Visa Acquisition Service

Employee pass is for an individual employee belonging to a company, a company's branch, a subsidiary company, which is registered in Malaysia, and also for those who are considered to be a skilled worker or working on management level in a company. There are 3 types of categories of requirements that outline minimum wage, contract term, etc, for instance, if an applicant's contract is to be more than 1 year, the minimum wage requirement of RM5,000 has to be met.
There is no age limitation as far the requirements go but an applicant is required to have relevant job experiences and qualifications for the role. It is difficult for junior high school and high school graduates to meet the requirements. An applicant must have graduated from a university as well as have 3 years of experience in a relevant job field.
The employer is required to make an application for their employees' either new or renewal employee pass. However, this application process is commonly commissioned to an outside consulting agency.
Here are the steps of the visa application process as the first person who comes to Malaysia to start up their business. To obtain a work visa you need to register your company first, now in Malaysia for almost all business sectors, in the case of 100% foreign fund support, with only 2 foreigners(Japanese) you can register your company so you do not necessarily need to find local partners in Malaysia. To register your company you are required to have a fund of RM2 in assets and this registration process is conducted by the company secretary and completed relatively simply within 1 year.
For instance, there is no problem if your business is to be located in Malaysia and hire Malaysians locally but in most of the cases either your Japanese subsidiary company to be located in Malaysia and someone from Japan to be allocated for overseeing the production or you are the ones, as a start-up business owner, to be located in Malaysia, you are required to obtain a visa. It is worth mentioning here that the past few years visa requirements are harder to be met on account of the Malaysian government's effort to protect jobs for its people.

As it is mentioned above, to protect local jobs it is now increasingly harder every year to obtain work visas. Especially for existing businesses with locally hired manpower and jobs, the government thinks to be fulfilled by local people are among the hardest. Taking all these into consideration, first of all, it is important to present your applicants as experienced as well as skilled and importantly it has to be seen as an advantage for the Malaysian government. In some business sectors, local employees have to outnumber foreign employees for the employee to be eligible to hire foreign employees. The regulations and requirements change so often that it depends on the decision from the immigration office, for instance, the required background colour of the official applicant's picture sometimes changes from blue to white and vice versa and due to the change sometimes an application is rejected. You might find it funny but this is why it is important to be up to date with the regulations and requirements for the visa.
As for the time frame after the application, until the receipt of visa granted, this varies from a little over 1 month to as long as 6 months and sometimes an application gets rejected. In most cases, the visa is granted with 2 years' validity but again this is getting harder, due to the applicant's experience and education level sometimes, they give you only 1 year of validity.
Lastly, you need to go to the right agency in possession of experiences, knowledge as well as familiarity with government officials. It is usually time-consuming and arduous for you to tackle this mission on your own and worst of all you get no visa, so best to find an experienced visa agency.