PM calls for crackdown on foreigners misusing visit passes for work


PUTRAJAYA: More than 54,000 foreign visitors have faced action for misusing social visit passes to work in Malaysia, prompting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to call for firm enforcement measures.

Government spokesperson Datuk Fahmi Fadzil said the matter was raised during the Cabinet meeting on Friday (Jan 30), where ministers were briefed on enforcement operations targeting foreigners who entered on social visit passes but were found to be working.

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