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by sundaymorningstaple » Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:10 am
As you have exited Singapore properly, having done your own NS, etc. If you qualify in your own right for an EP like any other person trying to get a job here (you get no benefit from having been a citizen nor are any points taken away as far as I'm aware of). So if you qualify, you have an EP. ( and there ARE documented cases of Ex-Citizens here on EP's, In fact, I actually met one, strangely enough, via eBay. (I bought a NOS Saddleback Leather backpack from him.) He's now a Canadian but was currently here on an EP, having been sent here by his company in Canada.
However, PR is out of the question unless you are so up there that you are actually offered it to return by the government (not the other way around) regardless of what is written in the statutes (it their call, it's not a right/entitlement).
The LTVP, frankly is another kettle of fish due to the changes made in the past two or three years. I could see you possibly getting an LTVP and being allowed to work (if you can get an EP, why not, especially at your income level). However, I believe that would be as far as it would go. (But on hindsight, maybe LTVP might be pushing it as there are some subsidies (little but some) available to LTVP holders that might cross the line with ICA and the provision of benefits to an ex-Singaporean. So, I wouldn't really count on it. But as I said, it's a gray area at this point in time as I doubt that it's been tested as of yet.
In cases like yours, I just say if your want "you buys yer ticket and takes yer chances". My advice, get an EP if possible. If not, try for an LTVP but don't hold your breath waiting. If you get your EP and want to try for an LTVP, go ahead, but remember most LTVPs are renewable annually and they don't have to do so (there is not an real permanence there either but at least it's longer than the 30 days given at the end of an EP.