Marriage with Malaysian

https://theweddingnotebook.com/inspire/ … tep-guide/

also take wedding pictures to show immigration

Photos are very important, in fact critical in cases of elopement. Save them in the phone forever and even if you change phones, put them right back in the new one.

You didnt say but are you planning to marry with her family in Malaysia?

Apart from the link provided above, I have written much on this topic and gave step by step details for people so the information is here in the forum when a person searches.

If your wife plans to sponsor you for the LTSVP, I wrote about immigration too. There is cost, a bond, time and lots of paperwork.

Just do note a simple issue here. You can't work in Malaysia after marriage, you need to meet work permit requirements (but stamped permission on ltsvp). Indonesia she can't work without  a work permit  both Indonesia and Malaysia tru to avoid "marriages of convenience" by stopping work. So financially might be an issue if you are young.

I think people assume marriage means easy employment. At the appropriate time in my LTSVP process, I asked for a job endorsement and they ignored the request. They didnt  say NO or WHY, just ignore and byebye. End of the day, they want people to drop lots of money in the country, not pick up any and thats it.

If I had an actual job I might have forced the issue but generally I would say marrying to get a job shouldnt be the goal. Figure out money and jobs otherwise to keep the path more pure for Immigration Department decisions.

What about running your own business once married, is that easier than getting a job, if your prepared to invest

RichPop,

Thats the same thing since you need a workpass to work in your own company and guess what, you are very unlikely to get such a thing since that job is expected to go to a local.

BUT...if you are Toyota or Intel or Starbucks, thats a different story.

Many expats ran businesses from their houses with everything quiet and not talking about it publicly. The malaysian spouse, with no restrictions, set up the company at low cost and that was it. And the only reason to set up a company at all in that circumstance is that some banks, seeing the ins and outs of money, expect a company to be associated with that activity. So the spouse will always be the owner and front person, with the other one doing the work. I want to stress its not legal to work without a pass, married or not, so Im not here to recommend such practices but thats how it has worked.

@cvco works until wife throws you out keeping all your assets! Know a few that this happened too.

@Nemodot Never easy is it , but lets hope it does not come to that

@cvco The Malaysian Government do not seem to make it easy for one to invest in the country

Richpop, its easy to invest provided you send the money to the country and dont follow it.