{"id":18848,"date":"2019-08-28T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/?p=18848"},"modified":"2019-08-28T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:09:08","slug":"malaysia-immigration-update-projection-of-foreign-knowledge-workers-fkw-for-2019-at-mdec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/?p=18848","title":{"rendered":"MALAYSIA IMMIGRATION UPDATE &#8211;\u00a0Projection of Foreign Knowledge Workers (FKW) for 2019 at MDEC"},"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>Projection of Foreign Knowledge Workers (FKW) for 2019 at MDEC<\/h1>\n<h2><strong>What\u2019s happening?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Application for the 2019 Projection of Foreign Knowledge Workers (FKW) Expatriates is now open for submission at the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation(MDEC).<\/li>\n<li>Companies who are registered with MDEC can start to apply for their 2019 projection for both new applications and renewal<\/li>\n<li>The processing time is between 5 \u2013 10 working<\/li>\n<li>Any unutilized projection approved for 2018 will not be carried forward for<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>How to Apply?<\/h2>\n<p>Applications must be made online at the eXpats MDEC portal with the company\u2019s respective login ID.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s the impact?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Companies who are scheduled to have expatriates and\/or short-term assignees in Malaysia in 2019 must have the FKW projection approved and available in the eXpats portal before any Employment Pass (EP) applications (new and renewal) can be<\/li>\n<li>If the projection is not applied for in advance, an additional 1 \u2013 2 weeks will be added onto the processing time of the EP application which is about 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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":[140],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaysia-immigration-update-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848","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=18848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18849,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848\/revisions\/18849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18848"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-corporate-lab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=18848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}