New deadline for 6P exercise
PUTRAJAYA: The deadline for the legalisation process of illegal foreign workers under the 6P amnesty exercise has been extended to April 10, five months after the first deadline was announced.
This is the third extension after the initial Oct 10 deadline last year.
The amnesty programme was extended to Jan 10 and Feb 15 following appeals from employers who said the one-month extension was insufficient for them to prepare the necessary documents for their employees.
Yesterday, Home Ministry secretary-general Tan Sri Mahmood Adam said a mass operation to arrest illegal workers and their employers would be launched after the new deadline.
“We acknowledge that more time is needed to prepare the documents, especially the passports which are processed by the embassies.
“With the extension, employers who had yet to submit the applications to legalise their illegal workers should do so immediately,” he said in a statement yesterday.
The Government had estimated that 1.3 million illegal immigrants failed to register under the programme.
As of Monday, 379,020 illegal immigrants working for 33,053 employers had been legalised.
Mahmood said 94,856 of them had returned to their countries.
The programme involved six phases: registration (Aug 1 to 31, 2011), legalisation, amnesty, supervision, enforcement and deportation.
Meanwhile, Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said the authorities would deal with the potential shortage of foreign workers once the amnesty programme ended.
“Those (migrant workers) who are in the system (will be) recognised.
“Those who are not, you will have to deal with it (the enforcement),” he said.
Dr Subramaniam had earlier announced a two-year grace period for employers with legalised foreign workers to reorganise their labour needs.
He said the move was to reduce dependency on foreign workers in line with the country's aim to become a high-income nation.
မေလးရွား- STAR NEWS
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