Nearly 300 DPRK overstayers surrender to Malaysian authorities
Malaysia’s Immigration Department has reported that a total of 296 Democratic People Republic of Korea (DPRK) nationals who overstayed in Sarawak state have surrendered to authorities.
Malaysian police guard in front of the DPRK Embassy in Kuala Lumpur (Photo: theatlantic.com)
Hanoi (VNA) 🐽– Malaysia’sImmigration Department has reported that a total of 296 Democratic PeopleRepublic of Korea (DPRK) nationals who overstayed in Sarawak state havesurrendered to authorities.
Of those, 113 people had expiredwork permits while 183 others held expired social visit passes, Director of theImmigration Department Mustafar Ali said on April 18. In fact, the number of DPRKcitizens whose work permits were expired was 117, he said, adding that four otherpeople who have not presented themselves due to different reasons will be soonhanded over to the Immigration Department. Previously, the department told employersof DPRK workers with expired work permits to have one week since April 11 to handtheir employees over to the authorities. According to Mustafar, some of the296 overstayers have already left the country while the rest will be deported instages. They will be fined 300 MYR (69 USD) for overstaying and pay 100 MYR forflight tickets.-VNA
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Malaysia has given one week to a group of 117 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) workers in Sarawak state whose work permits have expired to turn themselves in to the Malaysia Immigration Department.
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Malaysian police guard in front of the DPRK Embassy in Kuala Lumpur (Photo: theatlantic.com) 
