天美麻豆

@cinnamonape I'm glad everything about your SM2H extension went well. When you come around to re-applying at the 10-year mark, I would not be surprised if they give you VIP treatment. You are, after all, a kind of ambassador for their SM2H ... Read More

@Cobolin Thanks, Cobolin. I'm happy the conditions for your renewal/extension will not change. In this regard, I would say the Sarawak government is acting quite honorably toward its stakeholders. Bid you smooth sailing ahead. Read More

Cinnamonape, hi. I understand you recently renewed your SM2H. Congratulations on navigating that successfully. In getting your extension/renewal, did you have to submit a Certificate of Good Conduct which the new rules require? (I know when you ... Read More

mbelderink108, you must be talking about the Hartamas area in KL. I know what you mean. The noise pollution at that hotel is crazy. Dogs yelping incessantly, some rooster going cock-a-doodle-doo literally non-stop for hours starting before ... Read More

So what happened in the end, @MohamedLeach? Did you manage to recover your deposit? Read More

With the piped gas system for cooking, there is a rectangular box-like apparatus high up on the wall above the gas valve.聽 If you spray something (like bug spray) and the spray contacts that box, the apparatus will emit a long beeping sound (a ... Read More

Anyone moving to Canada lately? Is the overt racism toward Chinese people more or less than before? I think Calgary is very anti-Asian, now even more so than before. Am I right or wrong? Read More

Thank you, Cobolin, for your nice, concise answer. Read More

Is vaccination mandatory? Do expats have a choice to not vaccinate? Read More

Cvco, maybe you don't know this because you're not one of these persons. The reason some people never learn is because they don't realize they've been scammed. It's a form of denial. To admit to themselves that they've been ... Read More

Cobolin: I think people who are reading 天美麻豆 (like me) would be better served having both or all sides to some interpretation when there has been nothing in writing to substantiate that interpretation. Two years ago, in the Sabah forum, ... Read More

Cobolin: The reason we are even talking about the possibility of the New Rules applying to "oldies" is because there is NO GRANDFATHERING CLAUSE anywhere to be found. Look again at the Wikipedia that you copied over, above: "A ... Read More

I am genuinely very happy for the both of you, Cobolin and Cinnamonape, if it is true as Cobolin says that (he is convinced) the 15 day/year and medical insurance only apply to visas granted post-September 2020 and have no bearing on the oldies who ... Read More

Cinnamonape: I think you're not taking into account the fact that your Conditional Letter of Approval (and the language it uses in 2.3) was a template or form letter that was issued prior to this September 2020 set of New Rules. When your ... Read More

Cinnamonape wrote above "There is no statement about how someone on the 5-year program is to renew." Precisely. And yet your Conditional Letter of Approval 2.3 refers to the procedure as "renewing pass". It is hard to imagine ... Read More

Cinnamonape, if you had a piece of paper, you could sell it for money or a beer or a meal, I trust. There is also nothing preventing you trading your apple for my orange. The rules do not allow people to work. But if you had something worth money, ... Read More

Cobolin: It is page 23 (of 29) of this link: [link under review] Click on the link that is shown on that webpage: 2) APPLICATION GUIDE FOR S-MM2H (1ST SEPTEMBER 2020) Go to page 23 (of 29). At the bottom, it says "Quick Notes page 23" ... Read More

Hi everyone. I have been re-reading stuff I read to pinpoint the source of my impression that the New SMM2H Rules are applicable to oldies applying for extension/renewal in terms of the health insurance and 15 days/year new requirements. Please ... Read More

CVCO : You know the old saying, don't you? "There's a sucker born every minute." It's true. Read More

I doubt any govt official would deliberately mislead you. Not even trump. Maybe there have not been requests for renewals since the new rules were introduced in September so she had no experience with this issue yet to reply to you. Or maybe she ... Read More

Looking at the Letter of Conditional Approval posted above by Cinnamonape, it seems (my opinion) the Letter does not set out any terms for an extension or renewal, other than it tells you to bring 3 months of pension statements when next applying ... Read More

Cinnamonape: Can you redact the personal information from the Letter of Conditional Approval and post a copy here so we can see what it says? Or maybe copy and paste the text of it here, without any personal info? I don't know what are its ... Read More

Cinnamonape: Sorry about my belated reply. Went out Saturday and got back so late that I slept in all day Sunday. I want to say first off that, when I started reading 天美麻豆, you and Gravitas were the two top experts on Malaysia (even though ... Read More

Much kudos to you, Cinnamonape. I have read all your posts and consider you the premier authority on all things Malaysia, especially the SM2H on which you are indisputably the ranking expert. But I think you might be in error about one thing. The ... Read More