Malaysia · Passive income
Sarawak Malaysia My Second Home
Reformed with effect from 1 January 2025 and administered separately from federal MM2H by the Sarawak state government. Sources conflict materially on the current fixed deposit — the official InvestSarawak announcement of the 2025 changes states RM 500,000, while older material and some agents still quote RM 150,000 for older applicants. Confidence set to low; verify directly with the Sarawak Ministry of Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts.
Sarawak runs its own immigration autonomy under the Malaysia Agreement, so S-MM2H is a genuinely separate programme with its own rules, its own minimum age (lowered to 30 in 2025) and a light 30-day presence test. It is confined to Sarawak — the pass does not give you the rest of Malaysia.
Qualifying routes
RM 500,000 fixed deposit with a local bank in Sarawak per the official 2025 announcement; up to 50% reported withdrawable after one year in defined circumstances. Some sources continue to describe an RM 150,000 tier with RM 7,000 monthly pension or offshore income — this could not be reconciled
The facts
- Qualifying figure
- 500k MYR
- Total landed cost
- RM 500,000 fixed deposit per the 2025 announcement, plus fees. Figures unreliable — verify before acting.
- Timeline
- 2–6 months — Historically faster than federal MM2H
- Physical presence
- 30 days per year in Sarawak for the principal, reviewable every five years
- Family
- spousechildrenparents in defined circumstances
- Permanent residency
- none
- Citizenship
- none
- Language test
- not applicable
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted — you would have to renounce
- Requirements
- Minimum age 30 (lowered from 50 with effect from 1 January 2025)Fixed deposit in a Sarawak bank — amount disputed between sources (see statusNote)Pension or offshore income evidenceApplicants must be from countries with diplomatic relations with Malaysia30 days per year minimum stay in Sarawak
- We could not reconcile the fixed deposit figure across sources — the official 2025 announcement says RM 500,000 while widely circulated agent material says RM 150,000. Do not act on either without direct confirmation from the Sarawak authorities.
- Sarawak controls its own immigration. The pass is valid for Sarawak, not peninsular Malaysia, and moving between them is not automatic.
- As with all MM2H variants: no permanent residency, no citizenship, no security of tenure.
- The programme has been restructured at least twice in recent years.