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Open a bank account with Dependant Pass

Post by Benfromhere » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 5:15 pm

Dear All,

I am a Dependant Pass holder and would like to open a personal bank account. So far, I notice that if you’re on a dependant’s pass, banks will only allow you a joint account with your spouse. Do you have some exception in mind? I mean would you know some banks in Singapore which, as an exception, allow a Dependant Pass holder to have his own bank (vs. joint account with spouse). Thanks so much in advance.

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Ben.

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Post by joram » Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:41 pm

Yep Ben ...
I did hv my own acct when I was in DP. That was way back in 2004. I had my a/c with POSB. I 'm not sure if all the rules & stuff are still the same. But when I got married & moved to SG, If am not wrong I think my Spouse EP ID was jus enough to open an a/c but I think their was some min amt which we had to maintain. Am not sure whether it was 100 or 500sgd thou :roll: I think u can open .....try ur luck ....

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Post by carlsum1986 » Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:44 pm

joram wrote:Yep Ben ...
I did hv my own acct when I was in DP. That was way back in 2004. I had my a/c with POSB. I 'm not sure if all the rules & stuff are still the same. But when I got married & moved to SG, If am not wrong I think my Spouse EP ID was jus enough to open an a/c but I think their was some min amt which we had to maintain. Am not sure whether it was 100 or 500sgd thou :roll: I think u can open .....try ur luck ....
500sgd with posb

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Post by asia singapore » Sun, 26 Dec 2010 1:46 am

My wife had no problem to open up personal bank accounts with DBS and UOB back in 2009.

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Post by ttujess » Sun, 26 Dec 2010 8:42 pm

I am here on a DP, and opened my own checking acct at Standard Chartered with no hassles. Just took my passport and DP card. I am working with a LOC, but I didn't even need to bring that with me - just gave them the company's name and contact info.

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Post by Strong Eagle » Sun, 26 Dec 2010 8:58 pm

asia singapore wrote:My wife had no problem to open up personal bank accounts with DBS and UOB back in 2009.
Why are you responding to six month old posts?

Especially when you are posting from Turkey?

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Post by asia singapore » Sun, 26 Dec 2010 9:11 pm

Strong Eagle,

I did not see any problem to write something when I had something to say. Sorry if I missed a forum rule about posting to very old forum items, i will be careful about this.

I really do not understand what the problem is with my location. I am in a 1 year long project here in my homeland and will be back in February, should I be present in Singapore to post here ?

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Post by Strong Eagle » Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:18 pm

asia singapore wrote:Strong Eagle,

I did not see any problem to write something when I had something to say. Sorry if I missed a forum rule about posting to very old forum items, i will be careful about this.

I really do not understand what the problem is with my location. I am in a 1 year long project here in my homeland and will be back in February, should I be present in Singapore to post here ?
You join Dec 20. You make 4 posts, 2 to old threads. You have your blog featured in your sig line. Hard to tell if you want to be a member of this community or you are just posting to flog your blog for SEO purposes. You wouldn't be the first.

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Post by asia singapore » Mon, 27 Dec 2010 1:34 am

I see. You are right. It looks definitely the second.

I prefer warming up to the community rather than SEO so it will be better to keep my blog out for a while.

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