From: krishna@iss.nus.sg (...Krishnamoorthy)
Subject: Indians passport holders need sponsorship to visit Malaysia
Originator: krishna@suliman
Keywords: Indians, sponsorship, visit, Malaysia
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:35:15 GMT



While uneasy calmness prevails in all over India under heavy security forces
vigilance, here is yet another interesting news for the Indian passport holders.

Well, let us continue to pull each others leg by means of shitty religions, 
castes, regions, etc. Let us happily watch others to overtake us in economic 
prosperity, and accept all the insult forth coming for being under developed 
and poor country.  May be, for us, Indian citizens, the seconds ticks in anti-
clockwise directions.  Is there any God/Devil/Force/Void will help us to 
wake up?

-Krishna
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               S.Lanka, sub-continent vistors now need sponsors
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      Misuse of passes forces Malaysia to impose `local sponsors' ruling

 (This news clipping extracted from the Straits Times, Singapore, Dec 14, 1992)

       
KUALA LUMPUR - Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan passport holders
  entering Malaysia will be required to have local sponsors from Wednesday, 
  according to a senior government official.

The Immigration Department's public relations officer, Mr.Mohammed Aris Chonin,
  said here on Saturday that they would have to apply for visas indicating 
  their prospective sponsors at Malaysian embassies at least two months before 
  their expected date of entry.

The application would then be forwarded to the Immigration Department head
  quarters here for approval. "This requirement will be imposed on all passport
  holders from the four countries regardless of their length or purpose of
  visit," Mr Mohammed Aris told.

He said it was aimed at ensuring that foreigners allowed into Malaysia would
  not misuse the passes issued to them or overstay. He produced figures to show
  that recently, many nationals of the four countries were overstaying or 
  working illegally in Malaysia.

From 1990 to June this year, a total of 638 Bangladeshis, 1,041 Indians, 392
  Pakistanis and 246 Sri Lankans had overstayed in Malaysia. During the same
  period, 35 Pakistanis, 24 Sri Lankans, 198 Bangladeshis and 82 Indians were
  found to have misused their social visit passes by working illegally. 

For the first six months of this year, among those caught entering Malaysia
  illegally and deported were 295 Indians, 318 Pakistanis, 64 Sri Lankans and
  570 Bangladeshis. Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba said last month that the
  sponsorship requrement would be imposed on foreigners who were likely to 
  breach the regulations of their stay in Malaysia. 

Mr Mohammed Aris said a sponsor must be a Malaysian or a permanent resident of
  Malaysia. It would be his responsibility to ensure that the foreigners comply
  with all the regulations under the Passport Act,1966 and Immigration Act, 
  1959/63.

A M$750(S$480) deposit for each foreigner must be paid by a prospective sponsor
  to the Immigration Department once the visa application is approved. Mr
  Mohammed Aris said the deposits were refundable once these was evidence that
  the visitors had left Malaysia. 

But if they should breach the immigration laws, then the deposits would be 
  confiscated and used to send the culprits back, he added. Malaysia's booming
  economy has attracted a flood of illegal immigrants from Indonesia, the
  Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh, among other 
  countries, in search of jobs. 

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