Govt’s migrant recalibration scheme to continue till year-end

 

Home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail says more than 410,000 undocumented immigrants have signed up to be regularised as legal foreign workers as of Dec 31 last year. (Bernama pic)

PUTRAJAYA: The federal government will continue implementing the undocumented migrant recalibration programme until the end of the year, says home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

Saifuddin said the conditions to register for the programme will be more flexible, though the nation’s security will not be jeopardised.

Previously, the programme, which went on until Dec 31, 2022, saw more than 410,000 undocumented immigrants sign up to be regularised as legal foreign workers.

“At the same time, 295,425 undocumented migrants were sent back to their home countries under the programme,” he told a press conference today after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim chaired a special meeting on the management of foreign workers in Malaysia.

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