Wind In My Hair wrote:Sounds complicated. The only reason I can think of when a person needs permission to leave the country is when he is an undischarged bankrupt. Without any specifics I can only speculate on a few possible explanations.
Perhaps the parents have joint custody and if she is thinking of re-locating with the children and the ex-husband objects then it is the children who have to stay, not her, though she may feel compelled to stay to be with the kids.
Or the children and her share the exact same passport as one entity, and because the children are not allowed to leave, the passport has been held and therefore because it is exactly the same passport, she cannot leave either. If this is the case she may have to talk to her embassy to apply for separate passports.
Another possibility is that their joint assets have been frozen pending a court order on how these are to be divided, and she is required to stay until the assets have been satisfactorily liquidated.
Some countries also require their own citizens to apply for a visa before returning (I think Taiwan is one) and it could be that the problem is on the home country front and not the Singapore front.
I cannot see why the immigration authorities here would want to keep her since it sounds like she came on a dependent pass based on her husband's job, and if anything a divorce would result in her having no official reason to stay in Singapore and I would think it more likely that she have to leave than stay.
Anyway, there are too few details to make an intelligent guess, but these are some possibilities that came to mind.
We're in Singapore remember? Equality of law? Guess that would depend on your family surnameBafana wrote:otherwsie where is the equality of law?
intimacy?Wind In My Hair wrote:No, I don't know. This intimacy seems to be one-way as I cannot claim to understand you at all.hibri2 wrote:as you know, Wind In My Hair...
Women's charter . . blah blah blahBafana wrote:Know your very impassioned with this but got to raise the obvious point.
Why should they send them all home? Whose rights are greater? The husbadnsa or the wifes?
In my mind the kids rights are most important and that's why I suspect a court will need to look into the matter in greater detail before deciding eitehr way. Everyone should be held innocent until proven guilty even the guilty otherwsie where is the equality of law?
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