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Pink, you seem to have a chip on your shoulder and don’t like to hear any opinions unless they match your own (sounds like a certain section of the electorate back in my home country). Me, the quintessential expat? Me, living in an expat bubble? Me, delusional about school? Me, high and mighty? If ...

Pink, I don’t have any strong disagreements with what you are saying. There is always some truth in any generalization, but there are often plenty of exceptions too. My daughter went P1-P6 at St. Margaret’s, and her cousins did the same at ACS... there are clear differences, not in the curriculum o...

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Thu, 03 Dec 2020 3:31 pm

Pinkpanther, is your reply above in the wrong thread?

I thought 2019 is recent enough, but now see this is a question for 2020.
I can't seem to be able to find a way to delete messages.

Phase 3 in P1 registration represents the least desired spots in local schools, after everyone else has had their pick. Despite that, there still aren’t nearly enough “unwanted spots” left over for non-SC, non-PR population here who are tax paying residents of Singapore (some people still seem to t...

I have asked this question before but I will ask again - how does the ICA quantify/prove integration of an applicant? I for one have done my whole sec sch, jc, uni locally (funnily enough, i am a dragon baby and no schools had any spots to even consider taking me in. luckily, one neighborhood schoo...

I believe having kids in local school is not really a criteria nowadays since local school places are tough to get. In P1, it is a lottery for foreigners with a small chance of being accepted. In P2-P5, it is even worse with a reported 5% chance of acceptance (based on AEIS results). Not true. Ther...

Actually, on 2nd thoughts. Criteria’s may have been tightened further. It’s anyone’s guess. Pinkpanther got approved pre election. https://forum.singaporeexpats.com/viewtopic.php?t=136462&start=15#p836350 And then there were outbursts during and post election over Indian nationals/Changi business p...

Yes. Approved on first application. Applied Nov 2018, approved May 19. Applied as a family (of 3).

^ no more LTVP+ now - one less step but an absolutely min of 3 years IMO from zero to PR. Interesting. When did they do away with it? A relative (Singaporean) married a woman from another ASEAN country in 2016 and she arrived in Singapore on an STVP. After about 6 months, she got an LTVP and this w...

They are looking at a bunch of criteria, not just one or two, but no one knows what these are. If you tick the right boxes, you are in - way before any spouse is even allowed to apply. I am a PR, recently approved on the first application which was processed in 6+ months. So, don't generalise. I bel...

You won't be eligible to apply for PR straight away. The route will be as follows - STVP, LTVP, LTVP+ and PR. It will be a couple of years before the LTVP can be converted to LTVP+ and then some more years to PR status (if at all successful). Given the high number of fake marriages (with the aim to ...

Smoulder, nope, it's a long road to citizenship for the spouse of a Singaporean - STVP, LTVP, LTVP+, PR...and finally SC (if successful). They want to make sure it's not a marriage of convenience and they monitor that for years. I know of someone who was rejected 4 times (the last time even after th...

Ultratech, then I agree it's a bit of a mystery. All the best. I hope it works out in the end. To answer your question, markers of integration that I think are important: 1) kids in local school 2) HDB over condo 3) learning one of the three official languages 4) community club membership and partic...

Do you have a son? Did you keep him out of the PR application 11 years ago, when you applied? Did you try to make him a PR at some point? Or is he on an LTVP / Student Pass? Unfortunately, if you decided your son should avoid NS while you became PRs, it's too late now to convince ICA that you were n...

There is a certain group of people who have no real interest in integration. Unfortunately, ICA has got wind of it now. This group seems to believe that professional success and being in Singapore long term are enough to earn them PR and citizenship. Earlier, most did not apply for PR for their boys...