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- GordonGekko
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I don't know any Caucs (I just realised the abbrevation is hilarious!) turned Singaporean personally but last year the Straits Times featured several who have decided to make Singapore their home, raised their kids in Singapore and they all seemed very happy (obviously though, as the unhappy ones wouldn't be here to be interviewed would they?).
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Why it does not happen more often (if ever) I think is due to requirement to give up one's old passport. I would happily take Singapore citizenship but I would not like to give up my old one, which is same as you have.GordonGekko wrote:Jaw: You have a right to an opinion, but your reasoning is weak.![]()
The rest of you: do you know any Caucasians turned Singaporean?
With a PR status in Singapore one can already stay and have essentially all the same opportunities than a citizen, so why would I give up something that does not really add anything (well a visa free travel to Indonesia seems to be the only benefit). Essentially passport for me is a traveling document that is needed to cross borders. I don't feel my identity depends on passport I carry.
Also if ever have kids they can benefit of two passports, easier to study or work in Europe. I might like singapore, my kids might have another opinion, so why limit their choice if I do not have to.
This makes a lot of sense to me. Why burn bridges?ProvenPracticalFlexible wrote:Why it does not happen more often (if ever) I think is due to requirement to give up one's old passport. I would happily take Singapore citizenship but I would not like to give up my old one, which is same as you have.GordonGekko wrote:Jaw: You have a right to an opinion, but your reasoning is weak.![]()
The rest of you: do you know any Caucasians turned Singaporean?
With a PR status in Singapore one can already stay and have essentially all the same opportunities than a citizen, so why would I give up something that does not really add anything (well a visa free travel to Indonesia seems to be the only benefit). Essentially passport for me is a traveling document that is needed to cross borders. I don't feel my identity depends on passport I carry.
Also if ever have kids they can benefit of two passports, easier to study or work in Europe. I might like singapore, my kids might have another opinion, so why limit their choice if I do not have to.
BINGO!! as a singaporean, I don't find myself having many special privileges compared to a PR. And who knows, the govt maybe 'forced' by circumstance to accept dual citizenship in time to come ..... even the old man mentioned that before since there are so many quitters recentlyProvenPracticalFlexible wrote:Why it does not happen more often (if ever) I think is due to requirement to give up one's old passport. I would happily take Singapore citizenship but I would not like to give up my old one, which is same as you have.GordonGekko wrote:Jaw: You have a right to an opinion, but your reasoning is weak.![]()
The rest of you: do you know any Caucasians turned Singaporean?
With a PR status in Singapore one can already stay and have essentially all the same opportunities than a citizen, so why would I give up something that does not really add anything (well a visa free travel to Indonesia seems to be the only benefit). Essentially passport for me is a traveling document that is needed to cross borders. I don't feel my identity depends on passport I carry.
Also if ever have kids they can benefit of two passports, easier to study or work in Europe. I might like singapore, my kids might have another opinion, so why limit their choice if I do not have to.

I don't know any Caucs (I just realised the abbrevation is hilarious!)






The citizenship, isn't really a problem for British Citizens, because even though it is renounced in Singapore to the Singapore authorities to get Singapore citizenship, it is none effective to the UK.
So one automatically gets a new passport, from UK if applied for! So yes its better to have two passports if your birth Country allows it. Even if they don't allow it, there is no reason to tell them!
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I my instincts say, that you are of Eurosian parentage, for some reason!GordonGekko wrote:PPF: my story seems to be a little different from yours, though. I've been living outside of Finland most of my life, and Sweden has never felt like home...

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