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KUALA LUMPUR - FOREIGN sex workers in Malaysia are paying local men up to RM5,000 (S$2,100) a month to become their husbands so that they can stay on in the country to ply their trade, a local newspaper reported yesterday.
Under immigration laws, foreign spouses of Malaysians are initially given three-month visas before eventually obtaining year-long permits, which are renewed automatically.
Immigration Department director-general Abdul Rahman Othman told the New Straits Times that the prostitutes had taken on husbands to become eligible for long-term visas.
And although prostitution is illegal in Malaysia, the women cannot be prosecuted under immigration laws because their marriages are legal, Datuk Abdul Rahman said. They can, however, be prosecuted under vice laws.
He said foreign sex workers could make up to RM20,000 a month and that RM5,000 a month for 'marriages of convenience' was nothing compared to what they would lose if they had to leave the country to renew their visas.
It is not an exaggeration to assume that for every 25 marriages involving a foreign woman, only one is genuine, according to the director-general.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking...ry_505889.html
Under immigration laws, foreign spouses of Malaysians are initially given three-month visas before eventually obtaining year-long permits, which are renewed automatically.
Immigration Department director-general Abdul Rahman Othman told the New Straits Times that the prostitutes had taken on husbands to become eligible for long-term visas.
And although prostitution is illegal in Malaysia, the women cannot be prosecuted under immigration laws because their marriages are legal, Datuk Abdul Rahman said. They can, however, be prosecuted under vice laws.
He said foreign sex workers could make up to RM20,000 a month and that RM5,000 a month for 'marriages of convenience' was nothing compared to what they would lose if they had to leave the country to renew their visas.
It is not an exaggeration to assume that for every 25 marriages involving a foreign woman, only one is genuine, according to the director-general.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking...ry_505889.html
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