From next Tuesday (Mar 19), Malaysians travelling to Singapore over land through the Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints will be able to clear immigration with just a QR code generated by MyICA, the Singaporean Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s (ICA) mobile app.
Travellers will need to create a profile within the app to generate a QR code before reaching one of the checkpoints.
MyICA is available both on the iOS app store and on the Google Play store.
To generate the QR code, users will need to input their passport details in the app, with Singapore residents able to automatically do so using Singpass.
Malaysians on the other hand will need to scan the machine-readable zone of their passport biodata page to populate their passport information and generate the QR code.
Once at a checkpoint, users can then self-scan the QR code to gain entry into the country in lieu of presenting their passport to an ICA officer at the car counter.
Each QR code can be used for individual travellers or with up to a total of 10 travellers in a group and will be valid for a year after generation or upon the passport's (earliest for group codes) expiry date, whichever first.
It is worth noting that entry via QR code is only available to those who have previously visited the country.
First-timers or those who have since gotten a new passport will need to go through the standard immigration procedure with a physical passport.
Singapore's ICA previously said that over 1.8 million travellers crossed the Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints between March 7 to 10, 2024.
