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Minus PR who is married to SC, chance for non chinese and without SC spouse is lower, she said 80% of foreign spouses approved and about 4K+ approved out of 20K total. Last year they said they move 5K to this year as they was granted approval at end of year, so it seems like they take average 15K ea...

Hi all. I am currently an undergraduate from NTU and I will be graduating in June this year. I am a Malaysian, 22 and I have been studying here for the past 3 years. As a foreigner, I am kinda worried about my career prospect once I graduate because most of the companies' requirement is that the ap...

Hi - my partner (not wife) will be joining me in Singapore. I have an employment pass sponsored by my work. She doesn't have a job here, and will be looking for work. I know she can enter the Country on a 30 day tourist visa. If she leaves the country before her visa expiry, and then re-enters, say...

Well, as expected our team manager from New York just told us that our department head have decided to wind down the Singapore team by the end of this year. We have few choices: 1) move to Hyderabad, which is where all the Singapore positions are moving to and some NY positions as well. 2) look for...

I am curious to know which company would pay an Indian with no degree in IT 10.5K a month because 99.99% people in IT from India has degree or Master!

It depends largely on the profile of people they want to get at this time. I know many Malaysian Chinese get approved with just 4 years of PR but another Fillipino couple with 12 years PRship and earning exceeding 15K for both with a son got rejected repeatedly since 2010, they deeply regret it as t...

Go to hell Newbie. What do you think I am? I've been here long enough to to know this shit. Like it or loathe it, you chose to live in Singapore, so do not say such thing as "sinking ship" to describe the country that give you the chance to earn a living here for years. You have been here for a lon...

I visited a factory that makes components for well completions in Nusajaya yesterday. Malaysia Boleh for sure. That place is rocking along. Wait until you actually lived there and you will regret deeply. No way Malaysia can catch up with Singapore, simply because there are systematic things and str...

I know its tough but MOM/ICA should check the ratio of nationalities in a team for which the foreigner is being hired. This is to prevent enclaves forming within companies of certain nationalities when the team lead or manager comes of that nationality. Certain nationalities are not comfortable bos...

I visited a factory that makes components for well completions in Nusajaya yesterday. Malaysia Boleh for sure. That place is rocking along. Wait until you actually lived there and you will regret deeply. No way Malaysia can catch up with Singapore, simply because there are systematic things and str...

From what I can see, banks follow each other as they want to be competitive and sooner or later they will move majority of IT jobs to India, Credit Suisse did, so does Morgan Stanley and other banks are planning too. After all, most IT staff in singapore are Indians so it does not make sense paying ...

My best friend who works in a big MNC here also just submitted an impulsive PEP application, his company is planning to cut or relocate to India the whole department, both options would mean he will lose his job as relocating to India is not an option for most non-Indian Asian with family and kids. ...

For Vietnamese, chance is close to zero, similarly for fillipino, indian etc.. most favorable now are malaysian chineses only

As we can observe recently, for Malaysian Chinese, no matter how profile is, they will always approve within a few weeks, no matter how low salary, how low education, how short the stay, being Malaysian Chinese will offset all these as Singapore consider Malaysian Chinese as defacto local, even for ...

Spouse of a PR can apply for PR but spouse of an EP cannot, however in current situation, it is too hard to get PR even if you are qualified to apply so yes EP has higher privilege than PR and probably higher than citizen since LTVP+ is not easy to be granted at first time