Expatriate passes, foreign worker permits and domestic helper placements, in Sarawak and in Peninsular Malaysia. The two jurisdictions run on separate rules and separate systems, and we’re licensed and registered for both. If your case won’t be approved as it stands, you’ll hear that from us before you pay anything.
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Semiconductor, engineering, logistics, retail and food and beverage employers, in Peninsular Malaysia and in Sarawak.
Every one of these is its own application, with its own authority, its own documents and its own clock. Pick the wrong one and you don’t amend it. You start again.
Filed with Sarawak Immigration, on the state’s own platform. If your expatriate already holds a federal pass from Kuala Lumpur, it does nothing for them in Kuching.
The federal pass, in three salary categories. Thresholds doubled on 1 June 2026, so a role that qualified last year may not qualify now.
For short assignments where your employee stays on a foreign payroll. Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia each want their own application.
For the spouse and children who come too, and for the relatives an Employment Pass can’t sponsor.
Your company registers before anyone applies. No ESD registration, no federal expatriate pass, however good the candidate is.
The quota fixes how many workers you may hire, from which countries, in which sector. It comes before recruitment, and there’s no shortcut back.
A helper permit makes you an employer, with the statutory duties that come with that. Most of the trouble we’re called in to fix starts with a household that didn’t know it. These four steps are where it usually goes wrong.
RM17,800 before salary: placement, levy, security bond, insurance and screening, and the same figure whether she comes from Indonesia or the Philippines. Twelve months of wages sits on top and comes to a similar amount again. There’s no HAVEN fee in there, because Sarawak isn’t charging one yet.
Your helper keeps her own passport, always. An employer holding it is not a house rule you get to set. It is unlawful.
Read the household employer guideThey tend to come to us because they care about transparency and accountability. Here’s what that looks like on a live file.
Elaine trained and practises as an advocate, so she reads a policy circular the way a lawyer reads a contract. Daniel builds the workflows and the tracking behind every file, so you can see where yours has got to instead of ringing to ask. That’s the whole team, and it’s why applications go in complete.
If your case won’t be approved on the facts you have, you hear it at the quote stage, with what would need to change. That costs you an hour. Finding out from the department costs you three months and the fee.
Sarawak put labour quota on SANSOLS, expatriates on EXPRT and domestic helpers on HAVEN. Peninsular Malaysia doubled expatriate salary thresholds on 1 June 2026, announced in January with five months’ notice. We were filing right through all of it, and this site gets updated as each change lands.
One staffed office. Two jurisdictions. We’d rather say that plainly than imply a national footprint we don’t have.
Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm
Virtual office, so there’s nobody here to walk in on. Federal cases are filed from Kuching, with part-time runners in Kuala Lumpur.
Elaine Sim writes or reviews everything here before it goes up, and rechecks it at least once a year. In a bad year Malaysian policy moves faster than that, so if something here reads out of date, tell us.
Describe your situation and you’ll hear back which pass fits it, what it costs and how long it takes. If it’s something we can’t do, or shouldn’t do, you’ll get that answer instead.
