Finally braved the horrors of immigration to renew my passport which had expired months ago. I remembered when we got up at the crack of dawn to be one of the first in the queue at the old immigration branch at Terminal 3 Subang - it was quite an experience and obviously not something I would want to repeat. So after hearing from people about the newly opened (not really, but to me it was) branch which had relocated from Terminal 3, I trooped off optimistically on a lovely Monday morning at 11 am to Kelana Jaya with my daughter in tow.
After parking my car in basement 3, we walked to the office and much to my surprise, my documents were checked swiftly by the person manning the counter by the door who gave me the queue number and paper-clipped everything together. After a one minute wait, my number was called and the officer at the counter processed my application in no time at all. I paid my fee at another counter a few minutes later and in about 10 minutes after we walked in the door, I was seated and waiting for my passport to be ready. Now this took a while (about an hour) and what was interesting to note was that the people there were more efficient than the machine as all applications were dealt with swiftly and easily. What held us all back was the fact that the passports took more time to be printed.
All in, we were about 75 minutes at the immigration office - fairly painless, especially since I bumped into an old friend from Taiping. A good outing today which ended with a quick lunch at 1Utama - New York Deli - where daughter had pasta and I had the Latino chicken chop. We were starving, as it was 2 pm by the time we sat down for lunch. Darn LDP traffic!
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