Moral Of The Story: Check Your Passport Before You Leave Immigration As Singaporean Muslims prepare for the upcoming Hari Raya festivities, many will be making a trip to nearby Johor Bahru to stock up on Eid goodies. That’s just what a certain Ms Nabilah did with her family this week. They returned to Singapore early on Monday (4 Jun) morning. But what should have been a simple chop, scan and go through Malaysian and Singaporean immigration became a drawn-out affair that involved a return trip to Malaysia. Ms Nabilah detailed her experience on Facebook and we summarise it after the jump. It started with a wrong date According to Ms Nabilah, the immigration officer at Johor chopped her passport with a “20 February 2018” stamp, suggesting that she left the country on 20 February. Source That’s nearly 4 months earlier than the date Ms Nabilah had actually left. She writes, Can you imagine how many passports he chopped that night? Ms Nabilah and her family noticed the error immediately but were not able to stop to rectify it as there were many drivers behind them. They also went through every page of their passport to make sure that it was […]
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