Help please, passport validity question
Feb 7, 2018, 5:39 am
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Update. Having spoken to GGL the issue is more about the flight to KUL. I have been advised that the 6 month validity will prevent boarding the flight to KUL. Their official advice for Thailand is passport validity beyond length of stay only. I tried to suggest if there were any documents I could show to prove in transit only but was rebuffed
Feb 7, 2018, 5:44 am
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That doesn't sound correct. If you were going to Manila from KUL on a separate booking, you merely need to show evidence of the connection when you go through T5. Something that happens daily. They got that piece of advice wrong. I use Manila as an example as that is clear cut. And you don't pass through KUL passports anyway if flying on from the main terminal.
Feb 7, 2018, 5:46 am
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So I think you should get on to the Malaysian high commission for some guidance.
On the basis most countries don't need a visa to transit in KL, I would have thought the visa regs (i.e. 6 months left on your passport) would be irrelevant.
On the basis most countries don't need a visa to transit in KL, I would have thought the visa regs (i.e. 6 months left on your passport) would be irrelevant.
Feb 7, 2018, 5:53 am
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Update. Having spoken to GGL the issue is more about the flight to KUL. I have been advised that the 6 month validity will prevent boarding the flight to KUL. Their official advice for Thailand is passport validity beyond length of stay only. I tried to suggest if there were any documents I could show to prove in transit only but was rebuffed
I wouldn't go back to the GGL team, I'd just have a copy of your MH tickets and timatic if you're feeling fancy and turn up at T5 with confidence.
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Feb 7, 2018, 5:53 am
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Is your daughter old enough to travel on her own, on the flight you're on or a direct one to Phuket? I guess that getting her there one way or another gives you a bit of time to sort out the return leg, and you may be able to get the GGL to save her return ticket under the circumstances.
Feb 7, 2018, 6:00 am
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About 2 weeks ago I renewed my passport online. Now you can have a friend take the photo and upload it.
Timeline: 23rd Jan - Apply online. 25th Jan - post off old passport (special delivery). 30th Jan - receive new passport. 1st Feb - receive old, cancelled passport. I was without passport for a total of 6 days.
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Timeline: 23rd Jan - Apply online. 25th Jan - post off old passport (special delivery). 30th Jan - receive new passport. 1st Feb - receive old, cancelled passport. I was without passport for a total of 6 days.
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Feb 7, 2018, 6:24 am
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Of course, getting the OK to depart T5 to KUL is one thing (and a second GGL agent was much more positive about that, while doing some more digging for me)........the issue will be the return flight, getting an MH flight to KUL to transfer onto a separately ticketed flight to the UK, even if just transiting airside in KUL. I am not sure how that conversation would go at the Thai airport
Feb 7, 2018, 8:06 am
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seconded, even on separate tickets if she can prove at T5 that she has a connection from KUL to somewhere where her passport is accepted, eg Thailand, she will be fine. Of course HBO only.
Feb 7, 2018, 9:02 am
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I have two passports because I'm a frequent traveler and I need to stick one in every now and then for VISAs
Feb 7, 2018, 9:06 am
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TIMATIC says that for a UK passport, it has to be valid for 1 month after arrival in Thailand.
Also the Thai Embassy website makes no reference of a 6 month validity requirement except for some counties in the Middle East
So I think you're OK - will just need to argue the toss with MH in KL.
(Sorry, misread that - the 6 month requirement is for Malaysia). How about calling the Malaysian High Commission?
Also the Thai Embassy website makes no reference of a 6 month validity requirement except for some counties in the Middle East
So I think you're OK - will just need to argue the toss with MH in KL.
(Sorry, misread that - the 6 month requirement is for Malaysia). How about calling the Malaysian High Commission?