Wd40 wrote:I am all for Dubai style work visas. They are actually lot better than Singapore PR. I personally know so many people who are in Dubai from 2 generations and they never had problems finding a job or visa. Here in Singpore, even having a PR doesn't mean its easy to find a job and houses are still expensive to buy. Best part about Dubai visa is male child doesn't have to do NS.
So if they implement Dubai style visas, its actually benefitting the foreigners. I doubt that will happen. EPs will be made hard to get, PRs even harder. So all round tightening should be expected.
pretty speechless I am
Dubai is an Emirate
so you prefer to earn and go back vs long term plans, hence your aversion to PR and NS, right?
I know people who have lived in Dubai and Kuwait and after 2 generations are neither here nor there and children are struggling to adapt in their adopted countries as pure last class residents and also in their own native countries,
not that they can be citizens in those countries even if they want to be
and maybe you have seen the rosy lifestyles in Dubai but a vast majority live less comfortably vs SG, and natives are always right in anything involving foreigners, including minor traffic accidents ..
yah, the high flyers have no issue I guess.
btw, now I understand what the locals here say, when they say certain nationalities have zero interest to sink roots here but try and reap all benefits and they should be given second or third class privilege until their second generation is here ...
PS, why do almost everyone from my forefather's country see NS as so bad like Death penalty? its another subject I guess ...
