sundaymorningstaple wrote:There used to be a program whereas they were offering Tertiary Students PR upon graduation from the Universities here for quite some time but they stopped that a couple of years ago. Now, some of those people who were invited did not take up the offer at the time, but still decided to work here and managed to find jobs to do so. Then after a couple of years decided to apply for PR and were rejected. Were they not what the government was looking for? Or was the government being vindictive because they turned down the open offer of PR while they were still seniors at Uni? We don't know, but the whole program was stopped and the Landed PR programme was stopped as was the applying after being here for 6 months although that is still considered as available on the website. Maybe if you are a rocket scientist.
They make the criteria such as to leave themselves a way out all the time. You cannot box them in. It's like the self-assessment test on the website for Employment Visas, Just because one passes the criteria, everybody thinks they should get it. They misread the site. The self-assessment test is only to see if you are qualified to APPLY for a visa. There is still no guarantee that you will get it.
Hmm speaking it, I do actually have a few friends who were offered PR during poly times, though not knowing what are the basis for the invitation ... except for chinese malaysians because well, chinese malaysians.
I still recalled that most of us foreign students didn't update ICA our residential addresses thinking it was some trivial stuff, after then one by one start receiving letters (for those who stayed the same place since they came, and those who did update ICA regularly) ... the rest of us start panicking and checking our previous landlords to see whether the golden ticket did arrive
oh well, i suppose that's a bloody expensive mistake to make ...
