Editorial policy
Every figure on this site is traced to an official source, reviewed by a named person, and stamped with the date it was last checked. This page explains how that works, and what happens when the rules change — which, for Malaysian visas, they do often.
One source of truth for every number
Fees, deposits, income thresholds, tenures and property minimums are the whole point of this site, and a wrong one is worse than a missing page. So every number lives in a single verified data file, and the guides, the comparison table, the eligibility checker and the cost calculator all read from that one file. Change a rule in one place and it updates everywhere at once — the four pages can never quietly disagree with each other.
The rule behind that file is simple: nothing renders a number that didn't come with an official source. If a figure can't be confirmed against a government page, it is flagged for review rather than published.
Where the figures come from
Each number is checked against the authority that owns it:
- PVIP — the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture and the Immigration Department of Malaysia.
- MM2H — the MM2H centre at MOTAC (mm2h.motac.gov.my).
- Sarawak MM2H — Sarawak Immigration and the state programme office, which runs separately from the federal scheme.
- DE Rantau — MDEC, which administers the nomad pass.
- Student Pass — EMGS (educationmalaysia.gov.my), which processes student applications.
- Employment Pass — the Expatriate Services Division of the Immigration Department.
Where a source publishes a figure in US dollars, it is shown in US dollars; where it publishes in ringgit, it is shown in ringgit. The site does not convert between the two, because the exchange rate moves and the official threshold does not.
Review and dating
Every guide carries a “last reviewed” date and a named reviewer — Jason Yap, Chairman of the PVIP Agent Association — at the foot of the page. That date is functional, not decorative: a visa figure from two years ago may simply be wrong, and both readers and AI assistants are right to trust a recently-checked page more than an undated one. If a page hasn't been reviewed recently, its date says so plainly rather than hiding it.
When a rule changes
Malaysian visa rules change with little warning — fees are revised, tiers are added, qualification routes open and close. When that happens the fix goes into the one data file, which updates every page that cites the figure, and the review date on the affected guides is reset to the day the change was verified. Older superseded figures are replaced, not left standing alongside the new ones, so there is never a stale number lingering on a secondary page.
Independence and corrections
The site is run by someone with a commercial interest in some of these programmes, and that relationship is disclosed in full on the about page. The editorial commitment that goes with it is that the cheaper and do-it-yourself routes are covered as honestly as the ones an agency is paid to file, and that each guide's “who it doesn't suit” section is written straight.
Spotted a figure that looks wrong, or a rule that has moved on? Tell us— corrections to the numbers are the most useful message this site can receive, and they are checked against the official source and fixed at the point they're confirmed.