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VII. The Foreign Spouses System

19. Approval for the employment of foreign spouses will be vested in MOHR. The
approval process will be incorporated into a segment of the online application and approval
system. The online system will cater for both foreign spouses of Malaysians and foreign
spouses of expatriates. The online system will include a statutory declaration attesting that the
official documentation of marriage has been registered with the relevant Malaysian
authorities and meet the conditions and requirements for employment application. These
conditions and requirement will be provided in the online system.

20. The approval for employment will be provided by the online system within the
process duration period establish. Upon approval with a unique identifier the online system
will notify the Immigration Department. The approval for employment will be open ended
and will not be linked to the validity of the LTSVP or Expatriate Spouse Employment Pass.

21. A foreign spouse must record any change in status through the online system. For
LTSVP this involves a change in status to widow or divorcee that meets the conditions and
requirements for continued employment. For a foreign spouse of expatriates, a change in
status to widow or divorcee will result in the employment approval becoming invalid. In any
case, the employment approval will become invalid if the change in status involves the
foreign spouse leaving Malaysia permanently.

22. In the future, upon meeting all the conditions and requirements as established for
residing in Malaysia, the Immigration Department is to issue a LTSVP or the Expatriate
Spouse Employment Pass only with the following endorsements: “Employment Permitted
Upon Official Authorization” The duration and renewal of these residential permits will
follow the established guidelines. The LTSVP is to be in digital form and issued on line.

23. The online foreign spouse module will have the capability to issue standard
digitalized ID cards specific to a foreign spouse, including virtual Smart online IDs sourced
from biometric information and the registered foreign spouse unique ID number stored in the
online database. All enforcement officers must give recognition to this foreign spouse Smart
ID card. Enforcement authorities must no longer demand sight of hardcopy IDs like passports
whose absence currently constitute an offense.

VIII. The Foreign Internship System

24. MOHR working with the current agencies involved and MOHA through a
subcommittee will manage the foreign internships program. A module will be designed for
management of foreign interns to be integrated into the single online application and approval
system. Information from the foreign intern module will feed into the central database of the
system.

25. With the online system the SOP of all agencies with oversight and regulatory roles
will be standardised. An algorithm for approval, including the use of a dependency ratio
quota mechanism (similar to the PLKS worker multi-tier levy system) will be developed and
built into the module to remove as much as possible discretion in the decision making process

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