Effective January 1, 2025, companies that are registered with Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) may submit their Foreign Knowledge Worker (FKW) quota request for Employment Pass (EP) for the Year 2025.
Submissions will be auto approved. Companies are required to provide relevant justifications upon submitting their FKW quota requests.
Kindly take note that the projected FKW quota submitted must be utilized within the current year and cannot be carried forward to the following year. As such, any FKW headcount request in 2024 will be forfeited by December 31, 2024.
Companies can continue to apply for quotas throughout 2025 when required.
For companies registered with the Expatriate Services Department (ESD), 2025 quota projections have been accepted since December 1, 2024.
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