Another year, another post — not about golf. I think this blog has run its course in terms of golf. Right now, I am just using it like a journal or diary sort of to ensure the future gilagolf who faces dementia does not have issues renewing the maid. This is the eternal struggle we have against our government.
Last year was smooth so naturally I thought this year would be the same as well.
Fomema – I dont want to post this anymore, because Fomema process is very straightforward already. Website, register, pay, go to clinic, go to x-ray, come back, check website — if suitable then go!
So I headed over to https://imigresen-online.imi.gov.my/plks/welcome which is where I usually go to and unfortunately, it says it has migrated to https://imigresen-online.imi.gov.my/mypass. Now if you know anything about government migrating something– we know this is BIG TROUBLE. Because they can’t even stop people migrating away from their own country. Usually the system is a piece of sh*t that doesn’t work.
So surprise–when I ‘Log Masuk’ I was able to enter the main website , greeted with the informational menu saying
Laman Utama| ESP | ECOM | Status permohonan
ECOM I found is used when your maid wants to leave the country. ESP is probably what used to be PRA, so I clicked on it –
Permohonan eSP – Pembantu Rumah Asing
When I key in my IC, nothing happens. No PRA shows up.
Tried looking and asking the facebook page with no luck until I stumbled upon this term: fwcms
Googling it led me to https://fwcms.com.my/ the Foreign Worker’s Centralized Management System.
Now, why the hell would not the eplks site direct to this instead of having their own portal?
Logging in using my old login (I wonder how they managed to migrate the hashed passwords), I saw the feature :
ePL(KS)
It allows employers to apply work permit renewal for the desired workers whose work permit nearly expired as early as three months
Which is very encouraging as this site looks much newer and more modern. It’s still sucks at navigating though. There’s no HOME button and clicking on the logo at main screen doesn’t do anything, unlike most websites.
So you just login as EMPLOYER and you get dumped into the first screen ePLKS. Click on ePLKS – PLKS Application –> New Application
Putting in my maid’s details, I received a somewhat encouraging error stating: Pass Expiry Date is more than three months to proceed with renewal.
This means it KNOWS that my maids renewal is somewhere mid November. I am doing it now in Early August. I guess I am one month early. So I need to try a month from now and keep my fingers crossed!!