salmanucit wrote:> Are you weighing if it's worth becoming a citizen
Yes, it is right of anyone to weigh this. If I am here, I am contributing to the development of Singapore and getting paid for this (Its is a win-win situation and not like someone is stealing the wealth of Singapore and taking to his home country, if you think rationaly and putting your patriotism aside)
>I nominate this thread to be stickied and become required reading for every "masters" holder wondering why their PR applications aren't getting approved.
It has nothing to do with PR approval or rejection, again if you think rationaly without being patriot.
Salman
Dear Salman, don't take zzm's words personally. And patriotism is not the issue at hand at the moment anyway.
You'd probably be aware by now the grouses of PR/citizenship aired by the locals (and amplified during recent GE). You may or may not be part of that statistic, but there have been far too many PRs or new-citizens who do have ulterior motives of PR-ship and subsequently citizenship and milked their way through and then leaving this place high and dry.
And your post, inadvertently, have raised many red flags here.
Until someone expert of subject matter comes up to answer your questions, my only answer is this:
1. Whatever privilege you have enjoyed whilst being a PR/citizen of this country, you have to
be prepared to pay back to the country upon renouncing. HDB, scholarship bond, etc. The less you take from them, the less you have to worry about paying them back.
2. By how much (or how little), I do not have a confirmed answer in my hand at the moment. Confirmed answers are best from ICA themselves (where changes are subjected to them as well from time to time).
Just a pure logic of give-and-take.
