Originally Posted by
carrotjuice
And Malaysian citizens are not exempt, only permanent residents? Such woeful incompetence...
Somehow when they copied and paste, they forgot to include the word “foreign” travelers. The Home Affairs website has it where as the immigration department (which is part of the Home Affairs Ministry) didn’t. Welcome to Malaysia
Originally Posted by
SanDiego1K
We entered Malaysia a few days ago before this requirement. We are now in Sabah, where we had to show our passport for admittance. We are returning to the mainland. Will we be required to have a Digital Arrival Card?
Musing: I was surprised to be required to show our passport on entering Sabah as they are part of the same country.
No MDAC required for internal Malaysia travel. Sabah, Sarawak and previously Singapore was part of Malaysia. When they joined the federation in 1963, they retained a few autonomies and one of them includes immigration.
Malaysians born in the peninsula without any one parent of Sabah/Sarawak heritage aren’t allowed to work/live long term in the Bornean states where as those born in the Bornean states are allowed to work/live long term in Peninsula Malaysia without any requirements.
Peninsula Malaysians are given a 3-month social visit pass upon arrival in Sabah/Sarawak too 🌝
Originally Posted by
Midships
Interesting question, I guessing for travel in between states the answer is "no", but that's a guess.
I'm heading to Sabah from Singapore via KUL at the end of the month (new year in Sepilok) so please do pop back and let us know what happened.
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You’d have to clear immigration twice. Once in KUL to enter Malaysia and the next one to enter Sabah. You don’t get a new Malaysia stamp entering Sabah. You’d just a get a stamp near your Malaysia entry stamp “entered Sabah on xx”.
All entry/exit Sabah/Sarawak immigration are done there. No immigration when upon arrival in the peninsula.