Just a pretty face I'll warrant.princesssaf wrote:I am a Singaporean who will be applying a spouse-sponsored PR for my foreigner husband. He is currently living and working in Saudi, where there is no taxation (i.e. no income tax form to submit). Some questions I have:
1) ICA said I should submit a letter from him stating why he does not have to pay income tax. Has anyone had experience writing this as we do not know how to phrase it? Is it really necessary?
As ICA said so, and it's ICA who will/will not grant your Husband PR, I'd say you probably should do exactly what they say to do.
2) ICA also said to write a letter stating which forms are not submitted and why. Do we have to do this or we just have to submit what forms we have?
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3) The only other document we can't submit is his birth cert as he does not have it with him right now. Is the birth cert compulsory? Can we go ahead to submit the rest of the documents without his birth cert?
Read my first answer!
I think it's pretty obvious that your husband did not marry upwards academically did he.....
Appreciate any help. Am desperate to apply for it just once, right, as I'll be leaving Singapore soon and want to get this settled asap. Thanks.
SMS, where did you leave your manners! Be a bit kinder to the ladies (if you expect them to have a pretty face ). You are right though, I am annoyed that people expect ICA to run after them to give their spouses PR. It is a privilege to get PR, not a right just because you married a Singaporean. As mentioned above already, I submitted 24 documents with my application. Everything from the wife's birth cert (KK Hospital of course ) to my pay slips and even Her Majesty's Revenues and Customs letters stating my NI Number so they can see my payslip and P60s are actually mine. When I completed the formalities at ICA the auntie at the counter said that this application was one of the tidiest and best arranged they ever received. She also said that I look very handsome!sundaymorningstaple wrote:Just a pretty face I'll warrant.princesssaf wrote:I am a Singaporean who will be applying a spouse-sponsored PR for my foreigner husband. He is currently living and working in Saudi, where there is no taxation (i.e. no income tax form to submit). Some questions I have:
1) ICA said I should submit a letter from him stating why he does not have to pay income tax. Has anyone had experience writing this as we do not know how to phrase it? Is it really necessary?
As ICA said so, and it's ICA who will/will not grant your Husband PR, I'd say you probably should do exactly what they say to do.
2) ICA also said to write a letter stating which forms are not submitted and why. Do we have to do this or we just have to submit what forms we have?
Read my first answer!
3) The only other document we can't submit is his birth cert as he does not have it with him right now. Is the birth cert compulsory? Can we go ahead to submit the rest of the documents without his birth cert?
Read my first answer!
I think it's pretty obvious that your husband did not marry upwards academically did he.....
Appreciate any help. Am desperate to apply for it just once, right, as I'll be leaving Singapore soon and want to get this settled asap. Thanks.
AUNTY MAN!!!! How charmingeconoMIC wrote:She also said that I look very handsome!
Look, they are some of the best and brightest. They have to make valuation decisions that determine if you get your PR or not. They don't like to be overridden so they try to get things right.princesssaf wrote:Thanks for all your replies, useful or not. Obviously I know that "following what ICA says" is the best way, but I thought people would be more helpful in providing constructive help with their experiences (from what I've experienced from different govt agencies, the helpline officers don't always know what they're talking about).
EconoMIC, thank you for your great advice Will be sure to look into that.
If she had a letter I am sure she would have done so because afterwards when I was about to leave and got my passport back she handed me candy with it I tell you, the Aunties love me. I even had a fan once when I was in the Sengkang Post Office and one auntie started shouting autograph and wanted me to sign her magazine?!?!sundaymorningstaple wrote:At 6'7" she must have been using a step ladder! Or she was standing up while you were sitting down.
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