Conversion of Driver's License to Malaysian License

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Driving at your right side: Malaysian driving position.
Transportation is a necessity in Malaysia. Whethever you are, you must have your own transport to get you to places you want to go. Public transport here (Johor) is limited unlike other countries such as the Philippines where you can go anywhere you want with variation of public transport. 

Malaysia has public transportation but it is limited to certain places. There are a few regular public bus that can fetch you from your work to your place such as the housing estate. The only available transport is through taxi and busses  that is only allowed to pick public passengers in a certain identified picking station. Hence, one should be prepared to pay lots of ringgit just for transport.

Even when applying for a job, one of the requirements for employers is if you have transport - be it in the teaching, hospitality, or in construction and customer online service industry. This pushes me to apply for the conversion of my Philippine driving license to a Malaysian driving license.

Hence, in my case, I acquired my Malaysian driving license using the Bilateral agreement among other nations in ASEAN and to the rest of the world. 

Here is the process:

a. I went to the Philippines Embassy and submitted the required documents for them to issue a certification that my driver's license is genuine, holding a specific restriction together with a note of when I have started driving in my home country.

b. The requirements for this includes:

1. Front and back photocopy of my Philippines driver's license.
2. Original receipt of the last transaction (registration) I have undergone in the Philippines (optional).
3. Visa of at least six months. However, in my case, I need to submit a photocopy of translated collection slip of my Immigration transaction for my visa with details of my wife as well as the chop coming from the Commissioner on Oath authenticating that the transaction was genuine.
4. A payment of RM 106.50 processing fee.
5. A paid Malaysian courier envelope of about 4-6 RM so that your requested document will be sent to your state. For me, I waited for almost 2 weeks for the document to be delivered to my wife's house due to public holidays (Chinese New Year).

JPJ office in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
By the time I acquired my driving certification coming from my embassy, my wife's family assisted me to process the conversion of my driver's license to a Malaysian license. It's good that my father in-law helped me to acquire the form from Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan Malaysia (JPJ), otherwise known as the Road Transport Department (RTD) in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Here are the requirements I've prepared:

a. Filled up form from JPJ for conversion affixing my signatures
b. Copy of my Philippine passport
c. Copy of the Philippine Driver's License
d. Certification from my embassy
e. My wife's IC 
f. Marriage Cert (JPN Putrajaya release)
g. My six months visa
h. ID with size 25 mm x 32 mm in white background
i. JPJ payment: 30 RM for one year
j. JPJ processing fee: 10.50 RM

The processing time for this depends on the number of people applying in the JPJ office. The applicant must be early to ensure faster transaction. In my case, the processing took about one and a half hours.

Other sources of driving conversion can be checked to this link: http://www.mm2h.gov.my/pdf/mm2h11.pdf.

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