TOKYO, May 9 — Japan's lower house of Parliament during a plenary session on Tuesday passed a contentious bill to amend an immigration law allowing authorities to deport foreign nationals who apply for refugee status multiple times, reported Xinhua.

GEORGE TOWN, April 9 — The Malaysian Immigration Department (JIM) has issued as many as 2.8 million passports since post-Covid-19, which is a four-fold increase, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

PUTRAJAYA, April 5 — The Immigration Department has busted an illegal money-changing syndicate masterminded by foreigners in a special operation in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor on April 2 and April 3.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 5 — There are a total of 134,978 police personnel and officers nationwide as of February 28, the Dewan Negara sitting was told yesterday.

TRENTON, March 23 — Canada’s population, spurred by immigration, jumped by over 1 million last year, the largest increase since the Second World War baby boom, Statistics Canada (StatCan) reported on Wednesday (March 22).

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 — The temporary employment visit pass (PLKS) fee for foreign fishermen has been reduced to RM320 per person in the agricultural sector for the first six months.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 — A total of 20 Passport Issuing Offices, apart from the Urban Transformation Centres (UTC), will operate seven days a week starting Friday in efforts to overcome congestion at Immigration counters.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 24 — The Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry has called for an increase in  the number of immigration counter staff and ramping up the use of facial recognition to improve immigration screening procedures at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

LABUAN, Dec 5 — The hotly-debated immigration checks at the Labuan roll-on roll-off (ro-ro) ferry terminal will fully be conducted through a drive-thru concept beginning tomorrow (December 6).

SEPANG, Nov 15 — The use of the automated entry system (autogate) at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) is open to foreigners who hold a long-term visit pass effective today.

ISKANDAR PUTERI, June 22 — The Johor Immigration Department has been put on alert to conduct a thorough inspection on travellers entering the country border, following reports of a case of monkeypox in Singapore.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — The Immigration Department detained 49 immigrants for various offences including not having valid travel documents and passes suspected to be fake, in an operation at a condominium in Ampang, here last night.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 20 — A total of 528 Rohingya detainees escaped from the temporary Immigration Detention Depot in Sungai Bakap, Penang at 4.30am today.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 20 — Three foreign men and a local man were arrested for allegedly operating a fraudulent outsourcing syndicate to make a profit of RM2 million from the government’s Labour Recalibration Programme (RTK).

PUTRAJAYA, April 7 — A total of 252,730 travellers were recorded to have entered and left Malaysia through the main entry points over a four-day period since the re-opening of the country's border on April 1, said Immigration Director-General Datuk Seri Khairul Dzaimee Daud.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — The Malaysian Immigration Department has prepared 970,000 passport books for the renewal of the Malaysian International Passport following the reopening of the country's borders this April 1.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 — The Immigration Department is ready for the implementation of the ‘Vaccinated Travel Lane’ (VTL) which is scheduled to begin on November 29.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 6 — The Immigration Department is ready in terms of systems, passport supply and manpower for the reopening of the country’s borders, its director-general Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud said.

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 14 — The time taken to process a MyTravelPass (MTP) application has to be increased to 14 days from seven due to the high number of applications received.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 — All new applications for the Malaysia My Second Home Programme (MM2H) will be processed and managed by the Immigration Department (JIM) beginning October after all related legal processes are completed.