News about visa

“To ensure MM2H is attractive and competitive, the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (Motac) together with the home ministry continues to review the existing requirements of the programme.

The year is almost out as 2023 gets ready to take its place.

“The new programme looks just like a copy-paste of MM2H and I do not see how it can be attractive for ‘investors’.

SHAH ALAM (May 25): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was implicated in Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s (pictured) trial in connection with the Foreign Visa System (VLN) today after a witness claimed that the former had facilitated the hiring of a contractor as the single operator in the implementation and deployment of Malaysia's visa application management system.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30): Malaysia is already “working on” a vaccine visa that will allow vaccinated people to skip the mandatory quarantine when crossing borders, The Edge reported in its latest issue.

PETALING JAYA (July 1): The Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) centre in the tourism ministry has been closed “until further notice”, according to a report by FMT.

Christine Pun, together with her husband and daughter, has been looking to move to Malaysia via the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) since the middle of 2019 not long after the 2019/2020 Hong Kong protests against plans to allow extradition to mainland China, started in June last year.

Ever since China approved the controversial national security laws for Hong Kong end of May this year, there has been another surge of enquiries for the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) Programme, according to MM2H agency Starcity Global managing director Florence Ten.

PUTRAJAYA (June 23): The Court of Appeal has dismissed former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's application to consolidate his 12 criminal breach of trust (CBT) charges to just three charges in his trial for misappropriation of funds belonging to Yayasan Akalbudi.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 18): A contractor testifying in the Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi graft trial told the High Court here that the former deputy prime minister paid more than RM1.