How long it takes to get employment pass in Malaysia, for an expat?

In this season of pendemic covid19 it is difficult to determine the period required to get approval. In addition, the government has now announced an MCO for the whole country. I think its better if you ask the management who offers jobs to you to manages it.

Thank you for your kind reply @ SAIFUL09

Generally it takes 1.5 month for all the processing and stamping of single entry. VDR letter you will get first. which will take around 1 month.

Thank you for your kind reply @ rcrahul007

Hi I'm Sorn. I'm from Thailand and currently live and work in Malaysia. My situation is my new company submitted me EP (category II)​ since 8th of January 2021. After that MDEC revert back and asked me to amend release letter to the date which is my current EP expiry date on 14th January 2021. The new company re submitted the letter to MDEC on 18th January 2012.

Currently my work permit with old company already expired asince 15th January 2021, and until now (22 Feb) l, MDEC still holds me on Decision stage. It's already taken 5 weeks after re submitted documents. In addition, I never receive any acknowledged letter from MDEC.

So, I would like to ask you guys regarding my situation that actually about 1 week after EP online submission, MDEC will provide Acknowledge letter, but for my case I never received any letter. Do you have any idea about this? or this is because my current EP was naturally expired so,  it skip the step to issue acknowledge letter? and what's the next step after decision stage. Thanks in advance.

Strange that u hvnt recived the ack till now. MDEC is very professional and they do honor the SLA. Are u sure its MDEc or it is ESD? ESD is slow for that matter. IMDEc gives u a decision in max 10 days after all the docs hv been submitted. U get the approval after decision stage and u always get ack letter.

Check with ur employer whether they r giving u all the right info. I doubut they r hiding something, which is not uncommon here.

Thanks gaurav.a.sriva for replying. I also doubt with this situation during my friends already got the acknowledged letter.

I have sent email to employer today asked about any letter that I should receive and it's still pending reply

I also attached the photo which show my status is on decision stage since 4th of February 2021. Hope I will get approval by this month.

Cant see ur attachment but all the best. Hope and pray u get the approval soon.

Thanks gaurav.a.sriva.   Please find the image here https://pasteboard.co/JPG3R2c.jpg