1.   Permits are required to obtain work, but many come on social visit passes or enter the country illegally.

2.   He said both had entered Malaysia with social visit passes.

3.   He said to attract more tourists the Immigration Department should hasten the processing of social visit passes.

4.   Eighty-one of them were illegal immigrants while nine were referred to the labour ministry for overstaying and violating their social visit passes, Channel Five station said.

5.   Malaysian immigration officials are to target foreign professionals who work illegally while on social visit passes, a report said Tuesday.

6.   Malaysia may ban the entry of foreigners and blacklist those who frequently travel to neighbouring countries to renew their social visit passes, a report said Thursday.

7.   Police said the men, who fly into the city-state on social visit passes, hired cars and used street directories to find their way around.

8.   Sanusi told AFP it was not unusual for the foreigners to attend the conference using social visit passes since the meeting was not for business purposes.

9.   The government had in February warned it may ban the entry of foreigners and blacklist those who frequently travel to neigbouring countries to renew their social visit passes.