Report: Putrajaya tightens checks on expat retirement programme
Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Mohamaddin Ketapi last week announced the setting up of a task force comprising officials from immigration and the police force, to speed up the approval process for the backlogged MM2H applications. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
“But we are stricter now due to heightened security threats such as terrorism and syndicates, and we wouldn’t want these people to jeopardise public order.” Set up in 2002 to woo expatriates, the programme has approved the long-stay visas for more than 40,000 people from 131 countries. An average of 3,000 foreigners were granted long-stay visas in each of the last six years, according to the official MM2H website.
There are also worries over money laundering, with foreign dirty cash parked in housing units, ST said.
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