Originally Posted by Nayef

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What I know is that only certain countries demand API and Malaysia isn't one of them. Malaysian authorities likely will not demand anything aside from seeing your Malaysian passport. If you book separate tickets and tell them you were in a third country this whole time, it stands to complicate things further.

A lot of this has to do with knowing people who have done similar extensive travel. Many of my friends are Saudi-Americans, and they book flights from the US to Saudi via a European airline and they use their Saudi passport info (mind you Saudi isn't a country that demands API edit: it's possible that Saudi demands API). Despite the API, U.S. authorities never asked them about their Saudi passports presumably on the API system whenever they landed in the States. They just show the proper passports at the proper times and they've been doing this for 20+ years. I imagine it's similar in Malaysia.

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