Advice on Applying for PR & LTVP for My Wife While Residing Overseas

[financepil]

Hello everyone,

I am a 40-year-old male Singapore Citizen currently working in the US. I am planning to apply for PR and LTVP for my wife, as I saw the option when I logged into my ICA account.

A bit of background: My wife is 33 years old, holds a BSc (Hons) and an MBA, and has worked as a lecturer. She has never held any passes in Singapore, and both of us are currently residing overseas. We plan to return to Singapore by the end of this year, and I’m considering applying for PR and LTVP for her as part of the same application.

I was employed in Singapore until December 2022 with a basic pay of 7K SGD and have been contributing to CPF from 2010 to 2022. I also have sufficient Medisave, Special Account balances, and I own an HDB flat already. Currently, my pay is around 9.5K SGD.

Given this, do you think it’s advisable to apply for my wife’s PR and LTVP as a same application while we are still residing overseas? Are there any important considerations or potential challenges I should be aware of?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

[PNGMK]

What's your race? What's hers?

Can't blame you for fleeing.

[hanana]

We are about the same case with me being the sponsor and having lived abroad in lieu of work. We decided to just go for the pr route as it was what we wanted in the future given bank accounts etc. It took about 5mths for a reply and they issued a 5y rep after that. We are still working abroad but would move back home once the job ends here. We submitted the usual salary slips and uni certs when applying. There wasn't much questions asked for other than the standard marriage cert for each side. If you registered ur marriage in Singapore then i guess it's easier. Do you plan to use ur Singapore address for the application?

[MOCHS]

If you read this forum, there have been cases of people applying LTVP when overseas. Then they relocate back to SG while LTVP is processing before LTVP is approved. You need to show ICA that you are physically in SG with a job in SG. Gotta show you wanna settle here for the long term, no?

I highly doubt PR will be given to someone who isn’t physically in SG unless their occupation is super duper rare that SG needs such people.

Don’t be tempted by the 2-in-1 LTVP-PR application or else the processing time will be based on the longest process aka the PR.

One of the topics here has someone who applied for the 2-in-1 and is still waiting for an outcome...

[hanana]

I guess being a SC you can sponsor ur wife but the immediate challenge i can think of is which address would you use, US or local one. More importantly after ur wife gets her pr and rep she soon has to decide whether she wants to be a citizen

[PurpleSGgirl]

Hello everyone,

I am a 40-year-old male Singapore Citizen currently working in the US. I am planning to apply for PR and LTVP for my wife, as I saw the option when I logged into my ICA account.

A bit of background: My wife is 33 years old, holds a BSc (Hons) and an MBA, and has worked as a lecturer. She has never held any passes in Singapore, and both of us are currently residing overseas. We plan to return to Singapore by the end of this year, and I’m considering applying for PR and LTVP for her as part of the same application.

I was employed in Singapore until December 2022 with a basic pay of 7K SGD and have been contributing to CPF from 2010 to 2022. I also have sufficient Medisave, Special Account balances, and I own an HDB flat already. Currently, my pay is around 9.5K SGD.

Given this, do you think it’s advisable to apply for my wife’s PR and LTVP as a same application while we are still residing overseas? Are there any important considerations or potential challenges I should be aware of?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

I am a Singaporean citizen (38 yrs old) and I live with my husband (39 yrs old) in Canada. My situation is somewhat similar to yours.

Just sharing some background information. I moved to Canada in 2023, with some income for the same year in Singapore. I got married in Canada on Jan 2024. He is a Canadian born Chinese. The first and only time he went to Singapore was in Feb 2024 during CNY to visit my family and friends for a week. We have no children.

We were initially concern about being newly weds and that the PR application might not be approved. However, we really wanted to live SG (my parents are still in SG). We took the chance by submitting for both the PR and LTVP combo application just in case he did not get approved for PR at least with the LTVP + LOC he could find a job.

I submitted the PR and LTVP + LOC application for him in Dec 2024 just before Christmas. We received his IPA for PR yesterday. I guess we were very lucky to get an approval within 3 months. As we are currently still in Canada, my only concern is that the IPA is only valid for 2 months. So I would say try to plan it out because you never know how the timeline or how soon the approval might take. We were initially thinking it is going to take 6 months (or more). But we have plans to move back mid this year.

I would suggest that you can just give it a try. U might end up being lucky too

[MOCHS]

Interesting, first time seeing PR approved while sponsor and applicant are both overseas. Only heard of one such case that was mentioned by admin SMS.

[hanana]

Well, the crux really is the rep and what you plan to do when it's up for renewal. Do you want to move back, be a citizen or what not. Being Singaporeans as long as we can prove that we can support who we sponsor i don't think there's an issue. Alternatively i don't think the authorities expect us to move back jobless and be a burden, pr or not.

[Xplorer16]

I applied for LTVP for my wife in case we would return to Singapore (I’m Singaporean citizen) in the future. Our marriage was registered in Singapore earlier in the same year, and we didn’t do any pre-marriage assessment.

We uploaded our employment confirmation letters, pay-slips from UK-based employers and UK tax letters. 4 weeks later, ICA asked us explain why my wife needed a LTVP when we both were residing in the UK. We shared that we were interested in moving back to Singapore in the 2-3 year horizon as my company had an office in Singapore. I also cited the EDB representative in London (who ran the Singapore Global Network and encouraged Singaporeans based in EMEA to return home in the future). About a week later, her LTVP was approved and ICA accepted the medical examination report from a UK-registered GP. We relocated back to Singapore a year later with my employer. I applied PR for my wife via the new online system while in Singapore, and she got her PR 6 months later.

A word of caution: if you combine PR and LTVP in a single application, the decision timeline will follow that of the PR application which could be a lot longer than the 6-week timeline of LTVP application. If you are moving back to a Singapore in the short term, it’s better to submit separate PR and LTVP applications.