US Embassy Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Holiday Closing Schedule 2011

admin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:06:29 +0000

The administration posts the holiday closing schedules of many of the American Missions in Asia in an effort to forestall Americans abroad from traveling to an American Mission that is closed in observance of an American or Foreign holiday. The following is the holiday closing schedule of the United States Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as quoted directly from the Post’s official website:

The U.S. Embassy will observe the following official U.S. and Malaysian holidays.

2011

Official Date	Date Observed	Day	Holiday	Country
January 1 (Saturday)	Dec 31	Friday	New Year’s Day	U.S./Malaysia
3rd Monday in January	Jan 17	Monday	Martin Luther King’s B’day	U.S.
January 20	Jan 20	Thursday	Thaipusam	Malaysia
February 3 & 4	Feb 3 & 4	Thursday & Friday	Chinese New Year	Malaysia
February 15	Feb 15	Tuesday	Prophet Muhammad’s B’day	Malaysia
3rd Monday in February	Feb 21	Monday	Presidents’ Day	U.S.
May 17	May 17	Tuesday	Wesak Day	Malaysia
Last Monday in May	May 30	Monday	Memorial Day	U.S.
July 4	July 4	Monday	Indpendence Day	U.S.
August 30 & 31*	Aug 30 & 31*	Tuesday & Wednesday	Hari Raya Puasa	Malaysia
August 31	Aug 31	Wednesday	National Day	Malaysia
1st Monday in September	Sept 5	Monday	Labor Day	U.S.
September 16	Sept 16	Friday	Malaysia Day	Malaysia
2nd Monday in October	Oct 10	Monday	Columbus Day	U.S.
October 26*	Oct 26*	Wednesday	Deepavali	Malaysia
November 6 (Sunday)	Nov 7	Monday	Hari Raya Qurban	Malaysia
November 11	Nov 11	Friday	Veterans Day	U.S.
4th Thursday in November	Nov 24	Thursday	Thanksgiving Day	U.S.
December 25 (Sunday)	Dec 26	Monday	Christmas Day	U.S./Malaysia

* Subject to change

Each year, many American Citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents seek services from a US Mission abroad. In many cases such services can only be provided by an American Citizen Services Section of a US Embassy or US Consulate abroad. Such services include, but are not limited to: issuance of Consular Reports of Birth Abroad, issuance of US Passports, or additional visa pages for a previously issued American Passport.

Those seeking temporary US visas such as the B-2 visa for tourists, the F-1 visa for foreign students, the B-1 visa for temporary business purposes, or the J-1 visa for cultural exchange visitors are often required to process their application through a Non-Immigrant Visa Unit of a US Mission abroad. Meanwhile, those seeking US family visa benefits for travel documents such as the CR-1 visa or the IR-1 visa generally process such requests through an Immigrant Visa (IV) Unit of a US Mission abroad. Even though the K-1 visa is a non-immigrant US fiance visa it is often treated in much the same way as an immigrant visa for processing purposes.

Those seeking an EB-5 visa or an L-1 visa are often required to process an immigration petition and receive approval of such a petition from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).

Those wishing to visit the official website of the US Embassy in Malaysia please click HERE.

Those seeking related information should see: US Visa Malaysia.

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US Embassy Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Holiday Closing Schedule 2011