Crap before Maid Arrives

MOM rejected my application for a maid becoz we use Joint-Employment Scheme.

Parties to blame
MOM - Inflexible
Maid Agency - not good enough w MOM Schemes

Some background information:

We wanted to employ a maid from myanmar to help us in day-to-day household chores. As i will be moving out approximately 6 months from now, i think that it will be better if we employ now so i have some time to teach her how to accomodate to our family life-styles as well as making her a part of the family before.

Therefore, after some research, i got into this agency becoz i like the maid 1st impression from the photo. Her CV/Resume/Bio-data seems to be what we are looking for. After 1 hour or less discussion with mum, we are ready to employ her.

The agency gave documents to fill in such that she can apply as a Joint-Employment Scheme for us. Currently, regardless if i'm the employer or my mum is the employer, we are entitled to concession levy due to my dad's age. However, this is no longer application for me if i change the address on my NRIC. Therefore the best opinion is to put my mum's name, but since my mum is not working, there is a need to submit somebody(which is me)'s income tax to proof our ability to employ a maid. So anyway, the in-charge in agency say "Can can, Joint-Employment!" WTH. Her lack of knowledge gives me more problem because MOM rejects my application based on the following rules

For Joint-Employment Scheme, both employers need to be working and the salary as an individual is not enough to qualify to employ a Foreign Domestic Worker

Then the stupid agency person says "But you cannot apply under sponsorship scheme becoz you are staying together!" WTH! Joint-Employment also cannot wat! You dunno say dunno, dun act smart, tell me you dunno and i would have called MOM to check before submitting the application, wasting a good 3-5 working days of waiting.

Anyway, now, the application is with MOM, waiting for approval. In such scenario, just apply under sponsorship scheme and with a signed-letter, explain that the sponsor is moving out of the house soon so would prefer someone(w no income) living in the house to be the employer. It has to be manual submission with the letter, and cannot use online application. For all scenarios that you are unsure, i suggest that leave a msg at the MOM website, and they will get back by latest next working day. Forget about calling them, their hotline sux.

Totally crap ass.

By the way, in case you are wondering why we din apply using Fixed Deposit Statements, coz it is a hassle for my mum to travel down to do the barang barang, so i rather settle for her. =)