QR code clearance trial for Malaysian travellers at Johor checkpoints to start on June 1

JOHOR BAHRU – A trial run for the QR code immigration clearance system at the two Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complexes in Johor will start on June 1, says Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof.

He said the proof of concept will run for three months and involve only Malaysian travellers.

“We will start with motorcycles and buses first before expanding it to other vehicles,” he said at a press conference after chairing a special inter-agency meeting on the Johor Causeway and Second-Link congestion issue at Bangunan Sultan Iskandar (BSI) CIQ on May 27.

“This is expected to reduce waiting time for immigration clearance by about 50 per cent at both the BSI and the Sultan Abu Bakar Complex.”

Also present at the meeting were Malaysian Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail and Johor Menteri Besar Onn Hafiz Ghazi.

Earlier, Datuk Seri Fadillah visited the BSI CIQ, one of the busiest checkpoints in the world.

In a post on Facebook, he said he also spent some time checking the auto gate facility, immigration counters, Customs scanners, the MBike automated immigration clearance system for motorcyclists, and bus lanes.

It was previously reported

that the QR code immigration clearance system would be implemented by the middle of June.

In March, Singapore rolled out an initiative allowing motorists arriving at and departing from its Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints

to use QR codes

instead of passports for immigration clearance.

Travellers must generate a QR code via a mobile app before arriving at the immigration counters.

At the signing of the memorandum of understanding

for the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone on Jan 11,

both Malaysia and Singapore agreed to explore initiatives to make connectivity as seamless as possible.

The initiatives included the adoption of a QR code system on both sides to speed up immigration clearance. THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK