In September last year, it was reported that LHDN imposed a travel ban on 209,000 taxpayers after they failed to pay their taxes while PTPTN blacklisted nearly 3,000 borrowers for failing to repay their education loans. (Facebook pic)

PETALING JAYA: The immigration department will soon have access to real-time data from other agencies like the Interpol, police, prisons department, and Inland Revenue Board (LHDN) to screen travellers arriving and exiting the country.

Home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said the data would be made available under the National Integrated Immigration System (NIISe), which the immigration department is progressively transitioning to from the current MyIMMs system.