Sabah recently launched the much-anticipated Sabah Malaysia My Second Home (“
Sabah-MM2H Programme”) on 30 June 2024 and started accepting applications on 1 July 2024. The Sabah-MM2H Programme is only applicable in Sabah and pass holders are not allowed to work in Malaysia. The duration of the Sabah-MM2H Programme pass is for 10 years, with the visa to be issued for an initial 5-year period, at the end of which, security and minimum stay checks will be performed before the visa for the remaining five years can be issued.
According to the Application Guide of Sabah-MM2H
1, the requirements for the application are as follows:
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Despite only receiving the official green light from the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture on 19 July 2024
2, the Sabah Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Datuk Christina Liew said that the reception to the Sabah-MM2H Programme has been ‘
tremendous’ since Sabah started accepting applications on 1 July 2024
3. It will be interesting to see whether the ‘
less rigid’ requirements, as claimed by Datuk Christina Liew, will attract more participants for the Sabah-MM2H Programme
4.
With the launch of the Sabah-MM2H Programme, there are now three separate MM2H programmes (Sabah, Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia) running concurrently. Our earlier articles on the MM2H and Sarawak-MM2H programme can be read at
MM2H 3.0 – Here to Stay! and
Sarawak’s Malaysia My Second Home Programme respectively.
Alert prepared by Foo Siew Li (Partner) and Ng You Xian (Associate) of the Immigration Practice of Skrine.