From December 1 this yr, all foreign tourists visiting Malaysia are required to finish the Malaysia Digital Arrival Card (MDAC). The Malaysian Immigration Department announced on its Facebook account that the digital card have to be accomplished before arrival.
According to the Department of Immigration’s MDAC website, there are only three categories of exemptions. These include travelers transiting or connecting through Singapore without obtaining immigration clearance, everlasting residents of Malaysia and holders of the Malaysian Automated Customs Clearance System (MACS).
The information also states that the MDAC card have to be accomplished a minimum of three days before the date of arrival in Malaysia. Visitors are expected to supply their personal details, including name, nationality and passport details. Visitors must also provide their arrival date, departure date, mode of transportation (air, land or sea) and last port of departure.
To enter the country, travelers must present their passport and accomplished MDAC to an entry control officer upon arrival.
An infographic published by the Department of Immigration indicates that visitors from 10 countries (Australia, Brunei, Germany, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom) are eligible to make use of autogate upon arrival or departure in Terminal 1 or Terminal 2 KLIA.
To use the automated gate at KLIA for immigration processing, visitors should have a passport valid for a minimum of six months.
First-time visitors to the world won’t find a way to make use of Autogate as they are going to must present MDAC three days prior to arrival after which register and manually confirm their passport on the immigration counter.
Once these procedures are accomplished, visitors can use the autogate on subsequent visits (nonetheless, they’re still required to submit MDAC three days prior to every visit to Malaysia).
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, Singapore has discontinued using white, physical arrival cards.
