diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 239ce3f108..09f8e58075 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 - **decompress:** Use PS's default 'Expand-Archive()' ([#5185](https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/issues/5185))
 - **hash:** Fix SourceForge's hash extraction ([#5189](https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/issues/5189))
 - **decompress:** Trim ending '/' ([#5195](https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/issues/5195))
+- **scoop-import:** Add correct architecture argument ([#5210](https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/issues/5210))
 
 ### Code Refactoring
 
diff --git a/lib/getopt.ps1 b/lib/getopt.ps1
index ce12aae9f5..74ffae7c52 100644
--- a/lib/getopt.ps1
+++ b/lib/getopt.ps1
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ function getopt($argv, $shortopts, $longopts) {
     }
 
     # ensure these are arrays
-    $argv = @($argv)
+    $argv = @($argv -split ' ')
     $longopts = @($longopts)
 
     for ($i = 0; $i -lt $argv.Length; $i++) {
diff --git a/libexec/scoop-import.ps1 b/libexec/scoop-import.ps1
index 7e3ec1c52c..1221e127bf 100644
--- a/libexec/scoop-import.ps1
+++ b/libexec/scoop-import.ps1
@@ -40,12 +40,14 @@ foreach ($item in $import.apps) {
     } else {
         ''
     }
-    $arch = if ('64bit' -in $info) {
+    $arch = if ('64bit' -in $info -and '64bit' -ne $def_arch) {
         ' --arch 64bit'
-    } elseif ('32bit' -in $info) {
+    } elseif ('32bit' -in $info -and '32bit' -ne $def_arch) {
         ' --arch 32bit'
-    } else {
+    } elseif ('arm64' -in $info -and 'arm64' -ne $def_arch) {
         ' --arch arm64'
+    } else {
+        ''
     }
 
     $app = if ($item.Source -in $bucket_names) {