Malaysia · Passive income
Sarawak Malaysia My Second Home
Reformed with effect from 1 January 2025, and now administered separately from the 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 here is low. Verify directly with the Sarawak Ministry of Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts.
Sarawak runs its own immigration system under the Malaysia Agreement. That makes S-MM2H 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 access to 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% is reported withdrawable after one year in defined circumstances. Some sources still describe an RM 150,000 tier with RM 7,000 monthly pension or offshore income. The two do not reconcile.
The facts
- Minimum
- 500k MYR
- Total landed cost
- RM 500,000 fixed deposit per the 2025 announcement, plus fees. These figures are unreliable. Verify them before you act.
- Route type
- Income requirement
- Timeline
- 2–6 months (Historically faster than the federal MM2H.)
- Physical presence
- 30 days per year in Sarawak for the principal applicant, reviewable every five years.
- Family
- SpouseChildrenParents can qualify under 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.A fixed deposit in a Sarawak bank. The amount is disputed between sources, see statusNote.Evidence of pension or offshore income.Applicants must come from countries with diplomatic relations with Malaysia.A minimum stay of 30 days per year in Sarawak.
- The fixed deposit figure does not reconcile across sources. The official 2025 announcement says RM 500,000, while widely circulated agent material says RM 150,000. Do not act on either figure without direct confirmation from the Sarawak authorities.
- Sarawak controls its own immigration. The pass is valid for Sarawak, not for peninsular Malaysia, and moving between the two is not automatic.
- As with all MM2H variants, there is no permanent residency, no citizenship and no security of tenure.
- The programme has been restructured at least twice in recent years.