What your household typically prepares
Most of what lands on your side of the table is proof of who you are and that the household can support the arrangement: copies of your IC or passport (and your spouse's, where relevant), and documentation of income. If the application asks about marital status, a marriage certificate usually needs to accompany it.
None of this is complicated paperwork to gather, but it needs to match what the application form actually asks for at the time you apply, since forms and supporting-document requirements do get revised.
- You and your spouse's IC or passport copies
- Proof of income
- Marriage certificate, where the application requires spousal details
What runs through the worker's side instead
Her passport, the medical screening result, and the exit documentation required by her own country's authorities move through the source-country process, the stage the application-stages guide describes as running in parallel with the approval stage on your end. This is not paperwork your household collects or submits.
Where an agency is involved, it typically coordinates this side and tells you what, if anything, it needs from you to support it. A direct-hire household will still find this side of the process runs through the source country's own system rather than through anything you can supply from home.
Confirm the list before you start collecting
Sabah runs hiring through its own eNORES licensing system and Sarawak through its own HAVEN process, each with a separately published document list on its own portal (genesis.sarawak.gov.my for Sarawak). Don't assume a Peninsular checklist applies in either state; check the dedicated state guide instead.
Because the exact list, and any acceptable substitute document, can be updated by Immigration or by the relevant state authority, treat this page as an orientation to the two sides of the paperwork rather than a final checklist. Confirm the current requirements with Immigration or a licensed agency before you gather documents.