Hello,
I am a Belgium citizen and had to leave Malaysia in March 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. I would like to come back to Malaysia and are desperately looking for solutions. As I was informed that the MM2H program was suspended and that it will be extremely difficult to find a job and therefore an employee visa in Malaysia; I dig further and find : "The long term social visit pass".
Can someone help me understand what is this program ? The conditions that are necessary to apply for this visa ? Eventually share useful links ?
Please if you have any other solution, could you share your insights ?
I would be very grateful if somebody could help me.
Long term social visit visa
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As of 7th September new countries were added to a ban that does not allow people to enter Malaysia from. Not sure if Belgium was on it.
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Belgium was one of the 23 countries listed for temporary bans.
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Long Term Social Visit Pass is for family....that being your Malaysian wife sponsors you, or that you have Malaysian relatives you want to come and stay with for a while. A person might be american with a Malaysian cousin or something. Usually though, its for the foreign spouse of a Malaysian. Under this program you can also apply for a work pass but to my knowledge very few are given. I previously asked and was denied. In any case the LTSVP starts with 6 months, then a year, then three years to continually prove you are still married.
That said, LTSVP is highlighted as the visa most denied for re-entry during Covid. If you have a Malaysian spouse and you have to go back to your country for a problem, you can basically forget coming back again. With my LTSVP I am totally stuck in Malaysia, I cant leave because it would be a one-way ticket assuming I could even get permission to leave in the first place.
My advice is to follow the winds which indicate staying where you are for now.
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