http://mocsarawak.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/beware-of-johore-immigration/
Be careful. Don't end up paying thousands of dollars and jailed for couple of days!
Immigration people can be unpredictable at times. Most of the time as you drive in to get your passport stamped, they will insert a couple of white cards (Entry Card) into your passport without you asking, expecting you to visit their country again.
There are times when they say "habis" - just like that. Their job is not to check to ensure that they have sufficient cards with them ! At the exit booth, they just tell you to go back to the entry booth to get your white cards.
Anyway you need to understand the boredom of the job - whole day just flip passports and then stamp with the wooden chop that they have used since colonial times. I think they purposely stamp loudly so that you can hear that your passport has been stamped (In this modern world, you still need to use a lot of energy just to stamp on the poor passport. I think they use the double-finger scanning just to have a little but of fun! Now these toys are left lying at the country gathering dust.)
As they take their time to stamp the passports, I close my eyes and count the number of "chomp, chomp, chomp" - two chomps for 1 passport and 4 chomps for 2 passports.
"Selamat pagi" and "terima kasih" to them and you are on your way. To those who have invested their dream in Iskandar, it is just a little inconvenience to tolerate - biasa lah! They show them more respect than to our own Men-in-Blue.
You try to
quai lan with them, they may make you do nude squat. According to their ICQ Officer, it is legal as they have their own SOP.
By the way, during peak hours along the motor-cycle lane, the Malaysian ICQ officers just stand by and you need to just look like a Malaysian (you know one when you see one) and wave your passport to them. They let you pass; they simply can't check the thousands of Malaysians going home after a hard day's work in Singapore. Now you understand how Mat Selamat got to Johor!
After all that has been said, Malaysia is still a "Truly Asia" country.