previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\nMy personal advise is to use the photo studios at the Immigration Department. There are usually a few and the people there know exactly how to take the photo for your different requirements (e.g. passport, visa etc) and they know exactly how you should look. It isn’t as pricey too. I paid RM15\/4 photos at an external photo shop. When I retook my photos at a random photo studio at the Immigration department, I paid RM12\/4 photos (and I looked better – my hair looked a little lopsided but I looked better overall \ud83d\ude1b )<\/p>\n
The early bird catches the worm \n<\/strong><\/p>\nIf you are Malaysian looking to renew your passport at the Immigration Department, you can do it at the self-service machines (only up till 55 years old – above 55 years you have to get it done manually).<\/p>\n
At the Immigration Department at Pusat Bandar Damansara, its in Block I <\/strong>on the ground floor and its called KiPPAS. No idea why the corny acronym which means “fan” in Malay. Incidentally, the air conditioning wasn’t working and there was no “kipas” in sight \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\nGo early. I was there at about 8+am and there was about 5 people per machine. I went back at 11am and there were more than 20 people in the queue in the hot sun. If you are reading up till here, you probably want to know how to go about renewing your Malaysian passport (or are really bored with your day) so here goes.<\/p>\n
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What to bring to renew your Malaysian passport<\/strong><\/p>\nHere’s what you should bring with you to renew your passport:-<\/p>\n
\nYour expired passport<\/li>\n 1 passport photo<\/li>\n 1 photocopy of your MyKad IC<\/li>\n RM100 (2 years validity) or RM300 (5 years validity)<\/li>\n Pick up the envelope at the counter inside and complete your name, NRIC number and Telephone number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIf you can read English or Malay and can follow simple instructions, it will not take you more than 10 minutes at the machine to complete the transaction. You can pick up your new passport within 2 hours, the charter says. I gave them half a day just to be sure \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n
If you are super bored and want to know how the process at the self-service passport renewal machine goes, here it is \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n
\nChoose English or Bahasa Malaysia<\/li>\n Insert your passport (just like you do at the Autogate at the airport)<\/li>\n Insert your Mykad IC (slot is below the passport – don’t try feeding it where the money goes like I did \ud83d\ude1b )<\/li>\n Verify the information using your thumb.<\/li>\n Remove your passport and mykad.<\/li>\n Verify your height and key in your Telephone contact number.<\/li>\n Verify your personal information that shows up on the screen.<\/li>\n Choose the number of years you want your passport valid for and pay the requisite amount.<\/li>\n Place the passport, copy of your IC and 1 photo into the envelope you filled up earlier and drop it into the slot provided.<\/li>\n Complete and pick up the receipt generated by the machine.<\/li>\n Pick up your new passport later in the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAnd there you go! I’m not exactly thrilled with how I presently look in my new passport but I do look marginally better than in my old one. When I produce my old passport at foreign immigration counters, they’d look twice to make doubly sure – I don’t think they believed it was me \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n
Are you as traumatized about taking ID photos and passport photos as I am? It takes a lot of psyching up for me to get it done and despite all my preparations, I’m never quite satisfied with how I look. Sigh…<\/p>\n
A community service guideline by…<\/p>\n
Paris B \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Note:<\/strong> I live in Kuala Lumpur. This guideline was written based on my experience using the passport renewal kiosk. I do not know how else or where else you can renew your passport nor the opening times of the immigration offices in Malaysia nor other ways in which to renew your passport outside of Malaysia, and how long that will take. For all formal questions relating to your Malaysian passport, please check at the immigration offices. Caveat Emptor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’ve been reading my Tweets, you might have read my moaning about having to renew my passport, which means having to take a new photo ID for the new passport. If you have a decent enough camera you can actually take your own passport photos – this way, you can be sure you look<\/p>\n
Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nTips for Taking Passport or ID photos and Renewing Malaysian Passports - My Women Stuff<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n