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WHICH IMMIGRATION SCHEME IS GOOD OPTION FOR ME?
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WHICH IMMIGRATION SCHEME IS GOOD OPTION FOR ME?
Hello ALL,
I am very new to this forum and I thank you for your time in advance. I have been thinking about immigrating to Singapore from Canada.
I have been in the Information Technology field for years and I have a university degree in computers. I am currently full time employeed with a well known software company in Canada.
And I would like to immigrate to Singapore as an independent immigrant. I do not have a job offer from a Singapore company.
There used to be a immigrate schema where all you need have a university degree and processional experience in your field. Singapore government will issue a visa without a job offer, you move to Singapore and find a job that time. if you can find a job, you could stay and apply for PR.
I have not been able to see such scheme/class anymore? Is this not being offered anymore?
Under above circumstances, which would be the best scheme/class for me to apply for immigration and come to Singapore without a job offer and find work in Singapore and apply for PR ?
Thanks!
I am very new to this forum and I thank you for your time in advance. I have been thinking about immigrating to Singapore from Canada.
I have been in the Information Technology field for years and I have a university degree in computers. I am currently full time employeed with a well known software company in Canada.
And I would like to immigrate to Singapore as an independent immigrant. I do not have a job offer from a Singapore company.
There used to be a immigrate schema where all you need have a university degree and processional experience in your field. Singapore government will issue a visa without a job offer, you move to Singapore and find a job that time. if you can find a job, you could stay and apply for PR.
I have not been able to see such scheme/class anymore? Is this not being offered anymore?
Under above circumstances, which would be the best scheme/class for me to apply for immigration and come to Singapore without a job offer and find work in Singapore and apply for PR ?
Thanks!
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Re: WHICH IMMIGRATION SCHEME IS GOOD OPTION FOR ME?
The EPEC (Employment Pass Elgibility Certificate) that would give you up to 1 year LTVP in order to secure a position in Singapore is no more. It was consigned to the annals of history around January 2013. The other measure was to buy your way in but that has also been dismantled or raised so high as to make it unpalatable (somewhere in the neighbourhood of 15,000,000 of business investments (Not personal housing).SingaporeWannabe34 wrote:Hello ALL,
I am very new to this forum and I thank you for your time in advance. I have been thinking about immigrating to Singapore from Canada.
I have been in the Information Technology field for years and I have a university degree in computers. I am currently full time employeed with a well known software company in Canada.
And I would like to immigrate to Singapore as an independent immigrant. I do not have a job offer from a Singapore company.
There used to be a immigrate schema where all you need have a university degree and processional experience in your field. Singapore government will issue a visa without a job offer, you move to Singapore and find a job that time. if you can find a job, you could stay and apply for PR.
I have not been able to see such scheme/class anymore? Is this not being offered anymore?
Under above circumstances, which would be the best scheme/class for me to apply for immigration and come to Singapore without a job offer and find work in Singapore and apply for PR ?
Thanks!
So. You only option now is to apply for a PEP (Personal Employment Pass) which will mean you need to be able to prove basic income for the last 6 months in excess of SGD 18K/mo. Then you might get in without a job (but you only get 6 months to find a job and you still need to show earning for the year of a minimum of, I believe, 144K/pa.
Or. you need to find a job before arriving here, or come in on a 90 standard SVP (Social Visit Pass) I think 90 days is available to Canadian like the US. As you are coming from the west, the likelihood of finding something that will pay remotely near what you are currently earning will be virtually zero as you will be competing with Indians/Chinese/Fillipinos for the same positions but they will work for half you asking salary in all probability. But Good Luck. You are going to need it in copious quantities.
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
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Re: WHICH IMMIGRATION SCHEME IS GOOD OPTION FOR ME?
What is one of these when its at home?SingaporeWannabe34 wrote: I have a university degree in computers.
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Again, why would that matter? Just because a person lives in Quebec, it doesn't mean they're Frogs. It just means they probably can speak French as well as English.
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
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Re: WHICH IMMIGRATION SCHEME IS GOOD OPTION FOR ME?
Thank you sundaymorningstaple for your input. Is there any SG government link where I can read more about the information you provided?sundaymorningstaple wrote:The EPEC (Employment Pass Elgibility Certificate) that would give you up to 1 year LTVP in order to secure a position in Singapore is no more. It was consigned to the annals of history around January 2013. The other measure was to buy your way in but that has also been dismantled or raised so high as to make it unpalatable (somewhere in the neighbourhood of 15,000,000 of business investments (Not personal housing).SingaporeWannabe34 wrote:Hello ALL,
I am very new to this forum and I thank you for your time in advance. I have been thinking about immigrating to Singapore from Canada.
I have been in the Information Technology field for years and I have a university degree in computers. I am currently full time employeed with a well known software company in Canada.
And I would like to immigrate to Singapore as an independent immigrant. I do not have a job offer from a Singapore company.
There used to be a immigrate schema where all you need have a university degree and processional experience in your field. Singapore government will issue a visa without a job offer, you move to Singapore and find a job that time. if you can find a job, you could stay and apply for PR.
I have not been able to see such scheme/class anymore? Is this not being offered anymore?
Under above circumstances, which would be the best scheme/class for me to apply for immigration and come to Singapore without a job offer and find work in Singapore and apply for PR ?
Thanks!
So. You only option now is to apply for a PEP (Personal Employment Pass) which will mean you need to be able to prove basic income for the last 6 months in excess of SGD 18K/mo. Then you might get in without a job (but you only get 6 months to find a job and you still need to show earning for the year of a minimum of, I believe, 144K/pa.
Or. you need to find a job before arriving here, or come in on a 90 standard SVP (Social Visit Pass) I think 90 days is available to Canadian like the US. As you are coming from the west, the likelihood of finding something that will pay remotely near what you are currently earning will be virtually zero as you will be competing with Indians/Chinese/Fillipinos for the same positions but they will work for half you asking salary in all probability. But Good Luck. You are going to need it in copious quantities.
I do not think I will have a hard time to find a job related to what I do here but I do have doubts when it comes to 144K/pa.
Things are not really that great in Canada. We do have a lot of taxes and not enough service offered by the government.
PS: I am ignoring the people above.
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Re: WHICH IMMIGRATION SCHEME IS GOOD OPTION FOR ME?
You shouldn't ignore the people above. I ran an IT infrastructure project management company for 8 years. Things have changed drastically.SingaporeWannabe34 wrote:PS: I am ignoring the people above.
You are naive. What is a "university degree in computers"? Surely you know the field is far more stratified than that? Is your degree in MIS? Process control? Chip design? Computer science?
I got out of Singapore because the business model changed. Jobs are moving away from Singapore at an increasing rate. They are either being outsourced to lower cost countries (especially the services side of IT), or they are being virtualized into countries (the last company I contracted to moved all of its SAP development services to Brazil).
There are probably a few niche areas that will remain in demand, security being one of them. Be aware that the top level functions are leaving as well as MNC's consolidate their workforces through global PMO's and their infrastructure through increasingly sophisticated facilities and remote access. At most, regional guys these days tend to be the "gophers" for the PMO directives.
I had a great run in Singapore when I was there. There's not a chance in hell I'd try it again under the current circumstances and changed business models.
Will you be satisfied with S$7 or 8K a month? That's the best you are going to be able to generate.
If you really want to get into Asia, look at opportunities in Malaysia, the Philippines, or even Vietnam. Singapore will kill you with high costs, the companies will pay you shit based upon the willingness of others to take shit, and the government, IF they grant you a work permit, will give you no sense of stability at all.
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Re: WHICH IMMIGRATION SCHEME IS GOOD OPTION FOR ME?
Ignore the people at your own peril. A lot of us have been on the ground here for a long, long time and have weathered the changes, or not.SingaporeWannabe34 wrote:Thank you sundaymorningstaple for your input. Is there any SG government link where I can read more about the information you provided?sundaymorningstaple wrote:The EPEC (Employment Pass Elgibility Certificate) that would give you up to 1 year LTVP in order to secure a position in Singapore is no more. It was consigned to the annals of history around January 2013. The other measure was to buy your way in but that has also been dismantled or raised so high as to make it unpalatable (somewhere in the neighbourhood of 15,000,000 of business investments (Not personal housing).SingaporeWannabe34 wrote:Hello ALL,
I am very new to this forum and I thank you for your time in advance. I have been thinking about immigrating to Singapore from Canada.
I have been in the Information Technology field for years and I have a university degree in computers. I am currently full time employeed with a well known software company in Canada.
And I would like to immigrate to Singapore as an independent immigrant. I do not have a job offer from a Singapore company.
There used to be a immigrate schema where all you need have a university degree and processional experience in your field. Singapore government will issue a visa without a job offer, you move to Singapore and find a job that time. if you can find a job, you could stay and apply for PR.
I have not been able to see such scheme/class anymore? Is this not being offered anymore?
Under above circumstances, which would be the best scheme/class for me to apply for immigration and come to Singapore without a job offer and find work in Singapore and apply for PR ?
Thanks!
So. You only option now is to apply for a PEP (Personal Employment Pass) which will mean you need to be able to prove basic income for the last 6 months in excess of SGD 18K/mo. Then you might get in without a job (but you only get 6 months to find a job and you still need to show earning for the year of a minimum of, I believe, 144K/pa.
Or. you need to find a job before arriving here, or come in on a 90 standard SVP (Social Visit Pass) I think 90 days is available to Canadian like the US. As you are coming from the west, the likelihood of finding something that will pay remotely near what you are currently earning will be virtually zero as you will be competing with Indians/Chinese/Fillipinos for the same positions but they will work for half you asking salary in all probability. But Good Luck. You are going to need it in copious quantities.
I do not think I will have a hard time to find a job related to what I do here but I do have doubts when it comes to 144K/pa.
Things are not really that great in Canada. We do have a lot of taxes and not enough service offered by the government.
PS: I am ignoring the people above.
For EPEC
http://www.mom.gov.sg/foreign-manpower/ ... ation.aspx
For PEP
http://www.mom.gov.sg/foreign-manpower/ ... fault.aspx
For EntrePass
http://www.mom.gov.sg/foreign-manpower/ ... fault.aspx
For Financial Investor's Scheme / GIP Global Investor's Program
http://tinyurl.com/m2oq6k6
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
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