This final step of renewing your maid’s work permit at the Immigration is almost too simple to blog about.
This is the Immigration Department of Malaysia’s Official Website.
Where?
The headquarters of the Department of Immigration, Malaysia (Ministry of Home Affairs) is in Putrajaya. You can renew your maid’s work permit at any State Immigration Office. We did ours at the Wilayah Persekutuan of KL State Immigration Office at this address:
Jabatan Imigresen Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Aras 3, Blok I
Pusat Bandar Damansara
50550 Kuala Lumpur
Telefon: 20905632
How much?
The levy is RM445 to extend the maid’s work permit for a period of one (1) year.
Take note that as of time of writing, if you are renewing your maid’s work permit in Putrajaya, you will need to pay by bank draft, postal order or money order payable to Ketua Pengarah Imigresen Malaysia, if I am not mistaken. (You should always check the payee name by calling up the Imigration Department). However, the state Immigration Department of Wilayah Persekutuan KL accepts cash so I paid in cash. It’s easier for me. I don’t know about other states.
What to bring?
You will have to bring along with you, your maid’s new passport (if you have one), bring along your your maid’s old passport too together with the levy amount.
After checking that our maid has passed her medical screening tests online at FOMEMA, we headed to the Immigration office. All it took was 15 minutes on a weekday morning, first thing in the morning and we’re done.
Next, a summary of all the steps required to renew your maid’s work permit yourself.
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Am thinking of getting a Cambodian maid so will check on your blog for some useful references.
How lucky I am to come across your blog! Thank you for presenting your experience step by step. It will be a great help when I renew my maid’s work permit. Just one question, how early can you apply for a renewal of the work permit? My maid’s current permit runs out in the 3rd week of October.
Thanks again!
Hello Swee Lian, my maid’s permit expires in July, early this month in fact
, I renewed in June. I renewed the passport in April or May but didn’t have time to do the health checks and permit till June. I suppose it is better to be one or two month’s ahead to give yourself room for error but not too far ahead since the passport date will start from date of renewal.
i will like to know the actual step to renew my cambodia maid.. i’m staying in jb.. the maid agency cause a bomb.. pls show me the step to renew the work permit..i would like to renew it by my self… pls reply asap…thank you.
You can check out this link. http://mumsgather.com/?s=renew+maids+work+permit
Hello, thanks for the informative write up. Would like to understand better, at the immigration, what’s the process like? I mean, do we need something from Fomema to prove that my maid has done the check up? Or is it with the passport no. the Immigration Dept would be able to check?
Appreciate your prompt reply.
Thanks!
Hi, you can read my old post below for a better idea.
http://mumsgather.com/2010/06/25/renewing-maids-work-permit-yourself-a-step-by-step-summary-of-the-process/
Hi, fast response wow. Thanks!
I did go through your old post but would like to know besides the passport (old/new) what else do we need to bring to the Immigration Dept? There is no printed confirmation from Fomema about my maid’s health screen, so how does the Immigration know that she has already passed?
Thanks!
Haha. Just so happens I was online, otherwise you may not get a response for weeks! No there is no printed confirmation from Fomema because it is online. You check for your worker’s health status online and that info is transmitted online to Immigration as well. Hope that helps.
Oh and I got this from Fomema’s website:
“Transmission of medical results are transmitted independently and electronically, thus averting physical handling or tampering of medical reports by employers or agents thus ensuring integrity of the health-screening system.
Centralised electronic transmission of results to facilitate the employers’ application or renewal of their foreign workers’ permit in a timely manner.”
Ahhhhh…… thanks again. You’ve been a great help!! *thumbs up*
Just wondering… about going to the Immi office to renew my maid’s work permit – won’t the employer (the husband) need to sign the form in person? It’s usually the wife who attends to this matter, but since the wife is officially not the employer but the husband is, would the husband have to sign renewal forms at the Immi office? I’ve checked the immigration’s official website and there is no form for work permit renewal for foreign maids.
Yes, the husband (employer) has to sign. What you can do is get your husband to send you there in the morning, you collect the forms, he signs, then you can do the rest.
Hi, for the immigration department, do i need to bring the maid along?
hi, appreciated your step on the maid renewal working permit…good information. I’m going to renew my maid for 3rd year, but wonder how to buy the insurance, cause the first two years the contract with agent was including the insurance. Any suggestion?
Hi See Mun, I did not buy any insurance as it is optional so afraid I can’t help you very much there since I have no practical experience myself.
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Hi!.. I would like to share this vital info with you.
please beware of some of the cunning and conniving Cambodian maids who come to work in Malaysia with a motive… that is they will work for 1-2 months and then start to cook up “rape’ stories about their employer’s husband or any male person in their employer’s family. Then they will behave like they are really abused by scratching themselves and biting their own body parts to have some proof to show to their cambodian interpreter or agent and the police when they get the opportunity to make a false report with their agents. Then to make a fast exit from the employer’s home… they will demand that they want to be compensated otherwise they will make or press charges ( like they are the victims of rape). They will go calmly to make a false police report and it does not bother their conscience that their employer has spent a lot of money…treated them like family, and wasted a lot of effort and time to bring them into MALAYSIA legally as Maids. The poor employer who is not prepared for the maids accusations has to go through sress and anxiety to redeem his good name and of course the maid knows she will be the winner,so she demands for a year’s pay… even tho she has worked for 1-2 months only. Then the maid agency cooly will submit the rogue Maid’s name to the immigration dept, for an exit memo, but does the maid exit out of the country. No way…. she will be recycled off to another unsuspecting employer in another faraway place. such tactics are going on with these days… so people , please be aware of cambodians Maids who look so innocent and pretending they know no English or malaysian cuastoms, yet some of them are great experts in the act of pretending to get money. making false police reports are their forte!
Hi See Mun,
I recently bought insurance for my maid via Koo Agency, which is an authorised agent of MAA. I checked around and MAA is probably the only insurance co.that provides this service! You can google Koo Agency and MAA find out more. I did everything online and their service was prompt and efficient.
The annual premium: 1year RM60, 2years RM80. Hope this info. helps.
Thanks for the info.
Hi madam,
I just have a question about renewal of my working permit..am frm philippines my work permit ends on 30th of this month june and my passport expires on jan 15 2012..can I still renew my working permit this month and renew my passport on oct this year?..plz need ur info thanks.
Hello Lorena, I haven’t any experience with the processes involved for workers from Philippines. For Indonesian workers, I was not allowed to renew the work permit without renewing the passport because the work permit would extend beyond the passport expiry period. However, I think the best people to ask would be your Philippines Embassy. They should provide you with the answers you need. Good Luck.
my permit already expire for 2 year. Can i renew now?
Best to check with the embassy.
Hi, the maid insurance can be bought from any bank. The nearest to Indonesia Embassy is RHB, across the road. The renewal for Passport is only RM15, incl photos and photocopy of docu. You need to apply for the Formema form with a bank draft from the bank (downstairs), use the new passport so that you don’t hv to transfer the result again when applying for work permit. See the doc, then return to immigration after the Formema results is available. Pay for the work permit. The process is actually quite fast.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi, need a little information. Do I need to cancel my maid’s work permit when I leave the country? I am a Indian, and I have a filipino maid. I may leave Malaysia earlier than intended. Do i need to get her WP cancelled as well? what happens if I dont cancel it?
Hello NG, I think the best thing to do is to check with your maid’s agent, Filipino Embassy or the Ministry of Human Resources. Good Luck.
Hi, i just would like to know is renewing the industry workers are same as the maid procedure. My boss suddenly don’t want go through agent, so i need to settle it. I have 4 Indonesia workers and their work permit end by 25th October. I need some advise. Do you know where i can get the Insurance (IG) form? Thank You.
Hi Jazlyn, It is better that you enquire with the Indonesian Embassy and the Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia and ask them about Foreign Worker, not Foreign Domestic Helper procedure.
i just renew my cambodia maid passport in jln u thant,pls advise where to renew her yearly work visa by myself,coz agent charge a boom,im staying in kepong area…tks
Best to check with the Imigration Dept. All the best.
my cambodia maid has been working for me 4 years,how much do i need to pay the yearly visa or levy,agent charges is rm800???will it be cheaper i do myself//
Wow. RM800 is a lot of money. Sorry, I am not sure about Cambodia Maid. I renewed myself for Indon maid.
Hi! I have just renew levy visa for my cambodia maid through online myeg service! Woh! Myeg service is so efficient service & realible company! Anyone who want a renewal maid services, i would recomemend myeg… & service charge is cheaper then maid agent!!! Myeg keep it up….
We recently renewed our Filipino maid’s work permit on our own. We paid RM516 cash to Immigration at the Sri Hartamas branch. No photos were required and no need to bring the maid along. Maybe because the employer handled the application in person, it took only 15mins.
Your blog helped us a lot in handling the whole renewal on our own, including medical check-up. Thank you so much.
can someone help to clarify how much i need to pay for Filipino maid’s renewal of permit for second year
My Cambodian maid is a horror story, very lazy, never do any work until being told, like to watch tv always whenever we are at work and enjoy eating, finished all your meats and foods in the cabinet (although told not to)
Beware of Cambodian maid esp the dark skin, good in stealing and lying
Hi,
Is there a minimum period of working that the Cambodian maid need to go home (leave passage)? There’s no mention in the contract..
Thanks.
I’m sorry chan, I’m not an agency, just a blogger. Try the Cambodian Embassy?
Hi, just want to ask is there any new policy in immigration that we cnt renew our maid visa if we dont get insurance? Is it necessary?..just heard frm a friend that just effective january 2012.
pls need ur advice tq.