PR Advice

[v1v2]

I am 42 year old Indian on PEP since 2010. PR rejected for self, spouse, family and 2 sons ( now 14 and 10 years of age ). I had applied for PR in 2012 and got rejection in 2013 after 11 months. Sons study in International School. My PEP ends in June 2015. I work for a foreign bank. salary bet 110K-120K PA. What are the chances of my PR approval, in case I apply again for whole family ?

[rajagainstthemachine]

pros: sons
cons: age, race

[bgd]

Has anything changed since your last application, i.e. some improvement in circumstances? If not then I doubt things will change if you reapply.

[nakatago]

Has anything changed since your last application, i.e. some improvement in circumstances? If not then I doubt things will change if you reapply.

He's pretty up there; I bet it's because he's a flight risk. A highly paid banker? That leads the pack in terms of mobility.

Would relocate to other countries at the drop of a dollar bill.

[bgd]

Has anything changed since your last application, i.e. some improvement in circumstances? If not then I doubt things will change if you reapply.

He's pretty up there; I bet it's because he's a flight risk. A highly paid banker? That leads the pack in terms of mobility.

Would relocate to other countries at the drop of a dollar bill.

That is a good point. Personally I've never understood why anyone would apply for a PR unless they really wanted to settle in Sg, or at the least stay for the for the long term. Any benefits that used to exist appear to have gone now.

[martincymru]

Has anything changed since your last application, i.e. some improvement in circumstances? If not then I doubt things will change if you reapply.

He's pretty up there; I bet it's because he's a flight risk. A highly paid banker? That leads the pack in terms of mobility.

Would relocate to other countries at the drop of a dollar bill.

That is a good point. Personally I've never understood why anyone would apply for a PR unless they really wanted to settle in Sg, or at the least stay for the for the long term. Any benefits that used to exist appear to have gone now.

If PR then you can set up a business. On EP cannot. That's one benefit. There are other benefits too.

[Wd40]

Has anything changed since your last application, i.e. some improvement in circumstances? If not then I doubt things will change if you reapply.

He's pretty up there; I bet it's because he's a flight risk. A highly paid banker? That leads the pack in terms of mobility.

Would relocate to other countries at the drop of a dollar bill.

That is a good point. Personally I've never understood why anyone would apply for a PR unless they really wanted to settle in Sg, or at the least stay for the for the long term. Any benefits that used to exist appear to have gone now.

To buy a condo with 5% ABSD instead of 15%? Especially the OP's profile kind of people who prolly oredy live in a condo and can easily buy it and then save money on rental as well. Also with the Jobs bank and stuff, PR lets you change jobs easily or atleast thats the perception.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Jobs Bank cannot openly advertise for PR's, only Citizens.

[Wd40]

Right. But you can straight away hire a citizen or PR by advertising on normal job sites. You need to advertise on the jobsbank only if you eventually want to hire a foreigner on EP.

So another way of looking at it, those companies/sectors that can hire SCs/PRs easily, won't even go to the jobsbank and those companies that advertise on jobsbank are more likely to hire foreigners, after completing the formality.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Depends on the Industry. We advertise always on JobsBank and don't want, nor have quotas for any more foreigners (in fact I'm currently 10 over quota with S pass holders and cannot hire enough locals to cover them, so when their renewals come up, I'm going to lose them. Sucks.

[Wd40]

Depends on the Industry. We advertise always on JobsBank and don't want, nor have quotas for any more foreigners (in fact I'm currently 10 over quota with S pass holders and cannot hire enough locals to cover them, so when their renewals come up, I'm going to lose them. Sucks.

Interesting. How has your experience been in terms of getting locals using jobsbank v/s traditional means? My impression was the Jobsbank is means for companies to show evidence to the MoM that they are not getting enough locals and not really their main hiring source, I could be wrong though. I would be interested to know how many companies who hire only Singaporeans/PRs use the Jobsbank as their main source and also locals who are looking for jobs, how many of them use the jobsbank to search for jobs instead of Jobstreet and monster etc

The search engine of the jobsbank is pathetic. Try searching some popular skill like "Java" and you will notice that the results are only those where the title has the word Java in it and it doesn't allow you to do a search within the job description. So if the jobs title was just software engineer, you will never get it in the results.

https://www.jobsbank.gov.sg/ICMSPortal/ ... dSearch.do

The best way to apply for a job on jobsbank is to actually search for the job on a 3rd party search engine like Indeed.

May be the jobsbank was developed by local developers, as using foreigners to develop it would have been ironic

[JR8]

I tried going to Jobsbank just now, and the page-request returned 'The servers certificate chain is incomplete... ', and it won't load.

[ironic]

[v1v2]

Hi, I was out of country on business and couldn't reply. Thanks for your replies. I have lived and worked in the US and Japan with MNC banks and got an opportunity to work in Singapore 5 years ago. I was very happy with the cultural aspects and hence wanted to settle down in SG - temples, literary activities, friendly people etc.
On the professional front, in the last 3 years, salary increased 25%, got promoted one notch up. On the personal front, I am releasing a book on literature next month ( not that it might help but just stating a fact ).
That is my story.

[nakatago]

Hi, I was out of country on business and couldn't reply. Thanks for your replies. I have lived and worked in the US and Japan with MNC banks and got an opportunity to work in Singapore 5 years ago. I was very happy with the cultural aspects and hence wanted to settle down in SG - temples, literary activities, friendly people etc.
On the professional front, in the last 3 years, salary increased 25%, got promoted one notch up. On the personal front, I am releasing a book on literature next month ( not that it might help but just stating a fact ).
That is my story.

You're too successful for your own good.

[Wd40]

Hi, I was out of country on business and couldn't reply. Thanks for your replies. I have lived and worked in the US and Japan with MNC banks and got an opportunity to work in Singapore 5 years ago. I was very happy with the cultural aspects and hence wanted to settle down in SG - temples, literary activities, friendly people etc.
On the professional front, in the last 3 years, salary increased 25%, got promoted one notch up. On the personal front, I am releasing a book on literature next month ( not that it might help but just stating a fact ).
That is my story.

So you liked Singapore more than US and Japan. Interesting.