Oops, you’re right, I misread knwong’s post 😂

LinkZ you may need to prepay $4k first, but once you arrive in SG together and reach SHN hotel, explain to the check in staff to share room, then can apply to MOM/ICA/whoever to refund the excess $1400.

Note that if you really suay you might get assigned value hotel or ibis styles or some other cui 15sqm room, if so you’ll have to balance that $1400 vs your sanity lol.

No, unlucky air arrivals get assigned to budget hotels too.

Scroll back a few (or many) pages and see ba, I recall there was some discussion that ICA allow photocopy submission of docs now by signing some extra document/declaration.

The unluckiest dude on that group so far got 13sqm room at value hotel Balestier that didn’t even have a window

For entrance from Malaysia no.

As far as I can tell from following those FB groups, none, it’s totally up to your luck. Or if you have serious* medical conditions requiring particular type of room.

* I remember ICA or some other agency posted somewhere that they won’t consider allergies or claustrophobia all those sort of things for special arrangements.

The previous one I took L and it was too small
New one I took XL and it’s way too big
Disposables for life

Huh. Just read IRAS properly and you will know. https://www.iras.gov.sg/irashome/Individual...es--Donations-/

I am 15 years experience but not manager, cheap unskilled labour every year just eat 1-2% increment, now cukup makan ~5k a month.

Yes, there is mechanism for asking for SHN payment waiver. But I’m not sure how it works. Google shows this form https://form.gov.sg/#!/5ee5e131e5e49200119cacba that says you need an ICA officer to recommend you for waiver, but casual google doesn’t seem to have the exact process.

This post has been edited by deodorant: Mar 31 2021, 05:13 PM

Gonna wait and see if the bubble even takes off or not this time lol. Now got new ICA and hospital clusters liao…

Even if can get EP approved, the entry approval is difficult + long queue cos of covid. So a company that wants to hire foreigners from offshore can literally need to wait up to 6 mths (depending on country) for him/her to come … most companies won’t want to wait that long except in exceptional situations.

This post has been edited by deodorant: May 8 2021, 06:32 PM

“Pathetic” relative to what? Your own expectation? Cos who knows that is already good for your industry which means you move where also will have the same problem.

As in, already have EP (or some other long term residency) but SG side still hasn't given you entry approval for 4 months (and counting)? Damn that sucks.

It’s not that bad actually. Malaysia started late but ramped up a lot. 1 mth ago 17% fully jabbed, now 41%, they should be around 70-80+% mark by end of the year. The question for CNY2022 then is whether the number of cases still tens of thousands. If under 2-3k a day it could be good news for travel (Germany is 5-8k a day now and we have quarantine free travel both ways).

This post has been edited by deodorant: Aug 24 2021, 05:52 PM

Since we are in so called endemic living now / soon, anyone with any recent data points for getting entry approval for family via familial ties lane (for the SPRs among us)?

Nothing is really banned, it’s just it has to adhere to certain weight and top speed restrictions, and different types are not allowed on certain paths (example electric bikes not allowed on footpath, escooters not allowed on roads).

My place 2 adults 1 child roughly $200 all in (electricity water gas for cooking). 24/7 got aircon on.

UBS Prices & Earnings report has excluded SG for many years now but previously they had (relative) price levels as SG = 62.9 and KL = 28.2.

This implies that sgd4000 in SG has roughly the same purchasing power as myr5600 in KL.

Anecdotally for me having made an early-mid career switch from KL to SG certainly in isolation, myr7500 in KL would give me a more comfortable life than sgd4000 here.