{"id":48745,"date":"2024-02-21T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=48745"},"modified":"2024-02-21T17:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:05:59","slug":"malaysia-passport-reforms%f0%9f%9b%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/malaysia-passport-reforms%f0%9f%9b%82\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Passport Reforms\ud83d\udec2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently, Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail announced that the Immigration Department is looking into extending the validity of Malaysian passports from 5 years to 10 years.<\/div>\n
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With that being announced, I strongly support the decision from the Government as I have been pushing for this move since 2021.<\/div>\n
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I hope that this policy amendment will be introduced as soon as possible and for the price of passports to remain at RM200 (for applicants aged 13-59 years old, RM100 for 60years and above).<\/div>\n
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Benefits that we have with 10 year passport validity are as follows:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1. Reduce the demand for passport renewals as most current passports are underutilized before expiry date.<\/div>\n
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2. Reduce the amount of manpower and resources required at the Immigration offices, embassies, and high commissions, purely for passport renewals.<\/div>\n
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3. Relieve Malaysians residing overseas the stress of having an expired passport during pandemic or disaster lockdown, thus unable to return to Malaysia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I hope that this new policy will be implemented as soon as possible!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Andrew Chen Kah Eng<\/div>\n
Stulang Assemblyman<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail announced that the Immigration Department is looking into extending the validity of Malaysian passports from 5 years to 10 years. With that being announced, I strongly support the decision from the Government as I have been pushing for this move since 2021. I hope that this policy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,475],"tags":[2709,1054,3085],"class_list":{"0":"post-48745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-affairs","8":"category-national","9":"tag-andrew-chen","10":"tag-home-ministry","11":"tag-passport"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48750,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745\/revisions\/48750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}