To the best of my understanding, you only lose Singapore citizenship if the Singapore government officially sends you some kind of notification. If the Singapore consulate refuses to renew your passport when you declare that you have acquired the citizenship of another country, it doesn't necessarily mean you are no longer a citizen (although without a passport you might end up only being a citizen in name).vangoh wrote:I'm a Singaporean by birth living and working in the US for about 20 years. I'm married with 2 beautiful kids. I'm 47 years old and I'm done with Singapore National Services 7 years ago.
Three years ago, when it was time to renew my green card, I decided to apply, and was granted US citizenship. Since US allow dual citizenship, I thought that would work out best for me instead of having to renew my green card every so often.
Recently, I found out that my Singapore passport ( which I used to get into US 10 years ago) is expiring in October. I cannot renew my passport because I no longer have a green card as I'm a citizen of the US. I also have to declare the I'm not granted citizenship by another country. Should I let my Singapore passport expire and if I need to, fly home with my US passport or should I risk losing my Singapore citizenship and renew my passport? What are the pros and cons.
Basically it is risk that you take when you try to outrun SG Gahmen.john_nyc_71 wrote: To the best of my understanding, you only lose Singapore citizenship if the Singapore government officially sends you some kind of notification. If the Singapore consulate refuses to renew your passport when you declare that you have acquired the citizenship of another country, it doesn't necessarily mean you are no longer a citizen (although without a passport you might end up only being a citizen in name).
Incorrect. Having dual passport after the age 21 is an offense under the immigration law. SG Gahmen only allow you to have UNO citizenship.ie SG. The onus is for you to renounce SG passport and keep US so that you will not fall into the wrong side of the law
Hence you have to decide and renounce which one when caught at border control.
Renewal of passport is a privilege for a citizen NOT a right under the consitution. So if you are not allowed to have your passport renewed, you have some boxes cross out.
BTW SG consulate do not do any renewal or issuance of passport. All submission are posted back to ICA SG for process
Yes you are a citizen of SG unless proven otherwise
I don't know if the immigration officers in Singapore will try to determine if someone entering on a foreign passport is also a Singapore citizen or not. There is a 2007 law that says that Singapore citizens have to enter Singapore on a Singapore passport. (http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/ ... 934-001856). Curiously enough, the law seems to acknowledge that there are plenty of Singapore citizens with dual citizenship. I don't know how/if this is enforced.
Correct on this issue. Please read the PDF downloaded form from ICA on application of passport under "Declaration and Consent" section whereby you have to declare if you have gained another citizenship. If you lied , you are committing a perjury.
Enforcement will be at border control or if you have being flagged for other offense which in turn lead to bigger issues
Either way, you run the risk of the Singapore government finding out about your US citizenship and deciding to take away your Singapore citizenship. I am guessing that this is less likely to happen entering Singapore on a US passport as opposed to trying to renew your Singapore passport and declaring that you have US citizenship. But it is only a guess.
A biometric passport, also known as an e-passport or ePassport, is a combined paper and electronic passport (hence the e-, as in e-mail) that uses biometrics to authenticate the identity of travelers. It uses contactless smart card technology, including a microprocessor chip (computer chip) and antenna (for both power to the chip and communication) embedded in the front or back cover, or center page, of the passport. Document and chip characteristics are documented in the International Civil Aviation Organisation's (ICAO) Doc 9303[1][2][3]. The passport's critical information is both printed on the data page of the passport and stored in the chip. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is used to authenticate the data stored electronically in the passport chip making it virtually impossible to forge when all security mechanisms are fully and correctly implemented.
The currently standardized biometrics used for this type of identification system are facial recognition, fingerprint recognition, and iris recognition. These were adopted after assessment of several different kinds of biometrics including retinal scan. The ICAO defines the biometric file formats and communication protocols to be used in passports. Only the digital image (usually in JPEG or JPEG2000 format) of each biometric feature is actually stored in the chip. The comparison of biometric features is performed outside the passport chip by electronic border control systems (e-borders). To store biometric data on the contactless chip, it includes a minimum of 32 kilobytes of EEPROM storage memory, and runs on an interface in accordance with the ISO/IEC 14443 international standard, amongst others. These standards ensure interoperability between different countries and different manufacturers of passport books.Please read and understand. Since SG is under US Waiver Program, the IRIS has been added onto the embedded chip of your passport
From this and other boards, I've heard all sorts of rumours and I have no way of determining how authentic they are. These include
(1) being allowed to renew one's Singapore passport even if one declares that one has acquired another citizenship
False. this is not true
(2) being forced to renounce one citizenship or the other and/or fined when caught entering Singapore on a foreign passport
(3) accidentally presenting a foreign passport when leaving Singapore, leading to confusion (immigration officer cannot find entry stamp). When the Singapore passport was produced, person was simply let through with no action taken
(4) showing up at ICA in Singapore with a foreign passport and being told there is no deadline to renounce one's Singapore citizenship
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