Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
Originally Posted by RedApe
(Post 12702937)
My advice on the passport thing is to submit renewal a year early to the embassy of whatever commonweal you applied from. British Embassy in KL can send your new one by post
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Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
Originally Posted by eCdD
(Post 12657322)
That sounds too good to be true. And so far it is not true.
Actually there was an eVisa facility for Chinese , Indian and some other nationalities. It was contracted out to a company called Ultra Kirana SHD to operate. Everything fell apart when a local newspaper submitted an application with an image of a monkey, and another with the face and name of a known criminal. Both were accepted in the system and granted visas. https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/leade...s-are-not-sale This today...so it's a current event. Turns out Ass't Minister Zahid, head of UMNO, may have been taking a kickback on every visa issued. (RM12.91 million) https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/zahi...l?guccounter=1 |
Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
Originally Posted by RedApe
(Post 12702937)
they actually grant you ten years "eligibility" but the visa itself only runs until the eligibility of the passport.
It is inconvenient for us is that our passports are issued only for 5 years.
Originally Posted by RedApe
(Post 12702937)
My understanding is the MM2H visa stamp can only continue until the "Must have 6 months available on the Passport" Rule. Since they don't have "part years" the visa will end whenever the annual fee covers. Four years. We've got 4-year stamp because they don't have "part years"! So inconvenient for us...
Originally Posted by RedApe
(Post 12702937)
My advice on the passport thing is to submit renewal a year early to the embassy of whatever commonweal you applied from.
Thank you for the links regarding issuing visas. It looks like more and more corruption cases are being exposed recently. Good, it shows that they are fighting corruption. |
Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
As far as I know there is always going to be mismatch between the passport and the MM2H pass...simply because you will never have perfect congruence with the 10 (or five) year cycle of the Passport and the fact that the 6 month rule results in the pass/visa expiring six months before the passport - requiring reapplication for a new visa/pass. So really the visa is for four, or nine years. Plus you lose a year on your passport (technically...since many places won't allow you in if you have 6 months or less anyways).
What the home country should do is issue an 11-or-6 year passport ;-) |
Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
According to a newspaper report published a few days ago, the Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry secretary-general, Datuk Isham Ishak, said that the ministry plans to introduce an automated system to facilitate and speed up applications for the MM2H programme. He described it as one of the most advanced of its kind in the world.
Can you guess what type of "automated system" it may look like? |
Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
Originally Posted by obaydullah
(Post 12729940)
According to a newspaper report published a few days ago, the Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry secretary-general, Datuk Isham Ishak, said that the ministry plans to introduce an automated system to facilitate and speed up applications for the MM2H programme. He described it as one of the most advanced of its kind in the world.
Can you guess what type of "automated system" it may look like? |
Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
Are applications now open? My son who was provisionally approved before COVID the agent in Sabah says applications are still not open. Is he right or are we being fobbed off?
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Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
Originally Posted by Hovite
(Post 13129517)
Are applications now open? My son who was provisionally approved before COVID the agent in Sabah says applications are still not open. Is he right or are we being fobbed off?
My understanding is that the Federal MM2H provisional approval has an expiry date. I don't think that a provisional approval from several years ago is still valid. |
Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
MM2H Sabah. Provisional approval was granted in January 2020 before the pandemic hit. The agent says it is still valid but MM2H Sabah is not open yet. Just checking if anyone else has any recent experience of MM2H Sabah.
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Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
Because the Sabah MM2H was linked with the MM2H program. When the MM2H program was changed the conditions would have been changed in Sabah as well. So the agents and property people somewhat panicked. There was the beginning of talk to make Sabah truly independent using their MA63 rights. So there has been a period where they were not accepting new applications. Apparently Sabah will come out with their new program soon, probably more or less like Sarawaks.
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malay...tional/2058347 Whether they'll let your son's application just get cleared under the original terms, or will be resubmitted under the new rules (which might be more favourable) I don't know. He should reconnect with his agent. |
Re: Retiring in Malaysia - Malaysia My Second Home Visa (MM2H)
Make Malaysia more attractive for long-stay foreigners, govt told
PETALING JAYA: The government should boost the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme to make it more attractive to foreigners, say a chamber of commerce and a group representing MM2H consultants.Donal Crotty, chairman of the Irish Chamber of Commerce Malaysia, said a review of the conditions would make foreigners consider Malaysia as a place to live and retire. “At least return the programme and its requirements to where it was four years ago. This will help stimulate growth and take up some of the excess housing stock,” he told FMT. |
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