29,276 apply under migrant registration framework

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty says the Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work is be­ing im­ple­ment­ed in three phas­es as part of a process to reg­is­ter mi­grants.

Phase one be­gan on Jan­u­ary 26, 2026, and end­ed on Feb­ru­ary 25, 2026. This phase in­volved an on­line ap­pli­ca­tion process dur­ing which ap­pli­ca­tions were sub­mit­ted, re­viewed and ap­point­ments as­signed.

The min­istry said book­ing and con­fir­ma­tion of ap­point­ments re­main on­go­ing.

At the end of the on­line reg­is­tra­tion pe­ri­od, the min­istry re­ceived 29,276 ap­pli­ca­tions rep­re­sent­ing more than 60 na­tion­al­i­ties.

Phase two is now un­der­way.

The min­istry said 2,707 ap­pli­ca­tions have been processed so far.

Ap­pli­cants have been ad­vised to print all re­quired doc­u­ments be­fore at­tend­ing their ap­point­ments. The min­istry said de­tails of re­quired doc­u­ments are out­lined in the ap­point­ment con­fir­ma­tion email.

Ap­pli­cants al­so are as­signed to spe­cif­ic reg­is­tra­tion sites. The min­istry said re­quests to change as­signed sites can­not be eas­i­ly ac­com­mo­dat­ed be­cause of op­er­a­tional arrange­ments.

Ap­pli­cants al­so have been ad­vised to ar­rive on time for their ap­point­ments. Of­fi­cers at each site will al­ready have the de­tails re­lat­ed to each ap­pli­ca­tion.

The min­istry said ap­pli­cants who miss sched­uled in­ter­views will be resched­uled based on avail­abil­i­ty. How­ev­er, it warned that space is lim­it­ed and miss­ing an ap­point­ment may lead to de­lays.

So far, 13,502 ap­point­ments have been sched­uled based on the avail­abil­i­ty of venues. The re­main­ing in­ter­views are ex­pect­ed to be sched­uled dur­ing April and May.

The min­istry said the process in­cludes se­cu­ri­ty and health screen­ings.

Af­ter phase two, phase three will in­volve pay­ment and is­suance of the Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work Card once ap­proval is grant­ed.