qwertykeyboard wrote:My parents were divorced when my mother decided to bring me here and she remarried to a Singaporean man. Neither my parents are Singaporeans at the time of my birth (my mother has since converted to Singaporean).
I believe that she tried applying for me again after getting her PR but because she was a homemaker and not drawing a salary, I think that's the basis of the rejections. After a couple of times, she just gave up.
Methinks you are between a rock and a hard place, to tell the truth.
I know it's personal but sometime some facts may shed a wee be more light. When she remarried, were you still a minor child? If so, why did your stepfather not adopt you? On another point, did your mother have sole custody? If not, I believe the government may have thought that your real father would/could create problems if there was joint custody. However, none of these things, today, will make any difference (aside from our quest for knowledge of how MOM/ICA look at things). The fact remains that because you have not had PR and have been on a student pass all these years, puts the onus on you.
If you want PR and possibly SGC, you are going to have to apply for the PR as offered via the current offering. That, if successful, is going to entail doing NS. As for the fairness of it? Well, another way to look at it is that if your student pass expires, you will have to leave the country after 30 days. Then the only way to gain PR is to earn it in your own right, e.g., you are going to need at least 4 or 5 years experience in a field that may still be open to foreigners in that kind of time from and then apply for an Employment Pass. After obtaining an EP for 2 or 3 years you can then apply for PR. (You know, I'm sure, that they are curtailing the hiring of FTs rather dramatically in the past 5 years or so). Without experience, you will not be able to get a job here. Foreign freshers cannot get jobs here. Why hire a foreigner fresh graduate when there are local graduates that can be hired. In your case it will be even worse as your education will be the same as the locals but you will still be a foreigner (even though you have been here almost all of your life). This is not your fault, but your mother & possibly stepfather's fault for not being persistent enough.
The way around it? Other than applying and doing the NS if successful, you would have to leave home and live in your country of origin and find a job there to gain enough experience to try and come back and apply for an Employment Pass if you can find work and then follow the protocol towards PR like the rest of had to do. And at the rate that they are closing the doors on Employment Passes, who knows what it will look like in 3 or 4 more years.
I wish I had better information for you, but I've seen this happen all too often and always with bad results. As your mother is now an SGC, maybe a trip to the MPS and talk with your MP, but I've not seen much good come from that venue either. They will write a letter to the relevant ministry but the ministries don't really pay too much attention from what I've seen.
sms
