truthhurts1 wrote: ↑Tue, 03 Jan 2023 8:48 am
Wd40 wrote: ↑Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:02 pm
truthhurts1 wrote: ↑Wed, 30 Nov 2022 2:57 pm
Something new I heard today is of your PR pending shows 4 lines then it’s a good chance else it shows 1 or 2 lines .. anyone knows bout this
I just noticed, my upload documents button is gone. I applied exactly 4 months ago.
Also 4 lines. It is going to be a rejection. The last 6-7 odd times it got rejected, it was like this exactly after 4/6/9 months. As if they just set a timer to reject.
Mine was rejected after exactly 6 months this time..
I am extremely frustrated to see people here only for 1-2 years with low income and no contributions to IRAS getting PR while Indian people like us struggling..
We should do community service and tell all indians to stop coming here..
Then maybe there is a chance we old timers get a chance for PR
What you think that they (ICA) should give priority to matters little. What matters is what they actually consider important.
What you see is a few cherry picked examples of Malaysian Chinese earning low salaries with modest tax contributions. What they see is people who fit right in and won't stick out like sore thumbs (in the eyes of local born citizens). Not to mention that there are also many in that group who are high earners which you conveniently overlooked because it doesn't fit your narrative.
While you feel frustrated at seeing lower paid individuals getting through, the local born folks used to be frustrated at seeing Indian PRs and new citizens who don't want to make any effort to integrate. This was back in the day when they gave out a good number of PRs to Indians and then faced public backlash, the common complaint against us was and still is what I mentioned above.
In the end, it's their country and their decision on who they want to let in and how they calibrate it. I'm sure you've read enough about it in these forums and probably come across the more hyberbolic variants in forums such as HWZ (specifically EDMW), so this should not come as a surprise.
PS - I personally know Indians from that first batch who got themselves PRs and some became citizens. Some are here for 20 years, some longer. I haven't met one who I can say is actually integrating in any way possible. I accept that we will never fit right in, there will always be differences. But imagine guys who still follow Indian politics actively till the extent that they keep bringing it up in conversations with local colleagues. They have little to talk about as far as local content (aka Singapore and the neighborhood) is concerned. In conversations, they endlessly talk about India - people here don't care and in fact don't want to be compared with countries like India. If you have lived here for 20 years and still don't get that, you still refer to India the country with its problems as "we" when you have a conversation with a Singaporean, it means that you have been living in an Indian bubble. This is not a diss against India or Indians but I'm just saying what I see. You see it with most other nationalities as well which is why there is always a simmering discontent when a large number of them congregate in a small part of a tiny country with such a large population overall. Then you can appreciate why the selection criteria here are not like Canada or Australia or the UK.
