radioburn wrote: ↑Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:09 am
Hi everyone, first time poster who's benefitted immensely from the discussions on this forum, so I thought I'd share my experience as well (as I didn't find too many examples in the forum for someone of a similar profile to myself, so this might be helpful to some future readers).
Details at the time of application
Main applicant: Male 39
Nationality: Malaysian (Indian descent)
Education: Adv.Dip from a UK top-3 uni, UK degree + Masters and pursuing a further UK post-grad course
Pass: EP
Length of stay/Working in Singapore: 3 Years 2 months
Income tax Assessment: 3 times at time of application
Employment/salary: Fintech Risk & Compliance, $140k + stocks & bonuses
Total Work Experience: 16 years
Spouse (also on application): Female, 37
Nationality: Malaysian (Indian descent)
Pass: DP
Education: Australian Degree, + Masters from a top UK uni whilst currently pursuing a second UK Masters program
Length of stay/Working in Singapore: 2 Years
Currently not drawing salary in Singapore due to restrictions with DP, but volunteers with community programs and interns for NGOs.
Married for 1.5 years, no kids.
We applied at end-May 2021, submit documents button disappeared mid Dec-21, and we received our notice of approval on the 1st week of Jan 2022.
Happy to have received our approval as it looks like they are harder to come by (but not impossible) these days. We didn't utilize any agencies and supporting/cover letters (though we did prepare them initially, we never submitted them as there isn't an avenue to submit them through the actual online application form, as previously pointed out on this forum).
Another question I had through this process was whether translation of documents was needed (as some of our documents were only in the Malay language). Some advised us to translate them anyway although Malay is the national language in SG; we chose not to and evidently it wasn't an issue.