Ring the NS recruitment and tell them you are arriving, before hand...that way, you may not be arrested..The onus is on you to report in, you can ask them on the phone, if you can arrange the date, to turn up, after you have visited your relatives in Singapore. I doubt immigration will arrest you, but they may pass information onto the MOD police, who will eventually pick you up, if you don't infrom them before hand.byung_hun wrote:I actually thought about going back to Singapore in November to face NS. After all, I have not been there for more than 10 years. There is only one way to find out what will happen when I enter the country: I have to see it for myself my flying there.
I think that I am self-confident enough to face it. But I hope that everything will turn out well once I say that I am ready to serve NS and will not leave until it is completed !
Just in case you did not read an early post of mine; British passports state your place of birth and just for your reference I have just checked my old one issued in 1997 and shock horror that does too!neanderthal wrote:OP's point is that he now has a different name than his birth name and so should be able to enter Singapore under the new identity and as a British citizen. What he's worried about is that he will be arrested in Singapore as a Singapore citizen for not doing his NS.
How do you know he won't be, certain races are subject to more scrutiny than others.
Are we to expect that he, being a British of Chinese origin, will be singled out at the Singapore immigration checkpoint when he arrives and be asked for his birth certificate and/or renunciation papers in order to verify his citizenship/NS status? C'mon, give me a break!
Not a case of my word; what part of dual-nationality do you not understand? Singapore is a republic independent of the British Government.BHC won't help him? He won't know till he asks, will he? Unless you're from the BHC yourself, Plavt, why should we take your word that there is no point in asking them for help?
Ha ha, you are just being childish now.n fact, what I'd like to know is why is the OP putting his question about Singapore citizenship and Singapore national service to a bunch of ignorant, clueless, fear-mongering expats?
byung_hun wrote:wtf? It is really no problem to stay overseas without having an a valid exit permit??:D wow cool ! I always thought that it would be really harsh for those who are caught without one. well, I never had one hehe
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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched! Your old name, would have been removed from the register, when you left with your family at 9 years old, which is normal procedure, when you are no longer a resident.byung_hun wrote:hehe, I just gave MINDEF a call and they said that my old surname is no longer registered in Singapore. I mean, how can they actually know that I have changed my name, of course they are not aware of that. That means that my new surname Baker is not registered in Singapore any longer. They probably have Steven Lee registered but definitely not Steven Baker. Completely impossible.
byung_hun wrote:Well, to summarize it all:
I have left Singapore at age of 9 in 1997 (with Singapore passport, but it expired)
I never had an exit permit
I now have a British passport and I am a citizen of the UK, the passport only shows one nationality and that's the British one.
I have obtained a new surname.
By the way I did not mention my current name while I was talking to them, who would be that stupid ? ^^ I just asked whether that name is still registered there.
And I hope that everything will be settled when I go back to Singapore and tell them that I am ready for NS.
I have to do so since I really want to live and work back in Singapore.
No worries sunshine, I was just teasing you!who would be that stupid ? ^^ I just asked whether that name is still registered there.
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