WASHINGTON, Sept 11— The inability to fill up visa application forms properly is the main reason why Malaysia has yet to qualify for the United States’ visa waiver programme.

"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 per cent rejection of applications for visa.

"But the failure rate is still hovering between 3.4 per cent to 3.7 per cent and majority of the rejection is because the forms were not filled up correctly,” Malaysian Ambassador to the US Tan Sri Zulhasnan Rafique has said.

Zulhasnan said Malaysia has met all other conditions to be part of the programme "long ago” with exception to the rejection rate.

To date, Malaysia has fulfilled six out of the seven statutory requirements: