Transfer of Endorsement From Your Old Passport To Your New Passport In Malaysia

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I would like to share this experience of mine whereby I was in a dilemma on how to do things about my new passport as well as the transferring of my visa from my old passport to my new passport. This is actually new to me but I believe some knew about this matter already.

I also believe that this is worth sharing for especially for those who have the same situation like me. Let me start this story…

With our new passport, our embassy will eventually punctured our old passport. That’s the rule. Which means, once a passport is punctured, it is already considered invalid.  Just like what happened to me during the Immigration Check at CIQ in JB. We are supposed to travel to Singapore for a short holiday on that day, but the immigration officer told us that I need to transfer the visa endorsement from my old passport to my new passport. 

Yes, I am allowed to exit Malaysia on that day, but the officer advised me that when I returned back to Malaysia, I will be in trouble. I will be paying something like “JP Pass worth RM500”. So in the end, we decided to cancel our trip to Singapore.  And at that time, I feel so sad for my son and my wife because we are all excited to see the animals in Singapore zoo… let me continue the story...

We went home very upset. So I immediately searched articles online about this situation but there were no much write up about this subject. So we decided to go to the immigration office at Setia Tropika to do all this necessary actions/ arrangement about this matter.

In our inquiry to the Immigration office, my situation is under the transaction of “Transfer of Endorsement”, whereby your spouse or your company will write a formal letter to the Immigration officer about your request to transfer your visa from your old passport to you new passport. Here are the requirements:

  • A letter in Bahasa Language addressed to the Head of Immigration office where you are based.
  • Application form (Borang IM 12)
  • Photocopy of your old passport personal data page
  • Photocopy of your old passport Work Permit/ Spouse Visa / Multiple Entry
  • Photocopy of your New Passport Personal data page
  • Immigration Fee (I’m not sure but according to a source it’s about RM15-20- this needs to be confirmed)
  • Processing time will take you about 3-4 weeks.

I believe that things happened for a reason. We may not get into that short holiday but the good thing was that, we manage to renew my Spouse / Multiple Visa into my new passport without undergoing a “Transfer of Endorsement” which will take about 3-4 weeks and without paying JP pass worth RM500.

And just an advice to all spouses: Once you got your new passport, you need to update your visa to be transferred first to that passport at the immigration officer then to be followed by your:
  •    Bank account (update)
  •     Drivers licence
  •     HR (your company)
  •     Marriage Cert (but according to the a lawyer- it is not necessary)
  •     Spouse’s EPF and everything 
      Always remember that once you got a new passport, automatically your documents  will identify you based on your new passport number. 


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