the evening heat, their faces reflecting the glow of their mobile phones as they wait for the fleet of buses that will take them back to their accommodation. Among them is 18-year-old Aakash Bhandari, who sits slumped on the side of the road, exhausted after 12 hours on his feet.

Bhandari is just one of the 2,000 people working at this Samsung factory, a non-stop operation churning out microwave ovens sold to consumers across the world. There are an estimated 2.1 million documented migrant workers like Bhandari in Malaysia, many of them hired through third-party foreign worker supply companies who recruit labour workers from Nepal, Indonesia, India and Bangladesh to drive Malaysia’s industrial boom.

Bhandari is a long way from his village in the remote hills of western Nepal. Back home, a series of family tragedies and debt led him to drop out of school and look for work abroad. Malaysia is a notoriously dangerous place for migrant workers, but a recruitment agent in Nepal told him he’d be working for Samsung, one of the world’s biggest brands.

“[The agent in Nepal] told me it was a [Samsung] mobile phone factory where I would only have to pack mobiles … but I am making microwaves and it is very difficult,” says Bhandari.

Now he’s in Malaysia, Bhandari’s recruitment debt – and the 60% interest loan he took to pay it – has a stranglehold on the teenager.

“When you go to the recruitment agent, they promise a certain salary and assure you that you will be able to pay back your loan and earn money, but when you get here you find it’s impossible to pay the money back, even if you stay here for two years,” he says.

This debt is keeping him at the factory – that and the pressure to pay it back and send money home to his family, who have pinned all their prospects on his earning potential in Malaysia.

“In Kathmandu the agent told me, ‘If you don’t like the work we’ll change your company…’ That is why I came … [but now] he says I have to give him 20,000 rupees [£150] to change jobs.” This additional payment is impossible for him to afford.

Bhandari is not alone. A group of workers employed by the same labour supply company stop to talk to the Guardian before they start their night shifts. They also feel they have been duped and deceived by their labour supply company into taking on huge debts to come and work at the Samsung factory.

Some say the labour supply company had assured them they would receive £315 a month basic salary. However, when they were handed their contract shortly before leaving Nepal, it promised only £268 a month, including overtime.

Another man – 34-year-old Ram Bahadur – says he was ushered into a side room in the offices of his recruitment agency in Kathmandu just hours before he was due to leave for Malaysia and told he must pay a further £340 on top of the £870 he had already paid for his job.

“You’ve cheated us!” shouted a furious Bahadur. The agent calmly asked the men to put their hands up if they no longer wanted to go. No one did. “We had no money left,” says Bahadur. “How could we return to our homes empty-handed? So we had to go.”

The men say the only answer is to put in punishing hours of overtime in an attempt to boost their paychecks. 12- to 14-hour days are the norm in much of Malaysia’s electronics sector. A payslip seen by the Guardian shows Bhandari worked 29 out of 30 days in September, including 65 hours of overtime.

“The work is extremely difficult,” says another worker at the Samsung plant, Rabi Tamang. “You get only 45 minutes in a 12-hour shift to eat and seven minutes every two hours to drink water.”

The men say they can expect little help from their supervisors at the labour supply company either. “Old timers say if we speak up a lot, they will get someone to beat you up, or they will transfer you to a worse place,” says one man working at the Samsung plant.

Many of the group now want to leave, if only they could. They say their passports were all confiscated on arrival in the country, an illegal but pervasive practice, and they have been told they will have to pay £740 if they want to go – the equivalent of four months’ basic salary.

Bhandari does not know if the labour supply company will allow him to return to Nepal, but even if he could, it is not an option for him. “We have problems at home so either I’ll have to pay the agent to work for another company, or run away and find work illegally outside,” says the teenager. “I don’t have any other choice.”

Samsung officially bans suppliers from charging foreign workers recruitment fees or confiscating passports and, as a member of the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) has also pledged to repay worker recruitment debt.

When asked whether Samsung had repaid any worker debts at the factory, one man employed directly by Samsung instead of through a labour supply company says he hasn’t received any compensation.

“Samsung doesn’t know how to give,” he says. “It only knows how to take.”

A Samsung statement said: “As a committed member of the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), we comply fully with the EICC’s Code of Conduct and have found no evidence of violations in the hiring process of migrant workers hired directly by our manufacturing facility in Malaysia. Once there is any complaint, we take swift actions to investigate.

“We are currently conducting on-site investigations of labour supply companies we work with in Malaysia and the migrant employees hired by these companies. If any violations are uncovered, we will make immediate corrective actions and moving forward we will suspend our business with companies that are found to be in violation.”

News Source: The Guardian

 

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28 Nov

New Rulings for KL Businesses From Jan 1, 2017

At least 50% equity in all businesses in Kuala Lumpur must be owned by Malaysians starting next year, said Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) executive director (Socio-Economic Development) Datuk Mohd Sauffi Muhamad.

He said businesses that failed to do so will have their business premises licence revoked.

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A business owner raising her concerns during the dialogue.

 “The Companies Commission of Malaysia currently allows businesses with only 1% of its equity held by Malaysians. We fear a situation where Malaysians will soon have to work for the foreigners.

“Besides that, we also want all businesses to have at least 50% Malaysian staff.

“These moves are to curb the monopolisation by foreigners in businesses, especially in critical areas including Jalan Tun Tan Siew Sin, Leboh Pudu, Bukit Bintang, Medan Pasar, Pusat Bandar Utara, Jalan Chow Kit, Leboh Ampang, Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur Wholesale Market, Selayang Daily Market, Chow Kit Market, Pudu Market and Keramat Market

“It has come to a point for us to make a radical decision before the situation gets out of hand.

“I am not denying that it will be a difficult to adapt to the changes but I hope the local business community will support this initiative,” he said after a dialogue with the traders and hawkers in Menara DBKL on Nov 24.

Mohd Sauffi said since 2012 to October this year, DBKL enforcement unit had confiscated items from 23,553 foreign hawkers and 544 local hawkers’ licences were revoked for using foreign services during that period

“DBKL has never issued hawkers licence to foreigners and hawkers are strictly forbidden from hiring foreign helpers.

“As of October this year, DBKL has identified 7,400 foreigners working for Malaysian hawkers, who are now at risk of having their licences revoked.

“DBKL has formed a task force to engage the business community over the new licence conditions and educate them on what can and cannot be done.

“From Jan 1, we will go all out to enforce the new rulings,” he said.

Also present at the dialogue was Immigration Department enforcement director Datuk Jaafar Mohamed and DBKL Licensing and Petty Traders Management director Datuk Ibrahim Yusof.

Jaafar said there were two million registered foreign workers and based on his estimation, there were about 600,000 illegal foreign workers in Malaysia.

“In 2015 and 2014, a total of 245,000 and 179,000 illegal foreigners were sent back to their home countries, respectively.

“The high number of illegal foreign workers are also due to the locals hiring illegal foreign workers for the cheap labour and to avoid paying the required taxes.

“I hope the locals will stop hiring them and consider the social and economic implications,” he said.

News Source: TheStar

 

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20 Nov

Malaysia Hire Bangladeshi Workers In Services, Manufacturing and Construction Sectors

“We have an agreement with Malaysia for the foreign workers recruitment. Now, we have discussed to expedite the process based on that agreement,” an additional secretary of the ministry told The Daily Star. Officials at the expatriates’ welfare ministry said both the governments are now in the final phase to start the recruitment of the workers soon.

Nurul Islam is scheduled to brief reporters about the developments of the recruitment tomorrow, they added.

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Visiting Malaysian Human Resources Minister Richard Riot holds a meeting with Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam at his official in Dhaka on November 15, 2016.

“We have an agreement with Malaysia for the workers’ recruitment. Now, we have discussed to expedite the process based on that agreement,” an additional secretary of the ministry told The Daily Star.

The Malaysian government suspended the recruitment of foreign workers from all countries including Bangladesh on February 19 just a day after the two governments signed a memorandum of understanding in Dhaka.

But the ministry officials said the agreement with Malaysia was not suspended rather they were negotiating with the foreign labour receiving country on some key issues including recruitment process, migration costs and salaries.

After huge criticisms for an alleged syndicate by some selective Bangladeshi recruiting agents to dominate the Malaysian job market, the expatriates’ welfare ministry said it will not give any scope of forming any syndicate.

“We have discussed with the visiting Malaysian minister and informed him that they must include our 745 recruiting agents for the job otherwise the process will be hampered due to some selective agents,” said Minister Nurul Islam.

However, Ruhul Amin, secretary general of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira), told this correspondent that they are not aware of the Malaysian government’s decision yet.

Malaysia has been a popular destination for Bangladesh foreign workers over the last three decades but the recruitment process has always been tainted by malpractices that result in labour abuses.

Following massive irregularities during 2006 and 2008, Malaysia froze recruitment from Bangladesh in early 2009. In late 2012, the country began labour recruitment on a limited scale, but it did not work well allegedly for the influence of recruitment agents having vested interests in both the countries.

Currently, around three lakh Bangladeshis are working in different sectors in Malaysia legally while a good number of the Bangladeshis are also working without legal documents.

News Source: The Daily Star

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18 Nov

Malaysian Government Expediting Intake of Foreign Workers From Bangladesh To Aid Industries

Malaysia is leveraging on a government-to-government platform with Bangladesh to expedite new foreign worker hires from Bangladesh as the plantation, rubber glove manufacturing and furniture sectors are in dire need of foreign workers.

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Malaysia is leveraging on a government-to-government platform with Bangladesh to expedite new hires as the plantation, rubber glove manufacturing and furniture sectors are in dire need of workers. “Last week, the Cabinet has directed Human Resources Minister Datuk Richard Riot Jaem to speed up the process of sourcing new hires from Bangladesh,” said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong.

“Last week, the Cabinet has directed Human Resources Minister Datuk Richard Riot Jaem to speed up the process of sourcing new Bangladesh foreign worker hires,” said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong.

“My ministry is coordinating with relevant authorities to ease this problem so that you can meet the export orders,” he said after officiating the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Furniture Industry Association (KLSFIA) 60th Anniversary and Merger Gala Dinner, here last Friday.

Mah also assured furniture manufacturers that his ministry is looking at new measures to facilitate adequate supply of rubberwood at competitive pricing.

Mah said he is liaising with the Ministry of International Trade and Industry to facilitate furniture manufacturers to exhibit at the soon-to-be-completed Malaysian International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) that spans across one million sq ft.

In February, the Home Ministry reportedly suspended the recruitment of foreign workers, only to partially allow hiring of new foreign workers to four sectors including construction, services, manufacturing and furniture manufacturer in May.

To date, furniture manufacturers such as members of KLSFIA said they continue to face foreign labour shortage. They have repeatedly appealed to the government that the sudden policy change in the hiring of foreign workers was bad for business.

The Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers Association (Margma) have also said that disruption in new hire of foreign workers is jeopardising Malaysia’s position as the number one maker of medical and surgical gloves globally.

Last year, Malaysia’s 106 medical glove-making factories churned out some 120 billion pieces for exports and this brought in RM13.1 billion.

“As global demand for medical gloves expands, we need more workers; it is our fervent hope the government ensure availability of new foreign worker hire,” Margma president Denis Low Jau Foo reportedly said.

“We are duly worried by not being able to meet global demand for this medical device. There is an element of humanity here as the medical gloves we make are a necessity for doctors to save lives,” Low added.

According to data provided by the Statistics Department, the manufacturing sector contributed RM626 billion last year, thus making it a key economic driver, which also accounted for half of Malaysia’s RM1.16 trillion economy and more than 80 per cent of RM780 billion total exports.

Separately, the Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association (SOPPOA) reiterated its members continue to face acute shortage of workers and they are experiencing huge losses.

Currently, Sarawak has 1.4 million hectares planted with oil palms. According to the Labour-Land Ratio of one man to 8ha, SOPPOA members require 175,000 workers.

But data from Malaysian Palm Oil Board and the Sarawak Labour Department reveal only 108,000 workers are employed in the Sarawak plantation industry, comprised of 86,000 foreign workers and 22,000 locals.

“We face shortfall of over 67,000 workers. Loss of fruits left unharvested leads to billions in revenue losses to estates and the government in terms of taxes collection,” it said in a statement last Friday.

If new hire of foreign worrkes continues to be disrupted and lacking, SOPPOA regretfully expressed Sarawak’s palm oil industry may not be able to meet the government’s target growth of 8 per cent per annum to achieve 2 million hectares of planted area by 2020.

News Source : New Straits Time Online

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16 Nov

Malaysia Employers Can Pay Foreign Workers Health Examination Fees Online

Malaysia employers of foreign workers can pay their workers’ health examination fees online via the Foreign Workers Medical Examination Monitoring Agency (Fomema) employers’ portal from today.

Its chief executive officer Datuk Mohd Hatar Ismail said the facility was introduced to enable employers conduct their businesses faster and more efficiently via the portal at https://portal.fomema.my/.

“We no longer have to use a scanner to scan related documents as conducted during the conventional registration process at Fomema branches, with the internet facility.

“All employers have to do is to open an account for user identity and password and register their foreign workers online via Financial Process Exchange (FPX), namely, a payment channel provided for 15 participating banks,” he said in a statement here today.

He said the existing registration method at all Fomema branches was still being continued to accommodate those employers who did not have internet facility.

News Source: TheSunDaily

 

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14 Nov

Malaysia Government To Speed Up Process To Hire Bangladesh Workers

Minister says dire shortage in three sectors, resulting in billions of ringgits of losses, has made Cabinet to call for urgency in addressing demand. The process of bringing new foreign workers from Bangladesh will be expedited to cover the shortage of workers in three sectors, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Mah Siew Keong said in an event last Friday.

mah-siew-keongHe added that the government was working with their Bangladeshi counterparts at the highest level to ensure that the demand was met for migrant workers as the plantation, rubber glove manufacturing and furniture sectors were in dire need of workers, The New Straits Times (NST) reported.

“Last week, the Cabinet directed Human Resources Minister Richard Riot Jaem to speed up the process of sourcing new hires from Bangladesh.

“My ministry is coordinating with relevant authorities to ease this problem so that you can meet the export orders,” Mah was quoted as saying at a dinner hosted by the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Furniture Industry Association in conjunction with its 60th anniversary in Subang.

Mah’s comments followed that of Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who told the Dewan Rakyat earlier last week of the impact the freeze on foreign workers had on the furniture and plantation sector so far this year.

On Nov 2, Zahid, who is also Home Minister, said Putrajaya’s decision to freeze the intake of foreign workers led to the furniture and plantation sector incurring losses of over RM7.7 billion this year.

The inability to hire sufficient manpower, Zahid said, saw the local furniture industry record RM6.7 billion in losses, while the plantation industry incurred losses of over RM1 billion.

Many furniture companies, he explained, were unable to deliver their products for the international market on time.

“The furniture exporters have signed agreements with foreign buyers but they cannot fulfil their obligations due to the insufficient workforce.

“I know that the furniture industry alone needs more than 8,000 Bangladeshi employees and they are waiting for the freeze on intake to be lifted due to production issues,” Zahid said in winding up the 2017 Budget for his ministry.

In February, the government suspended the recruitment of all legal foreign workers, including those from Bangladesh.

Then on May 12, Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai told the press that the Cabinet was lifting the freeze for the manufacturing, plantation, construction and furniture sectors.

Soon after that however, former Immigration Director-General Sakib Kusmi was quoted as saying that the easing up would begin only after the government concluded its exercise to legalise illegal foreign workers.

News Source: freemalaysiatoday.com

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12 Nov

Two Million Foreign Workers Hold Temporary Malaysia Working Permits

Almost two million foreign workers are holding valid temporary working permits in the country, the Dewan Rakyat was told.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said a total of 1,854,684 foreign workers were holding the Temporary Employment Pass (PLKS) issued by the Immigration Department as of Sept this year.

“The highest number is from Indonesia (749,226), followed by Nepal (411,364), Bangladesh (237,991), Myanmar (140,259), India (121,430) and others (194,374),” said Dr Ahmad Zahid, who is also the Home Minister, in a written reply to Lim Lip Eng (DAP-Segambut).

Lim had asked the government to reveal the total number of foreign workers and the policy in hiring them.

“The hiring of foreign workers is a temporary measure to fill the job vacancies. After the employment period is over, they are required to return back to their country of origin,” he said.

He noted that the government had made the decision on Feb 19 to suspend applications of new foreign workers including from Bangladesh until it completed the assessment on the real need of each industry.

“The levy imposed on foreign workers differs from each industry and was clustered according to its own categories,” he said.

Levy is set at RM1,850 for the first category, comprising the manufacturing, construction and service sector, said Dr Ahmad Zahid.

It is set at RM640 for the second category, comprising the agriculture and agro-industries, while for domestic helper, levy is set at RM410 per person.

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03 Nov

Malaysia Student Visa Approval Delays Leave Foreign Students In Limbo

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For most people, being able to pursue tertiary education overseas is a dream come true, but for a number of international students who came to Malaysia, it has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare. The students claim delays in obtaining student visas meant they were made to be in the country on tourist visas and missed classes – some up to nine weeks per semester – when they had to leave the country when their visas expired.

The students also claimed the higher education institutions did not refund them the fees for the classes they missed when they had to leave the country.

These students claimed that their problems started even before they arrived in Malaysia, as they did not receive their Visa Approval Letter (VAL) on time.

“Students, like myself, arrived on tourist visas and had to go out of Malaysia once we received the VAL, which caused unnecessary trouble and made us miss more classes,” one of the international students from University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) told Malaysiakini, on condition that he is not named.

By returning to Malaysia on a tourist visa, the students are actually attending classes illegally and exposed to unnecessary hassles from the Malaysian enforcement agencies.

“We weren’t informed about the risks associated with coming in on tourist visas. At the same time, there was hardly any update given to students while waiting for the VAL,” the student complained.

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Another student corroborated this. He said he did not know there were issues with his visa until he received a letter from the university instructing him to enter Malaysia on a tourist visa.

He had to leave the country each month as his tourist visa was valid for only 30 days.

“I returned to university next semester on a student visa after getting one, (but) you can get the idea of how hectic and unproductive the first semester would have been for us.

“We never expected such a start to our academic journey at UNMC and were disappointed with its unprofessional treatment,” he said.

The students lodged a complaint with the university and withheld payment for their second semester pending the visa issues.

They also sought compensation for the classes they missed because they had to travel outside the country when their tourist visa expired.

According to the students, the university deferred payment for the second semester pending their complaints but then went in “a complete silent mode”.

They only heard back from the university through a notice demanding the fees due, indicating the complaint was not notified to the relevant departments.

No fees, no scrolls
One student said there was initially an offer of a RM5,000 refund, but as graduation day rolled by, the students were told they needed to pay the fees due in order to receive their scrolls.

Most of the students had left the country after dissertation and had scheduled to return for the convocation ceremony.

“Since we wanted to end this journey (in Malaysia) on a good note, we had no other choice than to submit to their decision,” he said.

When contacted, UNMC said the complaints were dealt with fairly and according to university policy.

“We are not aware of any outstanding complaints. The circumstances that faced individual students varied considerably and as a consequence, any generalisation from individual cases, or indeed responses to generic allegations, is impossible,” UNMC chief executive director and provost Christine Ennew said.

Malaysiakini could not name the students and specify their exact cases to the university as the students requested anonymity pending the ongoing internal complaint process.

Ennew also said that there was a long history of international students facing difficulties in visa processing following system and policy changes made by the Malaysian government in 2013.

“The situation has been complicated by frequent changes to the implementation of policy and to the advice that is provided to institutions by the authorities,” she explained.

UNMC, she added, had experienced difficulties in dealing with the new system, which subsequently created problems for many international students, including delays in arrival and requirements to leave and re-enter.

She said other institutions have reported similar problems.

Academic vetting
A Higher Education Ministry spokesperson said the Education Malaysia Global Services (EMGS) was introduced in 2013 to manage international student visa applications, but stressed the EMGS only conducts the academic vetting.

Approval of student visas is under the Immigration Department’s purview, a ministry spokesperson said.

The spokesperson said higher education institutions must submit student visa applications at least six weeks before the start of class, while overall processing takes 14 days from submission date.

The application processing is transparent as students are able to track the progress of their application online, he said.

Even so, the ministry spokesperson said, delays may occur if the document submitted is incomplete so it is advisable to apply for student visa early.

“As such, in this particular matter, it is important for the students to inform EMGS to look into the matter,” he said.

He also warned international students against coming to Malaysia on a tourist visa as it goes against immigration regulations.

News source: Malaysiakini

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