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title: "M’sian Woman Unable To Board Flight After 3yo Child Scribbles On Her Passport"
url: https://weirdkaya.com/scribbled-passport-missed-flight/
date: 2026-06-08
modified: 2026-06-08
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author: "Sarah Yeoh"
description: "Before one goes on a trip overseas, bringing their passport along is the most important document to have on hand. For one woman, her passport proved to be her plan's..."
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# M’sian Woman Unable To Board Flight After 3yo Child Scribbles On Her Passport

## TL: DR

- **Viral Threads Claim:** A Malaysian woman shares on Threads that her 3-year-old child draws a bird and lines on her passport with a blue ballpoint pen before her Saturday (June 6) flight.
- **Immigration Department Ruling:** The Immigration Department in Putrajaya declares the passport damaged, preventing the woman from boarding her scheduled night flight.
- **Flight Rescheduling Cost:** Waiting until Monday for a new passport forces the woman to reschedule her flight for an additional RM620 while netizens debate the incident.

##### Before one goes on a trip overseas, bringing their passport along is the most important document to have on hand.

For one woman, her passport proved to be her plan's undoing after her young child decided to turn it into his personal scrapbook.

## Left drawings on passport

In a viral [Threads post](https://www.threads.com/@empatdua.ebonylane/post/DZONiHIE2PI?xmt=AQG0xS1vSQhneyz9BBfDvh7LXSWJAUZiEmH7t_-hj5WCdps), the woman wrote that she was on the verge of tears upon seeing the state of her passport before boarding a flight on Saturday (June 6).

A photo attached in the post showed that her passport had a drawing of what appeared to be a bird drawn on one page, while the adjacent page had several lines drawn over it with a blue ballpoint pen.

![Scribbled passport (1)](https://cdn.weirdkaya.com/media/Scribbled-passport-1-1.jpg)Photo via [Threads](https://www.threads.com/@empatdua.ebonylane/post/DZONiHIE2PI?xmt=AQG0xS1vSQhneyz9BBfDvh7LXSWJAUZiEmH7t_-hj5WCdps)

“My heart wants to cry. My flight is tonight, and while I was packing, the little one was busy scribbling all over my passport,” she lamented.

## Passport declared damaged

Left with no recourse, the OP headed to the Immigration Department in Putrajaya and was told that her passport was deemed as damaged.

This meant that she couldn't board her flight which was scheduled to take off that night.

To make matters worse, she had to wait till Monday to have her new passport done as there were no officers on duty on the weekend.

![ wk jabatan imigresen malaysia passport ( ) ](https://cdn.weirdkaya.com/media/202605-wk-jabatan-imigresen-malaysia-passport-1-2346.jpg)Photo by WeirdKaya

As such, the OP was forced to reschedule her flight to Monday, which cost her an additional RM620.

Despite the hassle, the OP said that she had made peace with her situation and wasn't angry with her three-year-old child.

## Reactions

Although the OP had already put the matter behind her, there were a handful of netizens who called her out for being careless with her passport.

![M](https://cdn.weirdkaya.com/media/Scribbled-passport-netizen-comment-1.jpg)Screenshot via [Threads](https://www.threads.com/@empatdua.ebonylane/post/DZONiHIE2PI?xmt=AQG0xS1vSQhneyz9BBfDvh7LXSWJAUZiEmH7t_-hj5WCdps)

Some chose to inject some humour, with one jokingly suggesting that the OP frame the damaged passport and ask for compensation from her child when he is older.

![M](https://cdn.weirdkaya.com/media/Scribbled-passport-netizen-comment-2.jpg)Screenshot via [Threads](https://www.threads.com/@empatdua.ebonylane/post/DZONiHIE2PI?xmt=AQG0xS1vSQhneyz9BBfDvh7LXSWJAUZiEmH7t_-hj5WCdps)

*PSA: Always ensure your passport is kept in a safe place and far away from the reach of young children!*

**READ [ALSO](https://weirdkaya.com/msians-may-soon-be-able-to-get-a-10-year-passport-for-rm350-heres-what-we-know-so-far/):**

https://weirdkaya.com/msians-may-soon-be-able-to-get-a-10-year-passport-for-rm350-heres-what-we-know-so-far/

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