This frankly must happen pretty frequently as many nations got 90 days as a standard entry SVP. As a matter of fact my not yet then wife got an extension of the 90 visa at the counter in ICA when she was waiting for her LTSVP to be approved.beppi wrote:I have never heard of SVP renewals beyond 90 days.
No one is going to advocate border-hopping or doing visa-runs solely for the purpose and intention of extending your stay in Singapore. That is clearly against the spirit of the law.melissasvn wrote:is that possible if take a trip to malaysia and come back Singapore to extend the SVP? i heard from many ppl said so but still wonderring that is illigal
JR8 - I think you got your posters confused. Melissasvn is the lady who is trying to get an LTVP to a husband with a low income. Melissa - stick to your own posts please.JR8 wrote:No one is going to advocate border-hopping or doing visa-runs solely for the purpose and intention of extending your stay in Singapore. That is clearly against the spirit of the law.melissasvn wrote:is that possible if take a trip to malaysia and come back Singapore to extend the SVP? i heard from many ppl said so but still wonderring that is illigal
You've already been given the very best advice: Go and speak to ICA. They are reasonable people and will try and help you.
p.s. Be prepared for them to ask you some questions like how you can afford to stay in a hotel for 4.5 months. Why neither of you appear to be employed. Why you didn't simply get the applicable visa in the first place, and so on.
selenge wrote:Thank you all very much! this was definitely very helpful.
Considering your advise and after doing some deep thinking about all the risks of our options here's what we think we will do:
1. The documents have already been submitted to the ICA through the hospital. We should hear back from them tomorrow. The hospital usually takes care of this and they act as the local sponsor with pregnant international patients so thats why we did it through them and didn't personally go to ICA. However, if we get bad news, we can definitely go down there and try to explain our situation again. BTW, are we allowed to just go down to ICA after a denial of extension and try to convince otherwise? Or were you guys talking about how we should have gone there personally to submit the application in the first place?
No problem with going to ICA and also your approach is reasonable. I don't think there would be a major benefit applying in person. What you want to know is what they think. They can be flexible and reasonable. A hospital is a well recognized body so the application process handled by them is also a positive thing.
2. Now, if we get an answer that says my husband's visit pass was not extended, we have decided he will go back home for about a month and come back closer to the due date. Although this is not ideal since I will be here alone and very pregnant not to mention the additional airfare, we figured it is still better than trying our luck border hopping. Especially since even if we get lucky once, my husband would need to extend again after 30 days and at that point it might look too suspicious to the ICA officers and we will risk not having him around for the actual birth and first month of the baby. So all in all, I guess having him around for the birth/first month of baby is far more important than having him with me now. Besides, if I am understanding you guys correctly, an ICA officer at the border and an ICA officer for when we apply for extension will look for the same things and if you leave luck out of the equation, if one officer denies it, theoretically the other one will too. And we don't want to try our luck, we just want to do things the correct way.
It's actually nothing different from majority of the other countries. It is always based on the opinion of the receiving officer. They have to judge what are your husband's real intention on prolonging his stay here. If they would be fully convinced he is here for the delivery and nothing else is going on I am pretty sure his extension could be granted. The problem is that they never can be sure and is difficult to judge on the spot.
Another thing you could try is to get a letter from the hospital backuping the role of your husband, perhaps with the opinion of a doctor that this important for your emotional wellbeing to have his supportive presence during these last months of your pregnancy. ICA is not bind by such opinions but again this works towards making his case stronger.
Thank you all again for your inputs, and if it seems like I missed something please do let me know. I am in general finding this forum to be extremely helpful and have been reading many other useful threads. i will try to start contributing as well.
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