Difficulties in renewing Employment Pass

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Mr.Esham is a Syrian international which currently operates a fish farm trading business and owns several land grants. When applying for a renewal pass this year, he was told by Immigration that he will need get an approval letter from Ministry of Domestic Trade Co-operatives and Consumerism.  

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For your information, there are two stages in the employment of expatriates. Stage 1- application for an expatriate post and Stage 2 - an endorsement of employment pass. In the Stage 1, The Government Of Malaysia has appointed several agencies to evaluate and approve expatriate post and one of the related agency is Expatriate Committee. This Expatriate Commitee (EC) is under supervision of Ministry Of Home Affairs and the Immigration Department acts as a Secretariat to the EC. The EC consists of the following:-

The condition imposed to your approval was decided by the EC and not Immigration Department. From our tele-conversation, you have mentioned that your appeal to Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism (MDTCC) had been rejected twice. In Stage 2, you must fulfilled the condition given to you or we (Immigration Department) cannot process your employment pass for renewal. We would like to suggest to you to go back to MDTCC to appeal for the approval or you may appeal to 

You can forward your 1st appeal application to the address below:-