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Malaysia stops visa on arrival for Indians

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Posted: May 30, 2008 at 1350 hrs IST

Kuala Lumpur, May 30: Malaysia has withdrawn visa-on-arrival facility to Indians and Bangladeshis who will now need a two-week social visit pass and a return ticket if they wish to visit the country.

Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar said the proposed new ruled were among measures taken to overcome the problem of illegal immigrants.

"The social visit pass replaces the visas-on-arrival (VOA) which was discontinued in April," Syed Hamid told Parliament on Thursday.

The VOA facility has also been withdrawn for tourists from Bangladesh, he was quoted as saying by New Straits Times.

Under the VOA, 208,451 tourists were allowed in the country from January till March this year.

The social visit pass must be obtained at the tourists' home country.

Malaysia relies heavily on foreign workers who number about 2.1 million, half of them Indonesians. About 140,000 are Indians, 330,000 are from Bangladesh and 260,000 Nepalese, the paper said.

However, authorities say that many foreigners who entered the country under short term visa on arrival failed to go back to their home country after the expiry of their permit and instead worked in Malaysia illegally.

Syed Hamid said although foreign workers had contributed tremendously to the economy, they were also the cause of social ills, illegal squatters and diseases such as tuberculosis, the paper reported.

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Malaysia was trying to be nice by ken on 09 Jul 2009

Malaysia tried to make it easy for sincere tourists, but Indians will exploit every loophole possible to their advantage. If you want to travel easily as an Indian, you need to bring integrity and honesty to your country. If statistically Indians overstay their tourist visas more than other nationalities, then the countries have no choice but to stop welcoming you.Prathap, the Malaysians are not anti-Tami or anti-India. Malaysians are anti-criminal behavior, and your people are breaking their laws. Your mindset creates your action. Your actions create how the world responds to you. You break laws, and countries will look to prevent you from continuing with such behaviors.Wake up! And stop blaming others- the fault is deep inside your Indian psyche.

Boycott Malaysia by Prathap Chithapuram on 26 Apr 2009

Terrorists from Pakistan can enter Malaysia but peaceful Indian cannot get a visa on arrival. This clearly demonstrates racist policies of Malaysia against India and Tamils in particular. All these so called Dravidian leaders in Tamil Nadu keep complaining about Sri Lankan army action against a well armed terrorist organisation like LTTE. What are they doing about the mistreatment being meted blatantly against India in Malaysia. I would like Indian leader and Tamil Nadu leaders to raise hell on this treatment meted out by Malaysia. If I were the PM, I would cut ties with Malaysia at all levels. Malay majority Muslims have never treated the Indian origin people well and have always been treated to the lowest level possible.

regarding social pass or visa by vivek on 08 Jul 2008

Hello sir!i hv to come malasiya with my family for 4days.what is the procedure for on arrival.should i tak visa from india..i,m nt getting relevant information on net.cz i can book ticket as well as hotel on net bt what about visa.pls help me out.

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