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LahAndBehold wrote: ↑

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 1:14 pm

Late to this thread, but l'm in a similar situation as you. I noticed you posted this back in 2023 and was wondering if you ever managed to get the MOE waiver?

Let you know soon.

LTVP+ is only for those married for at least 3 years, mal. OP didn’t state how long they’ve been married for. Usually ICA only gives 1 year for the first application because they need to see if the couple/applicant is stable or serious enough to be in SG long term. Then they can give longer validit...

Not really a viable option though, because I’m not going to be working back in the UK so having to return home is a last resort.

My firm are quite likely to move me around different regions, though. I’m not sure if that’s any use as a justification however because I can’t guarantee it.

I’d like to send him to Tanglin. I don’t want to just put him in whichever school will take him, for the same reasons that I don’t want him to go to local school. I want to give him the best education I possibly can; balanced against a childhood that isn’t weighted with unreasonable (to me) expectat...

I moved back with my wife (citizen). I applied for PR from abroad and the LTVP on arrival. It took about 3 weeks from memory. Was your wife already working? Is it possible to apply LTVP before the SC starts work in Singapore? She was in the UK with me. She had been made redundant (retrenched) by ou...

Hello folks, I occasionally browse the boards but I confess that I haven’t been the most active since I got my PR. To which I am eternally grateful to you all for the help. In a somewhat ironic situation though: * I am a British National. My wife is a SC. * Our son was born in Singapore, therefore h...

Haven’t checked in for a while. I got my PR status officially at the end of May. Was exempted from NS (I guess that’s standard? - although I was half hoping they’d ask me to serve it. I feel like it would be fairer on my son). The last hurdle, and it isn’t really a hurdle, is waiting for my employme...

Not withstanding anything else, you can expect to wait 12 months or more before you hear anything. It isn’t a particularly fast moving process unfortunately.

IPA letter received 14th April

My PLOC was emailed and it still has the residential address on it. (It was only a few months ago).

Have a Dyson V11. It’s perfectly good - but we’ve got our eyes on a xiaomi robo vacuum just because why not?

What’s the electronic mop? That sounds very useful.

SundayMorningStaple - yes my husband had had alot of difficulties securing a job as the EP/SP quota limitations especially after Covid. He was running his own business in Australia which he can't do as a DP now adays. so we are hoping if we get PR this will remove the hurdle for him to find local e...

I’ve been married for over 5 years and my LTVP was issued with 1 year validity. I enquired as to why it wasn’t a LTVP+ and they said, “ We noted on the content of your email and noted that you have been married for more than 3 years and has 1 Singaporean child. We wish to reiterate that all LTVP app...

It takes up to 6 months and the wait time is different for everyone.

That’s interesting! I’m pretty sure I couldn’t find a way around it back when I applied - as I already had a PR application submitted whilst overseas but I couldn’t find a way around the disembarkation number for LTVP. As for the OP: It is definitely possible, because it happened for us - except my ...