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Hi all, We’re a British family of four (two adults and two children, aged 12 and 6) and we’ve been living in Singapore for the past three years. We’ve just received our PR IPA, which is great news for us, but we’ve run into a bit of a dilemma regarding our elder son. He’s turning 13 soon and has ma...

Have you tried to indicate that you are of Chinese descent in your previous applications? I recall there was a member here @gold.spot, who is a former Indian citizen but of Chinese ethnicity. If I'm not wrong, they didn't really ask him for any proof. They didn't ask me for 'proof' but my surname i...

I don't think it's any indication. When PR is approved, a new singpass is issued with the new IC number. Most of the old transactions do not get migrated to the new singpass.

^^^i second that... I used the IPA letter date.

If i understand it correctly, the HR person can apply for a 90 day SVP upon EP cancellation. So you have to have a word with the appropriate person from your HR. If they disagree and insist only on 30 days, there is still scope for you to extend your SVP. That said, easiest is to get it done from th...

Hmm. I would say there is a bit of toxicity which discourages information sharing.

Why don't you put in the income tax documents if the country he was working in then? Or is that also unavailable?

In any case, you already have an answer, write to ICA officially. End of story.

Yes, it doesn't.

So do you intend to include your 3 month old?

Also, how can this be common practice - not everyone has a baby boy at the time of a PR application, and even so, most would include a newborn to their PR application by submitting additional documents.

Basing a response on other people's inputs, in your case what i gather is you can consider getting your child into a local school, which is extremely hard by itself because your child is a foreigner. Your job, if it is an in-demand industry, helps. If you haven't to contribute that nobody else can, ...

Nope I'm saying if countries want to impose a max per country that's fine. Your question is vague because "Indian" is both a race and nationality. US puts a limit of 7% from any country IINM and I'm fine with that. Singapore selects Chinese primarily on their race, not nationality. Even Israel does...

Nice, congrats...

All that you need to submit will be written on the IPA letter. You will be unlucky only if you don't follow instructions of the letter. There will be no new surprise documentation to submit during your appointment. This means, if asked for birth cert in English or with a certified English translatio...

Your mind is set, just go ahead and apply. You won't hit the lottery if you don't buy the ticket. Seems like it took 7 months of being outside Singapore to realise how valuable Singapore was to you. If you're looking for reassurance, you probably will not get it here. If I go one step further, I in...