Study Guide for Malaysian Student

Step 1: Selection of Institution

Please take note that there are 785 institutions registered with Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia. It is very important for every student to choose his/her institution carefully. Essentially an institution must have a valid-approval from Ministry of Education to offer its programmes, than every institution should apply for MQA (Malaysian Qualification Agency) approval/accreditation for its programmes, it is important for student to know and understand that the accredited programmes have far much better market value as compared to approved programmes.

When choosing your institution legality of an institution is only the partial consideration, there are other things that student must check e.g. the location of the institution, the programme tuition fee (sometimes institutions don’t share the hidden cost during their orientation but later students are required to pay those fees so please check with your counselor on the hidden cost.

Step 2: Documentation for Visa Application

Student need to prepare the following documents for their visa application:

6 passport size photographs
Certified true copies of all their academic credentials (degrees and transcripts)
Photocopies of all the pages of their passport
Medical Report (the format of the form is given by institution) Immigration of Malaysia has given every institution their medical form with their logo on top. Please get this medical done at any government hospital
Application form of an institution
Application Fee for visa application payable to institution

Step 3: Document Submission

You can either send the hard copies via courier company to your institution or scan and email the soft copies to your institution, but you need to check with the institution first, if they allow you to do that or not.

Step 4: Application for Visa

This step is done by institution’s designated representative. In order to obtain visa approval from the immigration the representative will carry out the following procedures:

1. upon receiving the documents from the student, the representative will prepare the document check list to ensure that all the required documents are in order and in accordance with immigration requirement
2. representative will than present these documents to the head of the department to check on the academic qualification of the student to check his/her eligibility to enroll in the programme
3. once the principal approve the application, the representative will send the documents for security bond preparation. This process takes between 1 to 2 days.
4. Once the security bond is ready the representative will scan all the student particulars and submit these documents online in immigration portal and the following day he/she will send the hard copies to immigration office

Step 5: Visa Approval

Usually it takes about 4 to 6 weeks to obtain visa approval from the Malaysian immigration, once the approval is out on the online portal, the representative will collect the approval letter from the immigration office and send it to respective student.

Step 6: Entry Visa from Pakistan

Once the approval is out the immigration will issue the approval letter to the institution’s representative. The representative will mail the approval letter to student and the student need to take this letter to either Malaysian High Commission or to Malaysian Consulate.

Step 7: Arrival in Malaysia

Once the entry visa is stamped on the passport, the student will make arrangement to arrive in Malaysia. As a student we advise you to inform your institution about your flight details at least one week in advance. On the airport the institution representative will present at the immigration counter to verify your documents.

Step 8: Visa Sticker

The last part of visa section is the visa sticker, once you arrive in Malaysia the institution’s representative will collect your passport for visa sticker and he/she will give you one acknowledgement letter. Your passport will be with them for at least 1 month.

I hop that the above Guide will be helpful for Pakistani Student who wish to study in Malaysia

By:
Dr. Hassan Zaidi and I am the Director of Business Development at Paramount College of Technology, Malaysia
Contact: hassan@paramount.edu