Passport

Your Malaysian passport needs to be valid for six more months in order to travel out of the country. I thought everybody knew that. The requirement is printed inside the back cover of the passport, and I remember reading about it several times elsewhere before too, perhaps on airline booking invoices.

So I was surprised when a friend was denied from boarding a flight recently because she had less than six months left on her passport. Maybe it was an oversight on her part.

For that matter, the are several other details printed at the back of the passport, one of which is you cannot send your passport by mail from one place to another. After all, your passport is a form of personal identification just like your national identity card. I assume everybody knows about that too.