MarkinSG wrote: ↑Wed, 23 Sep 2020 2:17 pm
Hi there! Long time reader, first time poster.
Was wondering if you could all give me any ideas if you think I should submit an application.
Age : 31
Race : Caucasian (English)
Gender : Male
Marital Status : SG Partner, not married (although living together)
Religion : NA
Education : Bachelors Degree
Current Field of Work : Manpower & HR
Length of stay : 7 years
No of tax return : Every year since arrival,
Salary : 90k p/a
Pass : EP
I imagine you would not be successful.
I'll address the factor that you probably imagine is the strongest in your favour - your SG partner. The fact you are not married would be a red flag. To even be in with a chance, you would need to be married for at least 2 years.
Now we have addressed that. You are essentially submitting on your own (your partner provides no help)
Let's look at the rest of your qualifications. Remember you need to look at your qualifications vs your cohort which is early 30s caucasians. Those are the ones you are competing again
In that case your salary is low. Like we've observed before, there are many well paid expats from Western countries here. A bog standard VP at a bank is probably on around 10-15k per month.
Generalising here but HR is not a highly valued job as determined by the Singapore government, unless you happen to be supporting some fancy smancy high tech, bio science etc etc
Go ahead and apply though. What harm is there? The worst that could happen is they say no?
Alternatively, you could settle down with your SYT and apply as the spouse of a SC...
