Things You Need to Know to Renounce Your Malaysian Citizenship

Vern Chan
8 min readFeb 9, 2020

As a born and breed Malaysian, the last thing we think of is to give up our citizenships and its accompanying identity. However, some still made the heavy decision to renounce after obtaining citizenship of another country. The most common factor for such move is the need to withdraw Employees’ Provident Funds (EPF) in full, prior the official retirement age (extended from 55 to 60 years old over the years and there’s proposal to raise to 62).

Shall the time finally ripe and you decided to renounce in Malaysia, here’re some…

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Vern Chan

A curious mind who writes on various topics that aim to inspire change, or at least, helpful. A certified startup coach tries to improve the odds of success.