They are given tests before they enter the country, apparently passed the tests there but failed the second medical test here.

btw, i’m also new at your blog and read this post. by any chance your agent starts with a P?

i just applied for a maid too from this agent last month and expecting her to come in by mid June. when u said the maid’s pay is btw 500-570, it jst came 2 my mind coz this is also wht i’m paying with this agent. and ppl hv been telling me why i chose them coz they seem to be quite expensive compared to the rest but i had no choice, i was desperate and our friend recommended them. and i got no time to hunt around for agents.

it is my 1st time doing this and i hope i wont face any problems whn my maid comes.

Hi Syn. Its my 1st time too and yes its P. I thought that a bigger one would give me lesser problems. Haha. Did you read my previous post about what to do when the maid arrives? The maid employer experts has given very good pointers for us newbies at hiring maids.

Bring in the maid themselves then transfer the names? I was told earlier on when I checked that they do not practise bringing in the maid under their own name but under employer. I guess some agents do that but they informed upfront that they did not. The ones available for transfer are usually brought in by under other employers then rejected for some reason. Anyway, I’ll check again. Thanks.

No extra fee, just extra waiting time. I am sure your luck won’t be as bad as mine. My sis has had many maid over the years and this has never happened to her before. Hahaha.

maybe the next one will be better! And thank God at least they found out before sending to you. Else I am not sure…would you have to take care of her in the end? And pay for her medical bills?

At any rate…better have to wait than more mah fan! Stay cool!!!

You are so right Ann. The thought of paying for her medical bills is not so scary (we’d have to pay for it anyway) as the thought of bringing someone with an infectious decease into your home with little children around.

It is very much depending on where (in indonesia) your agency “source” the maid from. Some sourced from agents in indonesia, some sourced directly from kampung. So for those that from agency, the agency in indonesia would have to do a check for the maid first before flying them over. The cost is bond by the maid (the deduction of their first 6 mths salary). A 2nd check is done in Malaysia. To ensure the quality of the maid, it is better if your agent sourced the maid from bigger agency in Indonesia coz the maids would have gone through trainings and properly selected. Also, they are more choices for them to select if your agent sourced from agency.

I believe your agency sourced directly themselves. I wonder can you ask for money back and look for another agency. Or you can question them properly how come this thing can happen. I’m just worried if this thing can happen, would the maid’s quality also cannot be trusted in this case…

Thanks for the info. They have their own training center in Indonesia. The maids in the camp there are sourced from agents or on their own. The local agents there were supposed to have conducted a first medical. This is the second. Its just my bad luck. The usual waiting time would probably be 6 weeks too in normal cases. I applied during the holiday season of Christmas and CNY. Agent told me not to take those that were available at the time as those are the ones that people did not want. She asked me to wait for their new biodata which I did and then this happened.

I have no experience with maids agency…so the above is just my wild thoughts. I sure hope you will get a good one soon.

The process is, we are given a few biodatas to choose from, we pick one, then they bring in the one we pick and do a medical on her before handing her over. I have my own wild thoughts. Haha. They’ve decided to use her for other illegal purposes. Do you know that a maid’s salary is about RM500-Rm570 but an illegal worker at a restaurant is RM1,000-RM1,300. No wonder they run away. They have incentive to do so don’t you think?

Good luck..

Yes, I am sure a replacement can probably be arranged if we express our unhappiness but that is not what I want. But thats just me la..

I was advised told not to take “ready” maids because those are mostly reject maids unless one is really urgent and can’t help it of course. The agent cannot bring in ready maids without an employer so the ready ones are those that have been brought in previously by a past employer but returned to the agent because of mismatched expectations.