The visa for the student’s wife and the children , is called Dependent visa, companion visa and spouse visa. Students can only apply for this visa for their dependants if they are studying on a course/programme that is more than twelve (12) months long following educational levels in Malaysia:

1. Master’s degree in Malaysia
2. PhD in Malaysia
3. Postdoc in Malaysia

Important Note: Dependent visa in Malaysia is not given to the family of the students studying in the educationallevels of pre- university, associate degree, bachelor’s degree and English language courses in English language colleges in Malaysia. Spouse visa in Malaysia is dedicated to those who want to continue their study in Malaysia and during the course of study, their wife, children or parents live with them in Malaysia.

Dependent Visa Application Procedure

1st step: Receiving admission (offer letter) for students in a educational level of Master degree or PhD or postdoctoral.

2nd step: Receiving a student visa for students.

3rd step: Traveling to Malaysia with family.

4th step: Delivery of student passport to the university to insert visa sticker on the passport. When you travel to Malaysia with your family, you should first give student passport to the university and then your passport is sent to the Immigration Department of Malaysia and student visa sticker will be inserted on the student passport.

5th step: Applying for a visa for the wife and children When you receive your passport, you can apply for a visa for your wife and children. To do so, you should give required documents for family visa in Malaysia to Visa Department in the university, they do all work required to get a visa for your family, and after two months the visa of student’s family in Malaysia will be received from the Immigration Department.

Documents required for receiving family visa in Malaysia

1. Copy of all pages of the student’s passport
2. Original and copy of all passport pages of dependents (wife and children). The period of validity of student and family’ passports for delivery to the university and receiving family visa should be at least a year and a half.
3. Family Letter: You can receive this letter from your country’s embassy in Malaysia; for example, if you’re a native of Saudi Arabia, you should refer to the Saudi embassy in Malaysia and request a Family Letter. On Family Letter, the profiles of you, your wife and children are written.
4. Photos with white background
5. Student admission letter (Offer Letter)
6. Bank statement from student to show you are eligible to support your family in Malaysia
7. Medical insurance for each family member

The dependant pass application should be made through your education institution. The student pass application
will be made through EMGS and the dependant pass process can only commence once the Principal’s student pass has been issued. You need to submit a separate application for each dependant.

The processing fee for a dependant pass application is RM250. The dependant pass fee is RM90 and the Multiple Entry Visa fee varies depending on the nationality of the applicant. A Journey Performed Fee of RM500 is also applicable.

After you submit the documents to the university, two months later the dependent visa is issued and expiry date is the same as of student visa expiry date in Malaysia. In order to extend it, when the student extends his visa, he can submit the visa of the companions to the university to be extended for the next year.