Applying for or renewing your passport used to be a time-consuming process. Now, with the recent upgrades and procedures in place, one can get his or her new passport within 2 hours!
Source: Tall Pisces Girl
Still, there are a few things that need to be considered. First, you need to be there early because the queue can get super long. Secondly, you need to dress appropriately so that you don’t have to wear those used jackets they have hanging on the rack there.
Source: Tall Pisces Girl
These are small things to think about je. Importantly, make sure you are not blacklisted because tak bayar PTPTN pula!
For one man, he faced a particular issue — his shiny head.
Yes, as shared in a video recently by Nazirul Nazrin, a bald man had an issue when he wanted to take his passport photo because his head was too reflective, causing the picture taken to not meet the standards for a decent passport photo.
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Luckily, our immigration officers were very professional about it, and they seemed to have prepared for such a situation. As seen in the video, the two officers were holding some sort of black panels over the man’s head to reduce the glare and to prevent his head from reflecting the light above.
The person recording the video couldn’t help but snicker away at his predicament. Watch it here:
Silau sangat smpai akak imigresen kene tekup kepala ?✨
Posted by Nazirul Nazrin on Saturday, June 15, 2019
In the end, we assume that they managed to overcome the challenge, and the man went home with a new passport.
Kudos to the Malaysia Immigration Department officers who are ever-ready in such situations to ensure that everyone can enjoy a quick and painless visit.
Also read: Malaysians Can Actually Renew Their Passports Online Since 2016
