Malaysia will further ease its border measures by eliminating the Traveller Card requirement for foreigners from Monday, 1 August 2022.
The Traveller Card requirement was previously scrapped for Malaysian citizens on 4 July 2022, and with pre-departure and on-arrival testing not required for fully vaccinated individuals, travel effectively returns to pre-COVID conditions.
Traveller Card requirement to be scrapped
Currently, foreign travellers to Malaysia are required to download the MySejahtera app (Android | iOS) and compete the in-app Traveller Card. This requires information like passport details, purpose of travel, and flight/accommodation details. The completed Traveller Card needs to be shown during check-in, and possibly on arrival.
From 1 August 2022, the Traveller Card will no longer be required. Travellers need only upload their vaccination certificate (if fully vaccinated) or pre-departure test result (if unvaccinated or partially vaccinated) to the MySejahtera app.
On-arrival tests and quarantine still apply to unvaccinated or partially vaccinated travellers, as summarised below.
| โ๏ธ Travel to Malaysia (From 1 Aug 2022) |
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| Fully Vax. |
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| Unvax. or Partially Vax.* |
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| *Children aged 17 and under are exempt from vaccination and testing requirements |
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| MST Checklist |
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All travellers will be thermal screened on arrival, and subject to further tests if found to be unwell.
Returning to Singapore
Thanks to the Vaccinated Travel Framework which took effect from 1 April 2022, the only requirement for fully vaccinated travellers to Singapore is to complete the SG Arrival Card.
This applies to all travellers regardless of nationality, unless they are Singapore Citizens, Permanent Residents or LTP holders entering from the land border with Malaysia.
| โ๏ธ Vaccinated Travel Framework |
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| Fully Vax. & Unvax. Aged 12 and Below | |
| *Children aged 2 or under in the current calendar year are exempt | |
Unvaccinated or partially vaccinated travellers aged 13 and over will face stricter entry requirements, as summarised below.
| โ๏ธ Vaccinated Travel Framework |
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| Unvax. (Aged 13 and above) |
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| *Children aged 2 or under in the current calendar year are exempt | |
Conclusion
Malaysia will do away with the Traveller Card requirement completely from 1 August 2022, further reducing the administrative burden for travellers.
For the latest COVID-19 travel advisories and restrictions, refer to the Singapore Airlines website, or IATA’s TIMATIC.
Love your blog and I’ve been following you for years!
But please stop writing things like this:
‘travel effectively returns to pre-COVID conditions.’
You’ve written this in many blog posts recently.
This is simply untrue.
As long as there is still discrimination against unvaccinated travelers and there are ANY restrictions still in place (like mandatory mask wearing on the plane or in other locations or forced quarantine), we are still very far away from pre-Covid normality.
Let’s call a spade a spade:
This is an improvement but ALL restrictions must go away before we can speak of ‘normality’ again.
He’s not wrong. Just have a bottle of water within arm’s reach and no sane FA is going to tell you to keep your mask on.
Also who cares about the unvaccinated in 2022 LEWL
Biggest annoyance of a vaccination requirement is that some airlines still inhibit online check-in boarding pass issuance when vaccination status has to be verified at the counter. Makes it hard to arrive very early or very late at a non-hub airport when travelling without checked baggage.
At least SQ allows online verification now.
Whatโs the difference between using the MySj app to scan the vaccine cert and using the mysafetravel website to verify vaccine status?
Which is easier to use and show?
They won’t actually check your My SJ app at JB customs