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Ministry to target 3,000
second home applicants
24/12/2007 The Star By Manjit
Kaur
PETALING JAYA: The Tourism Ministry is targeting 3,000 applications for the
Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme next year.
Deputy Tourism Minister Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai said up to November this
year, 1,700 applications had been approved.
Lim: “We need to teach the 200 agents engaged by the ministry to handle the
programme according to the guidelines and regulations."
This year, most of the applicants were from Britain, Japan, and South Korea.
“We need to teach the 200 agents engaged by the ministry to handle the
programme according to the guidelines and regulations.
“By next year they would be more experienced in handling the applications,”
he said in an interview yesterday.
Lim added that the agents had formed an association, and the ministry
officials held regular dialogues with them to ensure they understood the law
properly.
Although many people had submitted applications, he said most could not be
approved as the required documents were not attached.
“It is not that we are delaying approving the applications, but we need
proper documents to show that the right people are chosen,” he added.
Since the programme started in 1996, which was then known as the Silver Hair
programme, close to 10,700 applications had been approved. |
