Hi, I need help urgently.....
My family are Singapore citizen. We still own a HDB unit. We migrated in 2009, give birth to 4 wonder sons. Eldest son had finished his NS and second son is now serving NS. We knew that my eldest son need to serve NS because he got his NRIC. But when our second son was asked to serve NS, we were puzzled because he was only 11 when we were out of the country. Now my third son is asked to go back this year.
The story is, for the 2 eldest sons, we did as what we were asked to by mindef. Eg. to find 2 sureties. In 2009, my third son was only 8 Years old. This year after completing his high school, he has to go back for his NS. He did not renew the passport since expired in 2014. Return once in 2012. He is an overseas citizen since 2015 and so is his dad and younger brother who is turning 16 this year. We have no intention of going back or live in Sin. Since he turn the age of 16.5, he was asked to apply exit permit. We were told to get 2 sureties due to his staying out of Sin. But the problem is we can't find anyone who must be a Singaporean, holding a job to act for the bond. Now we received a letter to ask to go back for a medical checkup. What shall we do?
We did call the respective department telling the problem we are facing but they keep saying under NS Enlistment Act....... We intend to apply the exit permit again but will still come back to the same story when filling up the sureties column.
Initially we thought maybe we can appeal for the deferment till age 21. Once granted, he can apply exit permit without sureties but we were wrong. We get rejected a few times saying under NS Enlistment Act.....again. May I know if both parents give up citizenship and sell the house, does it help in the deferment and exit permit?
We had received a letter from mindef saying that our youngest son's exit permit had expired and was asked to apply again.We believe this time during the application, he will be facing the same problem as what his elder brother is facing. What is the next step we should do?