KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — Deputy Secretary-General for Consumer Empowerment of the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry Datuk Zakaria Shaaban has been appointed as the new Immigration Director-General, effective today.

KANGAR, Sept 17 — A total of 23,890 Malaysians were recorded exiting the country to Thailand through two border crossings in Perlis, namely the Immigration, Customs, Quarantine, and Security Complex (ICQS) in Padang Besar and Wang Kelian in conjunction with the school holidays and Malaysia Day yesterday.

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 14 — The Immigration Department arrested 16 foreigners in an operation at a premises converted into an illegal entertainment centre in Puchong yesterday.

JERTIH, Sept 13 — The operating hours at all 72 passport-issuing offices and counters of the Immigration Department nationwide will be extended by three hours during next week’s school holidays.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — The Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department detained 1,952 illegal immigrants and 109 employers who hired them through various operations from January to August.

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 6 — Three Malaysians, believed to be masterminds of the illegal Immigration agent syndicate, were among eight individuals arrested in a special operation by the Malaysian Immigration Department in Putrajaya, Selangor, and Kuala Lumpur.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 — The Immigration Department has extended the visas of four family members of the Jalan Masjid India sinkhole victim by a month.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 22 — The Immigration Department arrested 213 foreigners who committed various immigration-related offences after raiding a nightclub in a building near Jalan Raja Chulan early this morning.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 — The Immigration Department detained 14 foreign nationals in an operation to combat human trafficking and migrant smuggling at two restaurants in Shah Alam yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 — The Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department arrested 38 illegal immigrants, comprising 29 men and nine women, in raids on two condominium blocks in the city at 12.15am today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 — The Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department raided an entertainment centre in Jalan Sultan Ismail today and detained 27 foreign nationals — nine women and 18 men, in a ‘super VIP’ karaoke room which charges a fee of RM200,000.

PUTRAJAYA, July 31 — The Court of Appeal has ordered three Immigration officers, including a woman, to enter their defence against charges of smuggling nine Bangladeshi migrants at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang seven years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, July 27 — A total of 117 individuals including 85 foreign women working as guest relations officers (GROs) were detained by the Immigration Department in a special operation carried out on seven locations in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, and Seri Kembangan in Selangor on Wednesday and Thursday (July 24 and July 25).

KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 — A total of 34 illegal immigrants, including a woman, were arrested in immigration raids carried out along Jalan Ipoh for various offences today.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — The Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department raided a row of six business premises in Kampung Masjid Jalan Segambut Dalam today and arrested 11 foreign nationals.

SEPANG, July 23 — The Expatriate Satellite Centre (ESC) has expanded its operations to Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Terminal 2 to increase Malaysia's attractiveness to investors and attract highly skilled talents, following the success of the operations at Terminal 1.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 — The Malaysia Border Control and Protection Agency Bill 2024, aimed at establishing the Malaysia Checkpoints and Border Agency (MCBA), was passed in the Dewan Rakyat today.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — The Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department detained 40 illegal immigrants in a luxury apartment in Brickfields during a four-hour operation which ended at 4am today.

PORT KLANG, June 24 — The Selangor branch of the Malaysian Immigration Department (JIM) screened about 1,700 foreign nationals in an integrated operation in a housing area in Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad 38, Bandar Sultan Suleiman here yesterday.

LABUAN, May 27 — The Federal Territories Department will focus on resolving the prolonged IMM13 issues on the duty-free island and the dumping of foreign immigrants in Kuala Lumpur.