ID Card

[makale]

I Singapore the same as Hong Kong in relation to having to carry and ID card at all times? If so, how long do you have to apply for one, once you have landed.

Cheers me Dears

I used to be dyslexic but i am KO now

[x9200]

For short therm visits your ID is either your passport or the passport and a document confirming your legal status (LTSVP, EP etc. - use google). For the citizens and permanent residents there are different IDs.
I expect formally you need to carry such documents with you what regardless the legal requirements seems to be also a common sense.

[sundaymorningstaple]

If you are here on a Social Visit Pass, you only need to carry some form of identification, e.g., passport (not advisable), driver's license or some other form of identification preferably with a photo affixed to it.

If you are here on any other type of LTVP or Dependent's pass you will be issued a special laminated pass identifying you and the type of pass it is. You must always carry it.

If you have gained residency here via an Employment Visa, e.g., Work Permit, S, Q, P1, P2, or PEP you should carry that pass.

If you have gained either PR or Citizenship, you must carry the NRIC Pass (either blue - PR; or, pink - Citizen)

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[makale]

Many thanks for the info.

[JR8]

If you are here on a Social Visit Pass, you only need to carry some form of identification, e.g., passport (not advisable), driver's license or some other form of identification preferably with a photo affixed to it.

If you are here on any other type of LTVP or Dependent's pass you will be issued a special laminated pass identifying you and the type of pass it is. You must always carry it.

If you have gained residency here via an Employment Visa, e.g., Work Permit, S, Q, P1, P2, or PEP you should carry that pass.

If you have gained either PR or Citizenship, you must carry the NRIC Pass (either blue - PR; or, pink - Citizen)

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Never really got it, but then I am British 'I am a man, I am not a number!'

How liberating to hail from one of the few countries that appears to still not have ID cards. And how liberating that the new government abandoned the totalitarian plan to introduce one. You don't even have to carry a driving license when driving in the UK... now that's cool. You have to in SG but they're much worse drivers....

Why do you always have to carry ID in Singapore? I thought the concept of being able to 'present it [i.e. a driver's license, or equiv. id] within a reasonable time at a police station' carrried over from the UK to SG.

If I'm down at the pool in my Speedos, do I have to tuck one in, just in case?

[nakatago]

If I'm down at the pool in my Speedos, do I have to tuck one in, just in case?

It doesn't even have to be that extreme a case. For example, carrying an official ID while running could ruin the ID. My EP is still just a piece of laminated card (I didn't make it to the point where they're issuing plastic cards already) and it's falling apart already and it just stays in my wallet!

[x9200]

'I am a man, I am not a number!'

So you do not register your child at birth in GB?

[x9200]

It doesn't even have to be that extreme a case. For example, carrying an official ID while running could ruin the ID. My EP is still just a piece of laminated card (I didn't make it to the point where they're issuing plastic cards already) and it's falling apart already and it just stays in my wallet!

I don't think you will be harshly punished for not having your ID with you. I expect nothing will happen if this is your first offence except some waste of time and possible embarrassment. If repeated you probably will be fined - a small administrative fee for wasting time of the authorities.

[nakatago]

It doesn't even have to be that extreme a case. For example, carrying an official ID while running could ruin the ID. My EP is still just a piece of laminated card (I didn't make it to the point where they're issuing plastic cards already) and it's falling apart already and it just stays in my wallet!

I don't think you will be harshly punished for not having your ID with you. I expect nothing will happen if this is your first offence except some waste of time and possible embarrassment. If repeated you probably will be fined - a small administrative fee for wasting time of the authorities.

No authority figure has stopped me--or any of the others I see getting exercise--yet when I'm zipping around the neighborhood. I expect them to use common sense in those cases.

Here's a funny anecdote from Japan and this is a true story, I swear.

A bunch of colleagues--a German guy, someone who looks Indian and two Chinese dudes--were invited by their Japanese counterparts for a party after work. After the party, these four decided to walk to the train station. So, almost midnight, you have these four international guys, walking and talking through--inadvertently--a posh neighborhood.

A cop saw them and requested to see some ID. The two showed theirs, the other two forget theirs in their hotel rooms. The cop simply wouldn't let this pass and he really wanted to see their ID. What could they do, right? So, what the cop did was call some backup and eventually a squad car came. They all got in and went to the hotel so they could fetch their passports to show to the cops. The cops saw their visas--they were valid, of course--were satisfied, bid them a good night and drove off.

Free ride home.

[x9200]

No authority figure has stopped me--or any of the others I see getting exercise--yet when I'm zipping around the neighborhood.

There are places in Singapore where you will be stopped and ask to show your ID and I am not talking about painting graffiti inside a security area
I go from time to time off the beaten track with my camera and was checked already twice.

[JR8]

'I am a man, I am not a number!'

So you do not register your child at birth in GB?

You do, that gets you a birth certicate. As far as I am aware it does not carry a number. I think I last needed to use mine applying for a passport (7 years ago)