Indeed, hypothetically it shouldn't, but it has in the past. I personally know of one case where the father (PR) had to sell his share of the flat and lost his PR (and he had three young kids) after the divorce (he was also the sole breadwinner). The situation was rather sad as the father was extremely devoted to his kids, the wife was running around but she was a SC and he just happened to be a sea-going ship captain in the Merchant Marines. Therefore, they determined he was no longer resident. I doubt that this would happen today, but it did, in fact, happen back in the either late '80's or early '90's - can't quite remember exactly when, but it bothered the hell out of this new PR back then, who had a young family and worked in the offshore seismic survey industry at the time.BBCWatcher wrote:So no, your wife's acquisition of citizenship has no impact on your PR status. Indeed, a hypothetical divorce wouldn't affect your PR status either.
I hope ICA and SG inc don't start going after you for your ideas which are against what SG has been preaching for the last 10 years or so - come and stay here, or leave. No one leg here and another here.BBCWatcher wrote:That said, this might be less of a problem with India (for example) if the new citizen can qualify for POI status, and if POI status provides sufficient ability to stay in India for these purposes. In fact, Singaporean citizenship combined with POI status can be downright terrific in these terms because it means the newly Singaporean spouse can take even longer "shifts" in India, allowing the PR spouse to remain living and working in Singapore for much longer shifts to have no problem renewing his/her REPs. But India is at least a bit unusual in this way, as I understand it. Most countries' former citizens lose their own rights to residence and employment when they renounce, although they may preserve some limited rights if they return together with their citizen spouse. (Citizenship diversification within a household is probably a good thing, in general.)
One of my US friends here lost his PR status when he got divorced from his SC wife.....sundaymorningstaple wrote:Indeed, hypothetically it shouldn't, but it has in the past. I personally know of one case where the father (PR) had to sell his share of the flat and lost his PR (and he had three young kids) after the divorce (he was also the sole breadwinner). The situation was rather sad as the father was extremely devoted to his kids, the wife was running around but she was a SC and he just happened to be a sea-going ship captain in the Merchant Marines. Therefore, they determined he was no longer resident. I doubt that this would happen today, but it did, in fact, happen back in the either late '80's or early '90's - can't quite remember exactly when, but it bothered the hell out of this new PR back then, who had a young family and worked in the offshore seismic survey industry at the time.BBCWatcher wrote:So no, your wife's acquisition of citizenship has no impact on your PR status. Indeed, a hypothetical divorce wouldn't affect your PR status either.
Your wife will have a Singapore passport; you will have yours.NonAm3 wrote:Thanks for all the reply. It was certainly very helpful. How about the passport thing? Anyone has any idea?
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