LPR

[My Hero]

There seems to be many different views and methods to obtain LPR, some say agents required , , some no agents, some say information is out there some say they can find it, can somebody  finally put some of these requests to rest...i guess no one wnats to pay an agent a huge amount of $ for LPR so how does one doit on thge CHEAP?

[guessing]

Dunno, but I doubt the answer will be found on some random internet message board post.  

[What's LPR?]

Can someone shed some light here?

[My LPR]

What??   Have they recently changed the rules for an LPR? I got mine in 2004 while still in the US.  There was no middleman company.  I sent all my documents through the San Francisco embassy.  It took about 6 weeks.

[canadianEh]

Shedding some light:
LPR is like the backdoor to getting permanent residence status in singapore. After your LPR application has been approved, you will be given an in-principal approval for permanent residence in Singapore under the Landed Permanent Residence Scheme. The in-principal approval is valid anywhere from 6 mos to 2 years. During this period, you are required to take up full-time employment in Singapore in order to be granted full permanent residence status.

Before relocating to Sg from Canada, I phoned up the Singapore Consulte in Vancouver. They advised me that the only two ways to get PR in Sg was to either find employment first and then apply for PR or else marry a Singaporean! Ha. I only found out about the LPR scheme through a friend who had already done it. She also had to go through an agency. Advice: make sure you have all the supporting documents in place before you submit your application to ensure speedy processing. Also, the S$1500 processing fee is non-refundable should your application be rejected or if your application is incomplete...

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[curious carl]

CanadianEH,

Are you ethnically chinese?  Just curious.  I have encountered no one other than ethnic Chinese that have rec'd LPR.

[canadianEh]

Yes, but believe me, I had to go through a lot of rigamaroll to prove it. My application was delayed for almost 2 months. As soon as I got the documentation, ICA approved my status in less than a week.

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