As my international passport is expiring in October, about 10 days ago, while passing through the immigration at Johor Bahru, I was instructed to see the officer. The officer told me that the passport need to be renewed six months before expiry.
Yesterday I went to Sebarang Jaya to get my international passport renewed, waited around three hours for the queue to run from 1154 till 1259. Lesson learned, be there as early as possible 7:30am or 8:00am, phototaking service is available there for ten ringgits. Also it is possible to renew over internet and upload the photo, and it is possible to take your own photo for better quality, there is a kiosk there too, you only have to be there to collect the passport. I am not sure whether submission via Internet would bypass the queue and how long it would take so I rather use the conventional method.
After submitting the form, two photos, IC and old passport, and payment, there was a time for collection after one hour. However, the passport was released only after around 4:30pm.
I was not aware of transferring of Re-entry permit could be done over Internet too. One just need to log in to the Immigration portal of Singapore with SingPass and have the new passport number submitted and the re-entry permit would be available for printing.
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