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by Strong Eagle » Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:44 am
You are building your future on a pile of shifting sand if you want to make Singapore your permanent home.
Without at least PR, you and your future non-Singaporean wife are both at risk of immediate deportation if you lose your job and cannot find another one within 30 days. You have no security. What will you do? Where will you move? What of your children's education?
Your children will be treated as outsiders when it comes to the educational system. "Foreigners" have a limited number of spots available in the school system, and many expats... that's what you will be... put their children into private schools because there are no alternatives.
Even if you get PR, it's not really "permanent" like in many other countries. It always has to be renewed. And if you're the wrong ethnic flavor, and $6,000 is a problem for you, then you may well wait forever to get a PR, or be summarily rejected.
I'm not saying that you cannot possibly make a permanent home in Singapore, just that the deck is stacked against you to do so. I'd seriously consider other countries where your permanent residence was really permanent and meaningful, not able to be retracted at the whim of government policy. I'd find a country where you're not second class when it comes to schools and housing.
Edited to add: If you are ethnic Chinese, then your odds might be better than average of getting PR and maybe eventually getting citizenship. But, even as Chinese, if you're not from Malaysia or Indonesia, you may not be considered a good cultural fit. And the government has a hidden fear that if you're from mainland China, you might want to turn Singapore into one more Chinese province. Just look what China is doing in Laos and Cambodia... overrunning the local populations with thousands upon thousands of workers who will never go back.
If you're Indian, or some "other" Asian like Vietnamese or Korean or Filipino... well... good luck... your countrymen are taken in such small quantity as to make it like the lottery trying to get PR.