My nationality is French. He is also French. I just graduated from INSEAD MBA program in Singapore. My profile is fintech and I have an exec position in my actual Singaporien company. I got my EP approval in 1 week. So I don't feel that my profile is somehow suspicious for them. which limits did he push? Hé never overstayed, or worked, or broke the law here.PNGMK wrote:What's your nationality? I wonder if this is more about you than him. However he pushed the limits.
Without a direct pipeline, it's only and SWAG, and your boyfriend got whacked because he stayed in Singapore for 5 months and only "went out from Singapore 2 times for a couple of days each time".feshakov wrote:which limits did he push? Hé never overstayed, or worked, or broke the law here.
Strong Eagle wrote:Without a direct pipeline, it's only and SWAG, and your boyfriend got whacked because he stayed in Singapore for 5 months and only "went out from Singapore 2 times for a couple of days each time".feshakov wrote:which limits did he push? Hé never overstayed, or worked, or broke the law here.
This is NOT the profile of a typical tourist. It is the profile of a typical over stayer, and rightly or wrongly, ICA has determined that his intention was to stay in Singapore. Now, he's been flagged in the system and it will be an uphill battle to convince the gahmen that you're not merely creating a marriage of convenience so that he can stay even longer.
Completely forget about trying to get some sort of common law declaration under these circumstances. A real, honest marriage will be hard enough to prove up to get a DP and get him back into the country.
The only way I see this working is that you get married in France, possess a French marriage certificate, you come back and have your company apply for his DP. Maybe that will work. I don't think he'll get in otherwise.
Thank you for your comment. No, I know for sure that he did NOT commit anything criminal in Singapore. I was almost 100% of time with him, we have a common credit card and bank account. I know in person all of his friends here. If there were something I would know about it. To be eligible to request his criminal record he needs to have a SingPass or FIN, he doesn't have one as he was staying on a tourist visa.PNGMK wrote:Hmmm, I wonder if he has done something he has not disclosed to you (and no, I'm not trying to make you worried). I wonder whether it's worth a run down to the Police HQ at Cantonment and pulling a copy of his criminal record in Singapore - the catch 22 being that I think he has to do it (https://www.police.gov.sg/e-services/ap ... -clearance)? Honestly MOM / ICA don't give a toss about your job unless it's solving a huge issue in Singapore. Also google his name to make sure he's not sharing a name with a known criminal or similar. An appeal may help as your employer suggested.
PNGMK wrote:Hmmm, I wonder if he has done something he has not disclosed to you (and no, I'm not trying to make you worried). I wonder whether it's worth a run down to the Police HQ at Cantonment and pulling a copy of his criminal record in Singapore - the catch 22 being that I think he has to do it (https://www.police.gov.sg/e-services/ap ... -clearance)? Honestly MOM / ICA don't give a toss about your job unless it's solving a huge issue in Singapore. Also google his name to make sure he's not sharing a name with a known criminal or similar. An appeal may help as your employer suggested.
Good luck but don't be surprised if it doesn't go your way. We have seen plenty of examples where one govt. dept seems at odds with another, particularly around immigration. Decisions are made by civil servants following a process, if you don't fit that process it's your problem not theirs.feshakov wrote: The government may give a toss about my job because I work for a startup company in a very "hot" sector in Singapore and my company got a grant from the government to develop their business. We are only 6 in the company and only 4 of us are full-time. So losing 25% of employees workforce for a startup which is sponsored by the government is like throwing money! At least from my point of view, I don't think that the government is THAT incompetent.
bgd wrote:Good luck but don't be surprised if it doesn't go your way. We have seen plenty of examples where one govt. dept seems at odds with another, particularly around immigration. Decisions are made by civil servants following a process, if you don't fit that process it's your problem not theirs.feshakov wrote: The government may give a toss about my job because I work for a startup company in a very "hot" sector in Singapore and my company got a grant from the government to develop their business. We are only 6 in the company and only 4 of us are full-time. So losing 25% of employees workforce for a startup which is sponsored by the government is like throwing money! At least from my point of view, I don't think that the government is THAT incompetent.
I tried to contact the French embassy, they responded that they cannot help and that we should make a request to Singapore authorities for visa entry, what we actually already did twice and each time the reason of rejection was not provided under "confidentiality" terms.PNGMK wrote:Perhaps ask your local embassy for advice. They (in the old days) sometimes had a liasion / consular officer who had cultivated local contacts who would give the back story.
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