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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by riri85 » Tue, 26 Jul 2016 5:04 pm

ah ok. will take note!
Just looking to see what happens.

On a side note... coz I've been reading here and there PR process takes a freaking long time.
Once we ROM + LTVP (I actually tried the Pre-LTVP, we got our approval in days lol) Will reapply next year.

How soon should we start the process for PR?
Coz.. next year i'm 32.. Kinda wanna make it in time before I hit 35 to apply for BTO.
(I think can still pay 5% first den 5% later if before 35)

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by Barnsley » Tue, 26 Jul 2016 5:10 pm

riri85 wrote: How soon should we start the process for PR?
Coz.. next year i'm 32.. Kinda wanna make it in time before I hit 35 to apply for BTO.
(I think can still pay 5% first den 5% later if before 35)
Who said Romance is dead :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Life is short, paddle harder!!

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by riri85 » Tue, 26 Jul 2016 5:30 pm

Barnsley wrote:
riri85 wrote: How soon should we start the process for PR?
Coz.. next year i'm 32.. Kinda wanna make it in time before I hit 35 to apply for BTO.
(I think can still pay 5% first den 5% later if before 35)
Who said Romance is dead :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
HAHAHAHAHAHA !
Don't like that la!

I scared I don't have enough to cover the 10% CPF payment for a 4 room new home lei!
We can live with my parents but which couple doesn't want their own homeeee

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by sundaymorningstaple » Tue, 26 Jul 2016 5:41 pm

Barnsley wrote: Who said Romance is dead :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
I thought "Let's apply for a flat" was the STANDARD marriage proposal in Singapore. That seems to be about as romantic as it gets, except for spending a whole year's salary on a wedding that wont be remembered by anybody except the bride. With the TFR here at only 1.13 obviously not much else is in the cards. ;-)
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: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by riri85 » Tue, 26 Jul 2016 6:09 pm

Yesssss... since my plan is 2 kids.. they should let me get married and give my wife to be PR asap hahahaha

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Post by ecureilx » Tue, 26 Jul 2016 7:09 pm

riri85 wrote:Yesssss... since my plan is 2 kids.. they should let me get married and give my wife to be PR asap hahahaha
Well, According to the new rules, PR is not required.

Long term pass allows near PR like benefits. ;)

And anyways, as a SC, you don't need her to get a house - right ? :D

Fast forward your plans mate- do the ROM thing soon.

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by riri85 » Tue, 26 Jul 2016 9:36 pm

Well... I don't really wanna have kids in my current house!
Its gonna be squeezy. Parents + Brother + wife + me + kids = die?

I'll prob try to drag the kids thing until when the BTO is almost ready... hopefully my sperm arent too fat and lazy..

hmm.. Yeah but resale?... I don't have that kinda cash.
ANd even if I do, i'm not going to spend it like that... its a real waste..

Not when I can take that money and grow it.

OH!

My question:
How long do I need to wait before applying PR for my spouse (With LTVP)

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Post by BBCWatcher » Tue, 26 Jul 2016 9:53 pm

riri85 wrote:Well... I don't really wanna have kids in my current house!
Its gonna be squeezy. Parents + Brother + wife + me + kids = die?
Apparently you already have a few "kids" in the home. They just happen to be bigger and older than most. ;)

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by ToeToe » Sun, 27 Apr 2025 5:53 pm

i don't know if anyone is still reading this post or not. But i am in a similar position as the OP :v, just the other way around. I am an indonesian chinese male, i have dated my Singaporean Chinese gf for almost 4 years before we decided to tie the knot 2 months ago. i am 25 this year and she's 24. Planning on getting LTVP but at the same time we are also anxious, my wife earns 2.3k a month, and based on our "googling research", we have a very little chance of getting our LTVP accepted because.. well.. based on the ICA criteria, she's not earning enough as a sponsor. we did PMLA and it got rejected back then, she was earning much less than that as a part timer but she decided to get a full time job in order to earn more and be more eligible for our LTVP as the sponsor.

as for me, i personally could've just bid my time and wait, but i don't really want her to shoulder everything alone so i decided to test my luck on work permit, 4 years of experience in retail and sales industry, so i have been applying on retail/sales jobs, so far its been rejection after rejections but well, it is job hunting after all.

We are still going to try our luck on LTVP after my wife has worked for quite a few months there to get the Pay slip records.

so i wanna ask if there's any advice from senior's here or any update from the OP if you guys managed to be together in SG, would love to hear more, and if y'all need more questions, i am more than happy to answer as long as it doesn't get too personal :D

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by niceit198 » Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:13 am

1st as long u both been married , for citizen-foreigner couple , ltvp is just no problem to get. Ya sponsor require full time work

Before u both married, do u work in Singapore before ?

After u work in Singapore only get married ?



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Sun, 27 Apr 2025 5:53 pm
i don't know if anyone is still reading this post or not. But i am in a similar position as the OP :v, just the other way around. I am an indonesian chinese male, i have dated my Singaporean Chinese gf for almost 4 years before we decided to tie the knot 2 months ago. i am 25 this year and she's 24. Planning on getting LTVP but at the same time we are also anxious, my wife earns 2.3k a month, and based on our "googling research", we have a very little chance of getting our LTVP accepted because.. well.. based on the ICA criteria, she's not earning enough as a sponsor. we did PMLA and it got rejected back then, she was earning much less than that as a part timer but she decided to get a full time job in order to earn more and be more eligible for our LTVP as the sponsor.

as for me, i personally could've just bid my time and wait, but i don't really want her to shoulder everything alone so i decided to test my luck on work permit, 4 years of experience in retail and sales industry, so i have been applying on retail/sales jobs, so far its been rejection after rejections but well, it is job hunting after all.

We are still going to try our luck on LTVP after my wife has worked for quite a few months there to get the Pay slip records.

so i wanna ask if there's any advice from senior's here or any update from the OP if you guys managed to be together in SG, would love to hear more, and if y'all need more questions, i am more than happy to answer as long as it doesn't get too personal :D

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by ToeToe » Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:25 am

niceit198 wrote:
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:13 am
1st as long u both been married , for citizen-foreigner couple , ltvp is just no problem to get. Ya sponsor require full time work

Before u both married, do u work in Singapore before ?

After u work in Singapore only get married ?



ToeToe wrote:
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 5:53 pm
i don't know if anyone is still reading this post or not. But i am in a similar position as the OP :v, just the other way around. I am an indonesian chinese male, i have dated my Singaporean Chinese gf for almost 4 years before we decided to tie the knot 2 months ago. i am 25 this year and she's 24. Planning on getting LTVP but at the same time we are also anxious, my wife earns 2.3k a month, and based on our "googling research", we have a very little chance of getting our LTVP accepted because.. well.. based on the ICA criteria, she's not earning enough as a sponsor. we did PMLA and it got rejected back then, she was earning much less than that as a part timer but she decided to get a full time job in order to earn more and be more eligible for our LTVP as the sponsor.

as for me, i personally could've just bid my time and wait, but i don't really want her to shoulder everything alone so i decided to test my luck on work permit, 4 years of experience in retail and sales industry, so i have been applying on retail/sales jobs, so far its been rejection after rejections but well, it is job hunting after all.

We are still going to try our luck on LTVP after my wife has worked for quite a few months there to get the Pay slip records.

so i wanna ask if there's any advice from senior's here or any update from the OP if you guys managed to be together in SG, would love to hear more, and if y'all need more questions, i am more than happy to answer as long as it doesn't get too personal :D
Yah we have been officially married in singapore for 2 months now.

and no before both of us got married, i have never worked in singapore, only a visits here and there.
i am not sure what you mean by "After u work in singapore only get married" but when i got married to her, i am indeed, unemployed(i just quit my job a few months prior).

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by niceit198 » Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:13 pm

ToeToe wrote:
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:25 am
niceit198 wrote:
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:13 am
1st as long u both been married , for citizen-foreigner couple , ltvp is just no problem to get. Ya sponsor require full time work

Before u both married, do u work in Singapore before ?

After u work in Singapore only get married ?



ToeToe wrote:
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 5:53 pm
i don't know if anyone is still reading this post or not. But i am in a similar position as the OP :v, just the other way around. I am an indonesian chinese male, i have dated my Singaporean Chinese gf for almost 4 years before we decided to tie the knot 2 months ago. i am 25 this year and she's 24. Planning on getting LTVP but at the same time we are also anxious, my wife earns 2.3k a month, and based on our "googling research", we have a very little chance of getting our LTVP accepted because.. well.. based on the ICA criteria, she's not earning enough as a sponsor. we did PMLA and it got rejected back then, she was earning much less than that as a part timer but she decided to get a full time job in order to earn more and be more eligible for our LTVP as the sponsor.

as for me, i personally could've just bid my time and wait, but i don't really want her to shoulder everything alone so i decided to test my luck on work permit, 4 years of experience in retail and sales industry, so i have been applying on retail/sales jobs, so far its been rejection after rejections but well, it is job hunting after all.

We are still going to try our luck on LTVP after my wife has worked for quite a few months there to get the Pay slip records.

so i wanna ask if there's any advice from senior's here or any update from the OP if you guys managed to be together in SG, would love to hear more, and if y'all need more questions, i am more than happy to answer as long as it doesn't get too personal :D
Yah we have been officially married in singapore for 2 months now.

and no before both of us got married, i have never worked in singapore, only a visits here and there.
i am not sure what you mean by "After u work in singapore only get married" but when i got married to her, i am indeed, unemployed(i just quit my job a few months prior).
Btw once u officially married u may just apply ltvp , even your spouse (citizen) not in full time work, even there only 1 month payslip normally won’t be issue just that the duration ica granted to u like 1-5year+

For spouse PR case then not apply , “sponsor and support are more strict.

For Some person work in Singapore before if don’t get approval prior married then ltvp may difficult. Since u never worked in Singapore before married then just as normal process.

Btw as u on visit entry ? Like 30days ? When expired how u doing it ?

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by ToeToe » Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:31 pm

niceit198 wrote:
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:13 pm
ToeToe wrote:
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:25 am
niceit198 wrote:
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:13 am
1st as long u both been married , for citizen-foreigner couple , ltvp is just no problem to get. Ya sponsor require full time work

Before u both married, do u work in Singapore before ?

After u work in Singapore only get married ?



Yah we have been officially married in singapore for 2 months now.

and no before both of us got married, i have never worked in singapore, only a visits here and there.
i am not sure what you mean by "After u work in singapore only get married" but when i got married to her, i am indeed, unemployed(i just quit my job a few months prior).
Btw once u officially married u may just apply ltvp , even your spouse (citizen) not in full time work, even there only 1 month payslip normally won’t be issue just that the duration ica granted to u like 1-5year+

For spouse PR case then not apply , “sponsor and support are more strict.

For Some person work in Singapore before if don’t get approval prior married then ltvp may difficult. Since u never worked in Singapore before married then just as normal process.

Btw as u on visit entry ? Like 30days ? When expired how u doing it ?
Oh what ? I thought she would have atleast get 6 months of payslips first O.o that is actually an extremely good news for us, thank you so much !!

And yes i am usually on visit entry, though currently i am not in singapore, i have a trip planned in july though to celebrate my wife birthday with my in-laws. My usual duration whenever i visit singapore is only between 1-3 weeks at most, since, although i am unemployed, i am also helping my parents in their day to day business.For now, Can't really leave for long else i get smacked 🤣🤣

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by niceit198 » Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:01 am

Just apply ltvp nothing special , approval base on ica too early to happy. Just ask your wife login ica apply ltvp that all.

If u want apply pr eventually u have to stay here for a period.

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Re: Work Permit - Indonesian Chinese

Post by ToeToe » Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:05 am

niceit198 wrote:
Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:01 am
Just apply ltvp nothing special , approval base on ica too early to happy. Just ask your wife login ica apply ltvp that all.

If u want apply pr eventually u have to stay here for a period.
Yes that is very true. Still too early to celebrate, and yea, we will try and apply for the LTVP soon and if not successful, we will try again in november(where she would definitely have 6 months worth of payslips).

And yes, i do plan on applying for PR and then SC eventually and i am planning to stay and start a family in Singapore.

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