{"id":18825,"date":"2019-08-28T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/?p=18825"},"modified":"2019-08-28T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:25:32","slug":"malaysia-immigration-update-additional-updates-from-mdec-malaysia-digital-economy-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/?p=18825","title":{"rendered":"MALAYSIA IMMIGRATION UPDATE &#8211; Additional Updates from MDEC (Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1><strong>Additional Updates from MDEC (Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Further to the announcement made by on 19 Oct, MDEC has clarified and clearly identified the process improvements to take effect on <strong>15 Nov 2017<\/strong>for <u>both<\/u>ICT and MSC status companies separately.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>PROCESSING TIMES &amp; REVISED MDEC CHARGES<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>All illustrations are provided by MDEC\u00a0and our interpretations are summarized below\u00a0\u2013<\/p>\n<p><b>For ICT Companies<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\" style=\"border-radius:5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"204\" title=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.png\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-18826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-200x42.png 200w, https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-400x84.png 400w, https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-600x126.png 600w, https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-800x168.png 800w, https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.png 969w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><ul>\n<li>Company assessment which essentially means Company Registration with MDEC remains unchanged at a 1-month processing time. The Registration only needs to be done once.<\/li>\n<li>The process for approval will take 7 working days and will include approvals from both MDEC and the Immigration Department. Stage 1 and Stage 2 processes have essentially been combined reducing the processing time from the current 10-15 working days to 7 working days.<\/li>\n<li>We were advised that the application paperwork of both Stages will also be combined.<\/li>\n<li>The endorsement of passes i.e. Stage 3 by the Immigration Department will take 2 working days. This is the current practice already.<\/li>\n<li>The new charges below are for up to a duration of 3 years, regardless of what is applied for or what is approved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"table-1\">\n<table style=\"height: 313px;\" width=\"957\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SERVICES (NEW AND RENEWAL)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TOTAL PAYABLE<\/strong><br \/>\n(inclusive of 6% GST)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>EMPLOYMENT PASS (EP)<br \/>\n(inclusive services of <strong>TRANSFER OF ENDORSEMENT (TOE) AND CANCELLATION OF PASSES<\/strong>)<br \/>\n<em>Note: Duration up to three (3) years<\/em><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RM2,968<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>DEPENDANT PASS (DP)<\/strong> and <strong>SOCIAL VISIT PASS<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RM530<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>AMENDMENT OF APPROVAL LETTER<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RM106<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p><\/br><br \/>\n<b>For MSC Companies<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\" style=\"border-radius:5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"974\" height=\"237\" title=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.png\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-18829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-200x49.png 200w, https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-400x97.png 400w, https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-600x146.png 600w, https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-800x195.png 800w, https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3.png 974w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 974px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><ul>\n<li>No Company assessment \/ registration required.<\/li>\n<li>The process for approval will take 7 working days and will include the approval from both MDEC and the Immigration Department.<\/li>\n<li>The endorsement of passes by the Immigration Department will take 2 working days.<\/li>\n<li>Stage 1 of the process has been increased from 3 to 7 working days, seemingly taking into the account the much longer original processing time of Stage 2 which will now be shortened to 2 working days.<\/li>\n<li>The new charges below are for up to a duration of 3 years, regardless of what is applied for or what is approved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"table-1\">\n<table style=\"height: 322px;\" width=\"975\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SERVICES (NEW AND RENEWAL)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TOTAL PAYABLE<\/strong><br \/>\n(inclusive of 6% GST)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>EMPLOYMENT PASS (EP)<br \/>\n(inclusive services of <strong>TRANSFER OF ENDORSEMENT (TOE) AND CANCELLATION OF PASSES<\/strong>)<br \/>\n<em>Note: Duration up to three (3) years<\/em><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RM2,120<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>DEPENDANT PASS (DP)<\/strong> and <strong>SOCIAL VISIT PASS<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RM530<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>AMENDMENT OF APPROVAL LETTER<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RM106<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><p>The other updates remain unchanged as announced on 19 Oct 2017 i.e.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>ONLINE PAYMENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>All payments to MDEC and Immigration are non-refundable and must be made online. Banker\u2019s cheque\/bank draft will no longer be accepted.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>IMPROVED WEBSITE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>MDEC has enhanced its website designed for better user experience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expats.com.my\/\">www.expats.com.my<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For further enquires, feel free to reach out to your friendly neighborhood partner, The Corporate Lab at <a href=\"mailto:askus@the-corporate-lab.com\">askus@the-corporate-lab.com<\/a> or call +6012-215 7424.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[231,200,241,243,234,242,233,218,246,238,239,230,229,232,166,245,247,237,244,240],"class_list":["post-18825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaysia-immigration-update-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18834,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18825\/revisions\/18834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18825"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=18825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}