the end of a long journey from student > EP > PR > SC

[beard1]

It's been a while! Dropping in to say I just got my in principle SC approval today. It's been quite the journey, from two rejections, being laughed at here for being a blood donor, becoming a PR, buying a home, producing a very Singaporean baby boy and now finally approval.

Thanks everyone who helped me through my journey, and all the best to those still waiting for approvals of various things.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Congratulations and thanks for hanging in here all these years in spite of us. Sounds like all is starting to work the way it should. Looks like the Persistence, PR & Progrency Paid off.

[beard1]

Literally blood sweat and tears. Thanks sunday !

[PNGMK]

Roughy 5 years from student to SC?

[singaporeflyer]

Literally blood sweat and tears. Thanks sunday !

Congratulations. Your's should have been more easy than the PTS route because you had the below advantage, which is key

studied/grew up here + married to a Singaporean

[beard1]

Roughy 5 years from student to SC?

depends how you define student - I came here for sec 3 so it's been 15 years since my first student pass.
2005 > student pass (various; sec school, JC, uni)
2013 > EP
2017 > PR
2020 > SC IPA

[PNGMK]

Yeah that is a while. EP to SC in 7 years is pretty good. I think that the actual best achievable would be 5 years if the stars aligned (ignoring grace and favour applicants).

[beard1]

I'm happy with it either way - been here long enough for this to be home.

Although the fact that the SG Journey e learning can only be completed on internet explorer and doesn't work on
* apple computers
* tablets
* mobile phones

is giving me physical pain.

[singaporeflyer]

I'm happy with it either way - been here long enough for this to be home.

Although the fact that the SG Journey e learning can only be completed on internet explorer and doesn't work on
* apple computers
* tablets
* mobile phones

is giving me physical pain.

I think we should not be complaining. Shouldn't we be greatful for what we got? FYI, I completed mine on chrome and had no issues.

[beard1]

I think there's a difference between complaining (this sucks and I shall do nothing but point out that it sucks) and feedback with the intent to improve experiences (which I already sent through to PMO / NIC). Nothing wrong with improving if there's room too.

But thanks for the tip re: chrome! As of chrome 76 flash is blocked by default so I'll need to re-enable this, but still doubt it'll work on a mac, which is all we have at home. Going to use my wife's work laptop since that's the only windows device which I have convenient access to.

[kurtisnet]

I used Firefox in my case and after allowing Flash to run via Firefox permissions, I'm good to go. You could try that as well.