enslaved wrote:What is the approval rate for citizenship? I mean, what is the ratio of number of success to number of applicants? Have any idea?
Does male-child from previous marriage count for points in my favour?
If the house-hold income's large share is my spouse's (already a citizen) does it count still in my favour?
And one more question, which I asked earlier an year ago, but not in the following form: I work abroad, and will return to Singapore one year before the REP expiry, and will take up a job that would pay me only about barely 4.5K. Will it help? I can't get higher in academics.
The other negatives are, I don't have a flat yet as my previous wife snatched it from me for good, and the other is, may be my race which is Indian, and one more: I got PR only 2.333 years ago.
I have other positive points, like PHD degree in engineering, singaporean wife, and high CPF (contributing voluntarliy to the maximum limit per annum set by CPF board.)
I think you are not eligible to apply for Singapore citizenship. In the form they ask if you are away from Singapore in the past 5 years preceding the application for a total of 1 year or more (they count all your trips), if you tick yes, you are out, it is similar to the option where they ask if you are sentenced for more than 2 years, if you tick yes, you are gone unless you can prove something very exceptional and depend on their mercy. If you are working abroad you will not meet the physical residency requirements and your application will be turned down. You have to return to Singapore and be present physically here so that you are not absence for more than 1 year in the last 5 year then you can apply. This is from what I understand when going to submit my application since I was away for 3 months during my PR, but sadly I was not eligible based on my qualification and salary as well as not staying in Singapore long enough
