Foreign spouses should be allowed to work

THIS Labour Day, Family Frontiers, the umbrella body of the Foreign Spouses Support Group (FSSG), would like to shed light on the predicaments of Malaysian binational families as a result of employment restrictions placed on non-citizen spouses of Malaysians.

Potential employers are reluctant to hire non-citizen spouses upon seeing the words “Prohibited from all forms of employment” stamped on their long-term social visit pass (LTSVP), also referred to as spouse visa. This is despite the Immigration Department stating that an endorsement to work can be obtained after securing an offer from an employer.