In 2019, Malaysia's government said that some people registered through Tabung Haji faced a pilgrimage wait estimated at as much as 100 years. Registrations exceeded the available Hajj quota, and the savings institution maintained each depositor's place in the sequence. After restructuring its finances, the government said it would examine ways to shorten the wait.
What distinguishes this wait is its scale: not hours outside an office, but an order for fulfilling a religious obligation that could extend beyond a lifetime. Intention, savings and a national quota were joined in one list, turning life planning itself into ordered waiting.