Thanks MOCHS for the sharing!MOCHS wrote: ↑Wed, 08 Dec 2021 8:56 pmSharing an anecdote: My colleague and her husband are ex-PRC nationals, converted into SGC more than 10 years ago. Her husband is the only child too.
When my colleague’s daughter was born, her husband brought his mother (colleague’s MIL) to SG and applied LTVP for her to look after the grandchild. The MIL had LTVP for 10 straight years before going back home to China since grandkid is older and doesn’t need to be looked after any more. The MIL lives with her sister and nephew now in China.
To my knowledge the MIL could have converted to SGC too as an “aged parent of a Singaporean citizen”.
Many options for your girlfriend, I feel. She can convert to SGC, bring her parents in on LTVP… maybe convert them to SGC if they want to.
Does her parents have any siblings they can stay with back home if they don’t want to come to SG?
My suggestion is apply for your SGC now while you are still single. That way you are a shoe-in, frankly speaking, but it might put your ROM off up to 12 months, but there will not be any if/ands or buts about your wife not being on the application as noted in the posts above. Everything MOCHS has said is good intel. In fact, I may start looking into SGC under the aged parent scheme as I now have two grown married children here, both SGCs. This will make it easier for your intended to return to China when the time comes if you marry after you obtain SGC and with her as a PR it will not be a problem for her to become a SGC once family issues in the PRC have resolved themselves.coffeetea.or.me wrote: ↑Thu, 09 Dec 2021 1:28 pmThanks MOCHS for the sharing!MOCHS wrote: ↑Wed, 08 Dec 2021 8:56 pmSharing an anecdote: My colleague and her husband are ex-PRC nationals, converted into SGC more than 10 years ago. Her husband is the only child too.
When my colleague’s daughter was born, her husband brought his mother (colleague’s MIL) to SG and applied LTVP for her to look after the grandchild. The MIL had LTVP for 10 straight years before going back home to China since grandkid is older and doesn’t need to be looked after any more. The MIL lives with her sister and nephew now in China.
To my knowledge the MIL could have converted to SGC too as an “aged parent of a Singaporean citizen”.
Many options for your girlfriend, I feel. She can convert to SGC, bring her parents in on LTVP… maybe convert them to SGC if they want to.
Does her parents have any siblings they can stay with back home if they don’t want to come to SG?
For the first part of the sharing, it is definitely some enlightening advise that we can look into. Really appreciate that!
As for the second part of the story, we did previously discussed with the parents side but unfortunately they are not interested to come over to SG. I understand, maybe it's rather hard for them accept the sudden change of environment and since they only speaks Chinese, it would be quite hard for them to fully integrate into the community.
All in all, it is a good suggestion and it's something my partner and I can further look into. Cheers mate!
Hi MixedMomma,MixedMomma wrote: ↑Fri, 14 Jan 2022 8:46 pmHi, may i chk have u gotten any update on ur SC application?
As I am also submitted the same timing as you, but no update yet.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi SMS,sundaymorningstaple wrote: ↑Sat, 15 Jan 2022 12:05 pmIn addition to the above, one thing did occur to me. The timing and durations of your future wife's return to the PRC will have to be monitored carefully so as not to lose her PR. While it shouldn't make any difference, it has been known to be rather difficult to regain PR (If she does return to the PRC but with the purpose of returning to Singapore later, make sure she doesn't touch her CPF account because if she loses her PR she could theoretically withdraw all her CPF BUT, and it is a BIG but, she would have to return ALL the CPF & Interest and also all the interest that would have accrued had it all been left intact. Only then would they even entertain giving her PR again.
Again, if she doesn't have to remain back in the PRC for an extended period non-stop for several years, then regular trips back several times a year could preclude that problem. It's not an insurmountable problem though. In fact, it's possible that speaking to ICA at some point could provide special considerations. They are often flexible and willing to work with those who want to stay and they do understand the problem of aged parents not wanting to uproot after an entire lifetime.
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