{"id":5713,"date":"2025-07-17T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.acccim.org.my\/what-we-do\/application-of-apec-business-travel-card-abtc\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:04:21","slug":"application-of-apec-business-travel-card-abtc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/acccim.org.my\/en\/services\/application-of-apec-business-travel-card-abtc\/","title":{"rendered":"Application of APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Application of APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Roles and Functions of ACCCIM in Issuing Supporting Letter for ABTC<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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  1. To screen through to ensure that application made are genuine via verification of:
    (i) applicant\u2019s organisation is a member of associations\/chambers;
    (ii) applicant\u2019s position is significantly senior (as per eligible applicants \u2013 Annex IA<\/a> );
    (iii) applicant\u2019s supporting documents are valid and verified (as per checklist in     Annex IB<\/a>).<\/li>
  2. Applicant need to prepare the following letters:-
    (i) Letter to ACCCIM (Sample letter –     Malay version<\/a> \/ English version<\/a>)
    (ii) Letter to Immigration Malaysia (sample letter 1 \/ sample letter 2)<\/li>
  3. Applicant to submit the letters together with supporting documents to respective constituent chambers. Then the constituent chamber to submit it to ACCCIM. (Sample letter of Constituent Chamber to ACCCIM<\/a>)<\/li>
  4. Please refer to the following chart (Annex II<\/a>) for Process Flow.<\/li>
  5. ACCCIM will then submit the applications to the ABTC Unit of Immigration Department. (as per checklist in Annex IC<\/a>)<\/li>
  6. The agreed fee of RM35.00 per application<\/strong> will be collected by ACCCIM to carry out the following processes:
    (a) Issue of Supporting Letter;
    (b) Gather the application documents and submit to Immigration Department at Putrajaya, get the reference number issued by immigration and e-mail to constituent chambers\/applicants;
    (c) Send respective reminders to constituent chambers\/applicants to check ABTC status after 3 months from date of submission to immigration;<\/li>
  7. The ABTC application process by Immigration Malaysia is as per Annex III<\/a>.<\/li>
  8. For more information about ABTC, please visit the Immigration Department\u2019s official website<\/a>.<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Application of APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC) Roles and Functions of ACCCIM in Issuing Supporting Letter for ABTC To screen through to ensure that application made are genuine via verification of:(i) applicant\u2019s organisation is a member of associations\/chambers; (ii) applicant\u2019s position is significantly senior (as per eligible applicants \u2013 Annex IA ); (iii) applicant\u2019s supporting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5618,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5713","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acccim.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acccim.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acccim.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acccim.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acccim.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acccim.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5787,"href":"https:\/\/acccim.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5713\/revisions\/5787"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acccim.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acccim.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}