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From Oct 1, all foreign-registered vehicles entering Johor from Singapore must have a Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP), or receive a warning. Video journalist Matilda Aquila Chia crossed the border to check out the process.

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00:00So it's 7.45 a.m. and a few of us here at Straits Times are going into Johor Bahru today
00:05But it's also the first day that we need a vehicle entry permit to do so. So let's see how it goes
00:13Say hi guys!
00:20All foreign registered vehicles have to have a VEP to enter Malaysia
00:23But here's the thing because we're in a rental car, we don't actually need one
00:27What we have here today is the VEP registration confirmation slip
00:30And that's enough to get us through for today because we're in a non-private vehicle
00:39Right now we're on the causeway heading towards JB checkpoint and the traffic has been relatively smooth
00:50So actually that was really smooth all it took was about five minutes
00:53We drove up to the immigration counter and the immigration officer checked our passports and asked us for our VEP
00:58After which we flashed him our VEP application confirmation slip and he didn't really even look at it up close
01:05Afterwards we were directed to speak to another officer on the intercom who just checked if we were Malaysian or Singaporean registered car
01:10And if we had paid our vote charge and that was that
01:14So it's roughly 9.30am right now and we are through
01:17But as the VEP implementation has not been fully rolled out
01:19Private car owners can still enter Malaysia without a VEP tag
01:23But you may get a warning or reminder
01:25But once the VEP implementation has been fully rolled out
01:28You will not be able to enter or leave Malaysia without a VEP tag
01:31You may be fined RM2,000 or jailed for up to six months so go get the VEP tag soon

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