PUTRAJAYA: Foreigners without a valid travel pass or who have overstayed will only be fined RM500 if they want to return home under a new Migrant Repatriation Programme which will start on March 1, says the Immigration Department.

Those who violated their travel passes or permits will only be charged RM300 to return to their country of origin, said department director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh (pic).

“No one under the programme will be prosecuted,” he added.

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“All they need to do is surrender themselves so that they can be processed and sent home rather than stay in Malaysia illegally.”

The programme will run until Dec 31.

“For this programme, the department is not appointing any agent to manage the repatriation process. The foreigners can just do this themselves,” he told The Star.