Renewing Your Malaysian Passport

Just a small note on the process of renewing my (Malaysian) passport. Who knows, this might help some curious readers out there.

Ok, First thing that I did was visit the Malaysian Immigration website at http://www.imi.gov.my/. To my amazement, this site was actually pretty good and very informative as well. Next thing I did was to download the passport renewal form (ur gonna need at least acrobat reader 5.0) and printed it out. I filled it up and proceeded to the immigration department in Pusat Bandar Damansara the following day.

I arrived there at about 8 am. Found out I needed to get my passport photo taken first, so I wasted some time there but luckily there were many photo centres there and it took about 5 minutes to get it done. Next was to proceed to the immigration office. Go up the escalator, enter the door to the right, and follow the yellow line on the ground. You'll end up at the rightmost counter where you show them ur form, with photos and a copy of ur IC. Then they'll give u a number. Wait. Usually it wouldn't take long (if u r early) but in my case, I was unlucky. The system went dowdown for more than an hour, damn. Once ur number is called, head to the counter and present them with ur documents .They'll hold on to ur IC. Once they accept it, u then gotta wait till they call ur number again. This time head to the the cashier counter and pay RM300. They'll return ur IC and give u a receipt to collect ur passport the next day.

Collecting ur passport is pretty much the same process. Head up the same escalator, this time enter the door to the left and keep heading left. You'll reach the collection counters. Present them with ur receipt, get a number. Once they call ur number, you can go ahead and collect ur passport.

Notes:

1) Bring a copy of ur IC
2) Prepare 2 passport sized photographs
3) Download and fill up the form accordingly
4) Bring RM300