9 Things You Must Do Before Sending Your Maid Home

Sending your maid home isn't as simple and buying her a ticket and getting her on a flight home. Getting it wrong may result in a missed flight and can cause anxiety, incur rebooking fees, and inconvenience everyone. On top of complying with airlines check-in and pre-flight requirements, there are proper employment processes to be completed based on Singapore's work permit conditions and regulation. Over here, we have listed out 9 things you must ensure before sending your maid back to her hometown.

1. Ensure that your Maid has mutually agreed with you to terminate the employment and knows that she is being sent home.
   

2. Ensure that your Maid has a valid passport of minimum 6 months validity from her repatriation (flight) date.
   

3. Check with your Maid which is the international airport in her home country she needs to be repatriated to.
   

4. Buy your Domestic Helper a direct air ticket with sufficient luggage weight. This has to be nearest to your helper’s hometown.
   

5. Your Maid's departure date must be within 2 weeks after cancelling her work permit.
   

6. After purchasing the ticket, check the airlines’ full requirements for departure. For example, some airlines currently require helpers to take a pre-flight Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test due to the current Covid-19 situation and produce the medical result before flight. Send your helper for a PCR test if required by the airlines.
   

7. Ensure all outstanding issues are resolved (e.g. any private agreements or salary payment). It is a good practice to sign an acknowledgement on this to avoid any disputes that may arise in the future.

8. You must print out a physical copy of her special pass (S-pass) after cancelling your helper’s work permit. The pass allows your helper to stay in Singapore till her final departure date.
   

9. On the day of repatriation, ensure that her luggage has been packed and all documents for repatriation duly printed. Our maid transport service will assist for pick-up and the necessary.

There is a convenient way to complete the above through a Maid Runner Service. You can click here to find out more.