Visit Putrajaya Immigration for the Permit Masuk certificate
and passport stamp (February 2025)
Both the applicant and spouse must go to Putrajaya Immigration within 30 days after getting the LTSVP shortened. No appointment is required as Putrajaya is walk-in only.
The following documents were needed:
- Permit Masuk approval letter (plus copy)
- 1 Passport photo (blue background)
- Statutory Declaration that marriage is still valid. We used the Commissioner for Oaths at Putrajaya at Level 2 (RM10). Our photos had a white background, but it may be better to use blue ones to be on the safe side.
- Applicant's passport (plus copy of bio page)
- Shortened LTSVP (plus copy)
- Malaysian spouse IC (plus copy of both sides)
- Marriage certificate (plus copy)
These are the steps taken:
- We went to Permit Masuk office at Level 1 (Ground Floor). We arrived at 715am and joined the queue outside the office. There were about 20 people ahead of us at this time.
- The doors opened at 8am and we took a number which was called at 840am.
- We gave the officer our documents and were given a green colour payment form to fill in and told to go to Level 3 to pay. We went directly to payment counters 12 and 13 (there was no need to join the queue) and made the RM120 payment.
- We then returned to the Permit Masuk counter and gave the form and receipt to the same officer. We had completed all of this before 9am.
- We were asked to return at 230pm for collection. An officer called us at 1245pm to say we could come now to collect, but we were at lunch and would not have made it back in time before the office closed at 1pm.
- We went back around 2pm and my name was called by an officer at the collection counter. We signed and put our thumb prints and were then given the Permit Masuk certificate (Im.5) and my passport with Permanent Resident stamp.
The officer said I must keep the Permit Masuk certificate safely, as a replacement will not be issued, and that I must transfer the stamp when I replace my passport (this is also stated on the Permit Masuk stamp).
Here is an example of a Permit Masuk certificate (Im.5) downloaded from the internet. The certificate is A5 size and the right hand side of the certificate (not shown here) has the applicant's personal details. The Permit Masuk certificate has a 6 month validity date, which is the period in which the applicant must enter Malaysia after the permit is granted. As PR applicants on the spouse route are already in Malaysia, this 6 month validity is not relevant, so the certificate is stamped with 'JOURNEY PERFORMED':
Here is an example of the PR and Permit Masuk passport stamps downloaded from the internet. The PR stamp says 'NOTIFICATION OF RESIDENT'S PERMIT' and states that the holder is 'a Permanent Resident of Malaysia':
After this stage my online status was updated to:
Next steps:
We had just enough time to visit Putrajaya JPN later the same day to apply for the Red IC (MyPR). Before we went to JPN, we made photocopies of both the Permit Masuk certificate (both sides) and passport stamp at the shop next to the Permit Masuk office.
See the next post for details of how I applied for the Red IC (MyPR) at JPN.