Its easy to renew your Malaysian passport

Renewing your Malaysian passport is easy and speedy with the Passport Kiosk.

There are 2 parts to this process, each takes about 5 minutes, give and take. If you are impressed so am I!

The passport renewal machine found at the ground floor of the Immigration Department at Pusat Bandar Damansara (Block I) has the facility to accept the payment ($300 for a 32 page passport), after which you drop your passport in the machine together with 1 passport-sized photo, and a photocopy of your IC.

After dropping the passport, the machine prints acknowledgment slip and informs you to come back in 2 hours time to collect your passport. You can have tea, lunch or go shopping during that time. Or come back the next day (as long as you remember to collect within 3 months!)

The machine checks your thumb print against your IC, so the applicant needs to be present.

Note : The machine does not accept the new $50 currency note, so do remember to bring the old $50 notes, until such time that the machine has been re-calibrated.

There are many shops near to the immigration departmentwhere you can take instant passport size photos and make a photocopy of the IC. So just go with your old passport and money! If you are still blur about renewing, just ask the people who man the copier or the make-shift photo studio. There is also a guard on standby to help out.