Putrajaya Passport Office - Remember this the next time you want to renew your passport..

Dear earthlings,

Among the long list of tasks that we have to do before we can actually jet off to the UK is to renew our passports..There's no choice there..If we don't renew, then we can't proceed with the VISA application..trying to get a day off for hubs is very difficult that is why we chose to renew our passports on a weekend...and since there is actually a place in Precint 15 that is actually open on weekends for passport renewal purposes, therefore, we thought that we were very lucky..I mean, we didn't have to travel too far..

The passport office in Presint 15 Putrajaya opens from 8am till 1 pm on weekends..but be careful, if the Friday is a public holiday, then there's a high chance that the passport office won't be open during that particular weekend..we did experience this by the way...

Anyhoos, we wanted to be there early, to beat the crowd..so we arrived at the passport office at about 7.45am and guess what? Other people beat us to it..there was already a loooooong queue lining up to get the number...So much for beating the crowd eh?Hubs was so disappointed he even suggested to come the next day to which I disagreed...he relented in the end so we just waited in the queue..

Finally, we got our number...76 and 77...can you imagine? We came at 745am and we got that kind of number...the other thing you need to beware of is that they don't give out too many numbers..If I was not mistaken, they only gave out until number 104...I wonder who was the 105th person...I'm just glad it wasn't me...There were also people coming in at about 10am and 11 am asking whether they could have a number to renew their passports but, no more numbers were given out that day...Some even came all the way from Ampang..I pity them..

There's not much to do but wait..Our numbers were called approximately at 11-ish...then our number was called again to make payment at the payment counter (RM300 for 5 years renewal)...and after that we waited for about an hour to collect our passport...

If some of you are wondering whether you could renew your passport even though the expiry date of your passport is still ages to go, the answer is you can. However, if you choose to renew for 5 years, what they will do is, they will add 5 year + 6 months from the date that you applied... They will not add an additional 5 years to your current expiry date...even the girl at counter questioned me whether I really wanted to renew my passport to which I adamantly said yes..

Thank goodness we finally received our spanking new passport...It's such a huge relief that we got that out of the way...

Yours truly,
Adventure Addict