"Malaysians just seem to be unable to fill the forms correctly. For the country to qualify for the programme, there must be no more than 3% rejection of applications for visa," Zulhasnan said.



"But the failure rate is still hovering between 3.4% to 3.7% and majority of the rejection is because the forms were not filled up correctly," he was quoted as saying by Malay Mail Online.



He also explained that the rejection rate is beyond the embassy in Kuala Lumpur's control, since such applications are done on an individual basis.



Meanwhile, The Malaysian Insight reported that US ambassador Kamala Shirin Lakhdir has also confirmed the matter, saying that Malaysia had a 96.7% approval rate for the US business (B1) and tourist (B2) visas.