mom2011 wrote:I prefer for him to defer until 21 pending renunciation because we have no plan to move back to Singapore.
In the meantime, we don't plan to give up singapore citizenship ourselves if we don't have to. even if we want, it will be quite a few years before we can apply for one.
In order to make this plan set in motion, all of you need to acquire the foreign citizenship asap. As you are PR of a foreign country , the protection given to you by the foreign country is under the purview of SG Gahmen. Hence if you give up SG Citizenship for your child, he becomes stateless.
PR does not mean you are the citizen of that country. PR can be ceased or denied by any country if you are found to be undesirable immigrant.
You cannot only renounce your child SG citizenship only . Mindef does not take this kindly and your child request for deferment till 21 prior renounciation maybe denied. It has to be in a family nucleus
It is either all of you or NONE at all.
It is either here or there. You cannot take the best of both world and not having your child serve NS. It does not work that way.
If your foreign citizenship can only be acquired in five years time then I think the chance of your child to defer to 21 is almost impossible.
You can decide to make your child avoid NS totally and not follow the protocol set by Mindef but do not let him set one foot in SG as he will be classified as NS defaulters which will be 3 years jail or 10 K fine or both
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.Yahoo !!!