Passport Renewal: From 1 HOUR TO 5.5 HOURS!!!

Today is a horribly-tiring-day!

Lotsa detours done + lotsa time wasted! :(

Here are the chronicles of today's happenings:

9am
Departed for breakfast.

Reached Old Town White Coffee at ss21, but it wasn't opened.

However, you can see the staffs sittin' and chillin' around outside!!!

In the end, Hubby suggested Mentari's Old Town.

9.30am
 Reached Mentari's Old Town White Coffee

Here's our superb breakfast!

Yummmmm~

Tadaaaa!
The kaya butter toast I've been craving for so long!!

Keke, Hubby and I ordered 2 My Toast Sets

+

1 double kaya butter toast

The thick butter content plus rich kaya spread

That melt in every single bite,

Made me feel so sho satisfied and satiated!

Anyway, after breakie, we moved on to Immigration office:

10.30am
Arrived at Subang Airport Terminal 2

Hubby parked the car and as we walked to the building,

We were totally devastated!

The whole place was exactly like a DEAD TOWN! *literally*

Don't get conned!!!

Those people who parked there are those working in the

next building.

Wasted $$$!!!!

The only sense of life we could pick up is
The Malay coffee shop beside the old immigration office
Upon inquiring from the old lady there
Only we knew (more to "I" as Hubby was otp =.=)
That Immigration Office had been relocated to
Kelana Jaya Glomac Business area (SS7)

Hence, here we went to our next destination:

11am

Arrived at Immigration Office, Kelana Jaya

Plaza Glomac - That's where the new
Subang Immigration Office is located

Upon reaching, you could see a front-desk counter

Where you can get your number + application form

Mind you, please check that you have

All documents* ready, as these 2 officers will check

If you have incomplete documents,

You will be denied a queuing number and application form

Only after you have all necessary documents in hand,

You need to queue again just to get an application form

After filling up, you need to queue AGAIN

Then when it's your turn, the officers will then give you a blardy number

(So many queues to make huh?)

So please check carefully that you have all documents in hand.

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*Documents that you'll need:

1) a Photocopy of MyKad (Both sides on the same page)

2) 2 copies of passport size photos (blue background)

3) Your old passport

4) CASH!!!

(2 years - RM100; 5 years - RM300)

*Note: Application form is only applicable for those new applications

For renewal, you may use the kiosk (faster), that's also if your passport has a chip*

Passport renewal kiosk required documents

For passport renewal kiosk only
Note the statement of "Passport BERCHIP"

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Well, as mentioned, we arrived at the Immigration Office at 11am

Thank Goodness Hubby and I had everything needed

We next scooted over to queue at passport renewal Kiosk

There were about 8 persons ahead of us

It took about 30minutes to our turn

AND YOU KNOW WHAT???

After inserting my passport into the machine

The machine's supposed to detect your thumb prints on the chip

The STRANGE thing is

That stupid machine COULD NOT READ MY THUMB PRINT!!!

~!@#$%^&*

The lady officer there advised me to do manual application instead!!!

Meaning I have to queue up to get a form

Filled up

Then queued again to get a stupid number!

SO SO KANASAI!

Here I thought I could happily finish everything within an hour

Mana tau....

GOSH!

Both Hubby and I waited till about 1pm for my number to be called

(in the meantime, we went over to a coffee shop next door for a drink)

After going through the hassles and tassels of application procedures

By the time payment was made, it was already almost 2pm.

Upon payment, the officer gave me a receipt

Well this was not the one she gave, the above receipt is from
passport renewal kiosk (Hubby's).
However similar statements were printed.

From the receipt, it is clearly stated that you'll have to collect your

New passport 1 hour after payment is made

So we checked out of Plaza Glomac

And the parking rate there is CRAZY!!!

It cost us a total of RM6!!!

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

During that 1 hour, Hubby and I sprinted to SS15

(Inti Subang) to get my cert certified

+

Collect my purchased item from a blogshop

:D

After everything's done, it was already 3pm.

3pm
Went back to Immigration Office

After handing over my receipt, a while later
My name was called

And you know what the officers told me?????

Officers: Do you have any other photos?

Me: Why?

Officers: Your photos cannot be used. It's too bright.

(I think that's what they said)

Me: !!!! But I don't have any

Officers: Then you need to take NEW PHOTOS!!!

*pointed at the booth at the end corner of the office*

OH MY GAWD!

I ALMOST FAINTED!!!

I need to blardy queue AGAIN for that stupid photo shoot

And I looked more like a ghost than myself in that stupid photo!!!

Wasted $$$$$ taking the previous ones!!

!@#$%^@#!

So after submitting my photos

I have to WAIT again for them to laminate the new photos into my passport

Hubby and I waited and waited, finally my name was called again

Then only I get my new passport and signed.

By then, it was already almost 4.30pm

So from 11am till 4.30pm,

The whole application process took about

A BLARDY 5.5 HOURS!!!

From the supposedly 1 HOUR to 5.5 HOURS!!!

KEK SEI ME TO THE MAX!!!

Hopefully I could use that stupid kiosk during my next renewal

Which will be...
5 years later

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For more info about Kelana Jaya's Passport Immigration Office:

Address: Blok A, Plaza Glomac,

             Jalan SS7/19, Kelana Jaya

             47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Telephone: 03 -7885 0975 / 149 / 301 / 010

Fax:          03 -7885 0243

Office Hours: Monday - Friday   7.30am - 1.00pm, 2.00pm to 5.30pm

                  Saturday - Sunday 8.00am - 1.00pm (Passport processing only)

Remark: Passport will be ready within 1 hour after payment is made.

For more info, please visit here

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*A little note to Hubby:

Thank you for accompanying me throughout the whole process.

You have always been the best ♥*