Hi, I am a Singapore PR and my wife is on Employment Pass. We are expecting a male child and he will be born in Singapore. We want to know if our child will be on a dependent pass or PR by default. Please advise
Your child will initially be on neither. You will be given a Singapore birth cert which states your child has no rights to Singapore citizenship and you will also be given a detailed set of instructions on what to do.
You basically have to apply for a passport first for your child from your own embassy. Once you have that you then apply to the ICA for PR or whatever status you want for your child. If you are having a boy then my advice is that you don't bother with PR and instead apply for a Long Term Visit Pass and this way you defer the issue of PR & NS until you know where you're going to be in x years time. If you apply for PR straightaway, the records can't be undone for this. Whereas if your child has never been a PR then you can apply for this anytime in the future. I've done this for both my boys and there's no issue. When they reach schooling age you convert the Long Term Pass to a Student Pass.
