'I’m About to Cry': Child Scribbles on Mother’s Passport, Stopping Her From Boarding Flight

A mother from Malaysia discovered just hours before a work trip abroad that her young son had drawn a dinosaur on her passport. She contacted the immigration office, where she was told the passport was damaged and no longer valid, forcing her to postpone the flight by several days at a cost of 114 pounds.

The story was reported by Ilan Arnon on mako, published on 11.06.26 at 12:07, with a screenshot photo.

The mother from Malaysia was forced to cancel her work flight abroad after discovering that her young son had drawn a dinosaur and scribbles on two pages of her passport just hours before takeoff. She shared the story on social media along with photos of the doodles and wrote, "I hate dinosaurs!"

"I feel like crying. My flight is tonight," the mother wrote. "I was busy packing, and my little one was busy scribbling on my passport without me noticing."

The mother discovered the scribbling before leaving home. She immediately went to the local immigration office, where she was told the passport was indeed damaged and not valid for the flight, and since it was the weekend, she could not be issued a replacement passport before Monday. Later, the mother managed to change her Qatar Airways ticket to Monday night, at a cost of 114 pounds.

"For those asking, my child is smiling with absolutely no sense of guilt," she wrote.

This is not the first case in which passport problems have disrupted last-minute travel. Last August, a couple left their 10-year-old son behind at Barcelona airport after discovering that his passport had expired. The parents arranged for a relative to pick up the child and boarded the flight without him. Airport staff noticed the boy was alone and called the police.

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