MALAYSIAN DRIVING LICENCE CONVERSION
If you are planning to come to Qatar and want to drive without going through driving school classes and test at traffic department in Qatar, then follow the following steps:
1. Take your Malaysian driving licence and get it translated into Arabic and English at Malaysian National Institute of Translation, Ministry of Education, Section 10, Wangsa Maju, 53300 Kuala Lumpur.
2. Then take these papers to Consular Section, Wisma Putra, Putrajaya and get them chopped there.
3. Thereafter take the same to the Embassy of Qatar,
Ampang Hilir(Parallel to Jalan Ampang), Behind Great Eastern Mall and get it endorsed.
4. Go to any approved clinic/driving school with your passport photo in Doha duly authorised to carry out drivers eye test for trafiic department.
5. Take a NOC from your employers(sponsor) in arabic addressed to traffic department that you want to apply for driving licence.
6. take copy of qatar ID with original also and one passport size photo(blue background)
7. Meet Asst Manager or Manager on 1st Floor at Traffic Department HQ, Madina Khaliffa, Doha.
8. Driving licence is yours all malaysians.
Yes Indianbear74, i successfully converted my international (Malaysian Licence) to Qatar driving licence. Just had to do eye test and other procedure done by my PRO.
hi now can covert license here ( saudi license or kuwait License)
Hi Tiru - did you manage to convert your license? It is difficult to do the conversion now. I tried but have failed so far. I even spoke to the captain but you have to take an Arabic speaker with you or at least someone from your HR. I am trying to locate a PRO who will be able to help me as this seems to be the only way now. I have not been able to secure a PRO for now.
New in Doha... I hope i still can do the conversion. ???!!
Malaysian Driving license is no more convertible in Qatar
Hi everybody,
I am not a malaysian citizen but I have malaysian driving licence. Can I go for the same procedure?
Regards,
Zubair
Hai vastporcelinas! any update from Qatar embassy on the license conversion issue? My wife is coming here in couple of month, if this process still works; I am planning to go for it.
Please advice
but what if i already have an international driving license from JPJ malaysia?? does qatar accept that?
srma - ooopsed?
Iam arabic man live in Qatar and looking for malaysain wife if any body intrest my mail is [email protected]
vastpor*** why dont u ask the qatar embassy once u back home..might them will asist u back home here..
is this still valid as of may 2011? I'm leaving to kl next week and if so, i would rather get the paperwork done there and do it in this direction..
Thanks in advance!
You are lucky or may be the world is wrong ,this favor is not given to Arabs (brothers).
went there just now. 1st i went to the driving license building.. they told me if singapore then can be converted. if malaysian "no change" she said. then she told me to see the mgr at the admin building but he was not around. so they ask me to come again tomorrow. am i seeing the right person here? when i ask to see the assistant mgr they insist for me to come again tomorrow morning. anybody can guide me here plsss..
got mine the hard way here. just need to confirm again for other "better luck" Malaysians ...
elxxxv,
i asked my fren to do the translation and couried my M'sian licence and IC... u really have to trust ur fren to do that.
Good luck okehhh
either you do it before u come to doha, or send it back, and ask someone u trust to take care of it...
for me, i send it to my friend, and ask him to help.
got mine 1 week b4 rinhanekoma.
thanks malinis...
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"An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
did you do the translation and stamping in Malaysia before you came? or did you sent the license back and had somebody do the running for you?
Hi malinis,
thanks to your process! i got it on Tuesday! yippie...thank you to u Malinis.. :)
Better than going to a driving school and spending a lot of mullah and failing the test many times.Chop from Qatar Embassy in KL is the key to...........
mood also....
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"An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
One question, is it for sure all Malaysian can convert or it is still depends on the mood of the Manager/ Assistant Manager at the Traffic Department?
Thanks!
Okay, So maybe I'll send my license back to malaysia and got it translated there with all the stamps and everything..Thank you Begum
I am not sure. Some of my friends who tried from here failed. I think the Qatar Embassy Stamp is important. Just a guess
How about if I do the translations here in the Malaysian Embassy? Will it work? I got all the paperwork done )eye test, NOC letter) except the translations (which I know I can do it in the embassy)
Thank you
I got mine converted yesterday. Follow exactly like what is written by malinis. Thanks malinis. You saved me the hassle of going to classes and test.
By the way: No wasta.. only a arabic speaking friend to help to inquire at the counter. Thanks to my friend too.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
for those who didnt manage to do this before they came, holders of msian driving license could go for the test directly in doha.
Malinis,
Thanks for this piece of advise. I am certainly going to give it a go seeing that I have failed twice and am going back to Malaysia for holidays. just a couple of questions which I hope you can advise :-
1. When you say convert the license to arabic & english, do they actually reproduce your license in those languages or is just reproduced on a piece of paper?
2. Do you have a particular asst manager or manager that you met at the traffic department you can refer to? Also did it go smoothly or was there a lot of convincing to do?
Thanks,
Aziz
maybe Malinis just got a special favor or an influential wasta!
"dgoodrebel will always be the rebellious good one"
Yes it has been done in September 2008.
hi malinis, can u tell me that is this procedure still valid here as i really find it hard to go through all the hassle here.
did u just do it recently ?
thanks~
Now you tell me... I presume your info is current since you just posted it. I thought we could convert easily before 2005 or 2006 but not anymore. I thought the new regulations were that we had to take lessons and test because we're driving on the opposite side of the road. Malaysia is right hand drive, here left hand drive. But the advantage is that those with a Malaysian driving licence can take the minimum short course of 7 days (including theory on the 1st day). For UAE or USA, no problem, I was told - driving on the same side.
I got my driving licence the hard way, with a particular PO... And had to wait till after Ramadhan too. Sigh!
But thanks for the info. Groundwork must be done in Malaysia before coming, huh?
/Juan, how is the original post great news for Filipinos?
this is a great news to all the filipinos,,,,thanks for the information...
This has been done successfully.
have u tried it before???
or just got info from frens of frens of frens neighbour??
any malaysian tried it???
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Nothing really specified by traffic dept, better to keep it atleast valid for a year plus.All the best.
May I know how many years of validity that I need to have in order for me to convert my license to a Qatari driving license?