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by rudolf » Mon, 07 Jun 2010 2:37 am
[quote="sundaymorningstaple"]My BiL, twice removed? - never could figure out relationships - My Wife's brother's wife's sister's husband (a Yank like myself) is a retired US DEA agent who worked out of Singapore for almost 15 years between Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand & Cambodia. He is now ownes a security firm here in Singapore (after he retired from the US Gov't DEA) I've been told by him that the level of cooperation and depth that the gahmen here goes when vetting people is huge. They have their own vetting teams in the Major countries to do background checks on each and every application. Often, that is why is takes so long to do some countries citizen's applications - lack of infrastructure and the need to do it all manually and often not without some grease in certain Asian countries - them's the one's that take 4 or 5 weeks.
Lying is not an option. You might get away with it initially, but just like the fraudlent degrees from Myanmar. Eventually they get found out. Late last year (I've mentioned it before) I lost two S pass holders who have been working for me for 6 months already when we were visited by a team of 3 MOM field agents who picked them up on sight and whisked them away immediately.[/quote]
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It has been my assumption all along that Singapore will have access to the same criminal database that the Canadians are given access to and it seems your comment reinforces that idea.
I would like to hear more about the two S Pass holders that were whisked away by the MOM field agents. What became of them? Were they fined, imprisoned, both, deported etc.? My mind set is not to lie but this board is not the first place that I have been given that suggestion. However the people that have offered that suggestion have no idea of what the consequences are. The best I have been able to figure from the web is there is a possibility of a $4,000-$15,000 fine and also the possibility of up to one year in prison.
I have always figured that would be my case if I lied. I would probably get in and get all set up only to be found out and lose everything and that is a total waste of time and energy! Not to mention drastically reinforcing the perception to everyone that you are still a criminal after all these years.
. Lets talk about 'admissibility' as that is the word the Canadians and the United States seem to use. For example here is a nice page that the Canadians have put up about inadmissibility to Canada.
