How to renew Kakak
Time flies and it is now time to renew our “tai fan shu” Kakak again.
I am glad that she is willing to stay for another year without going back for holiday (ok, I do tempt her with some bonus in exchange for this to keep her happy although she did not ask for anything) . I am also glad that she is the ambitious type so she plans to work for many years before “retiring”. Of course I also put a lot of effort to do brainwashing, encouragement and “dream building” with her from time to time!
Our Kakak when she arrives
I still remember our horrible experiences when we first have this live-in helper that comes from another part of the world, how she steals the forbidden home food (I thinks she still does that sometimes due to curiosity), how hubby found her sleeping on our sofa in the morning instead of cleaning the house (welln she still sleeps in her work occasionally), how she vomited inside hubby’s new MPV (thank God she grew out of motion sickness) and bla..bla..bla..
Overall, I must say that she improves a tremendously and I can be simply contented by just closing one eye. At least now she knows what she should be doing and I no longer need to give her instructions on her routine job.( I am ok although moping is not done daily, fans and lights only wipe once a year and curtains change twice a year as long as she keeps the boys away from me when I need to work). I treasure this extra pair of hands to manage some simple daily chores and I hope to keep her as long as I can (I don’t expect to see more from her and to me, it will be just good enough as long as she maintains her performance as of today)
When to renew her passport (expiring in April 2011) ?
Although her passport is expiring in April 2011, I was told by my agent that I should renew her passport now. There must be a year of lead time before her passport expire when we renew her visa/permit, I was told. To renew her work permit, Fomema, and such, my agent told me that will cost about Rm7xx, including Rm100 charged by agent to do the work (but some said it is Rm1250 now including the fee for the extra course attended that we have to attend with the helper?)
Now the problem lies in renewing her passport.I was advised by many to bring her to the Indonesia Embassy to renew the passport. But when I google and saw this from Leena’s blog, *wa-lau-eh*, it really freaks me out man! My agent also told me that now they are made to sign an acknowledge letter of their minimum salary of Rm600 (which is a big jump from her current salary!).
Not only that, I was just told by a friend that our maid will be interviewed at the embassy during renewal (to check their condition with employee kua..) and also we need to attend a half day course with the maid (thanks to our si-beh smart punya minister punya idea!).
After some consideration (of having my fussy hubby taking her to queue and becoming sardine one whole day under those zinc roof, leaving me behind with 3 monsters at home), I think I better let the agent handle this. Fee charged is Rm480 (pretty expensive eh?)
So, by not having to sign any letter now, or does that still mean that we have to bring her to the course and adjust her salary? sigh…I just promised her some bonus prior this and now a big jump in salary?
Anyone just renew their Kakak’s passport can share? *scratch head* sigh…Si-beh confuse now!
wow…hmmm…i renewed my maid’s pasport sometime ago, but that time don’t have all these regulations.
Renew PAssport is a must. And it will renew for 3 yrs I think, so in case she wanna work another year on top of the coming one still possible.
All I need to do is bring the maid 1 day earlier to the agency cause they 4am go line up at embassy and go get passport. But I refused cause sked kena brainwash by all the rest of the maid, so I pagi buta 5am drove to indon embassy and left her there for few hours. Agency send her back.
As for permit, you can diy lah..no need ask agent to do cause they charge more. Prepare the bank draft for fomema, then decide first what clinic for checkup and the code. Then go Fomema, get the form and tell them which clinic u want to go and bring her for med checkup. Then do the checkup at clinic, wait for 1 week to get the result. After that just go to immigration kow tim.
But I’m not sure this changed or not due to recent changes. I did that last year for my cambo maid, to safe 300RM
I didn’t pay the agent so what I did was drop her off at the Embassy and then pick her later in the evening. But now I heard from my brother that the employer needs to be there? I say just pay the money to the agent to do it for you lah. I’ve been to the Embassy for work visa and I saw the queue for the workers visa - freaky man!! You mean you’re not paying your maid about RM550? That is what my new maid is getting. My older maid got a “promotion” so she is paid RM600. Walau…..my maids damn lucky man…..
you know, initially i thought my maid was the worst for doing things like forgetful, impolite, waking up late for work, falling asleep and so on but at least, she never steal.
For the renewal, I used to do it myself for her 2nd year permit renewal. It’s pretty fast… but not sure for passport renewal process.
hi Chin Nee, 3 years ago I renewed my maid passport at only RM22 (for 3 years), but of course no interview needed at that time. I read from a blog, he renewed it at RM18 last year.
I did it myself coz my agent wanted to charge me RM300.
I was lucky, I only spent less than half an hour when I submitted her application and about an hour when I went to get the passport 2 weeks+ later.
You have to renew the passport as soon as possible if u need to renew her permit soon, it takes time.