You're right on this. Everyone thinks that coming over is better, but in fact it may not suit for everyone. Some may prefer a merit based environment, some may prefer to flatter others, some may prefer a laidback life.

Do what's best for yourself.

You can visit many national parks or the botanic gardens.

You can also visit Pulau Ubin, （Every year on Wesak Day, there is a free boat service from Singapore to Pulau Ubin and back due to the temple celebration.)

Pulau Kusu (which has a special temple celebration event for 30 days in the lunar month of September),

and St. John's Island.

There are many museums available as well, such as the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall and the Peranakan Museum.

https://www.nparks.gov.sg/

SG is small. Not being an outdoorsy person, I'm left with going shopping or perhaps drive to Ikea Tampines. 

Talking about returning to MY, they changed rule again for MM2H. Doubt it matters to you or those of us not intending to retire back in MY.

IT Sector. The thing is I only have the contract with revised salary. If payslip with latest pay is required, then i would need to wait for 3 more months.

My dilemma is should I email them with the new annex form, and risk my application being re-evaluate again from start, end up waiting for another few months.

Thanks for the suggestion. I guess ill wait out this week then decide whether to drop them an email. Hopefully CPF has an update within few days..

I just submitted mine this week.  Seems they have re-vamp the application since 26th June 2024.  Now, no more forms to download; everything is fill-up online and we just provide the employment letter from employer, no more annex A form. The rest is just upload photo, certs, payslip.

After submission, there are only options to ; Download submitted form (valid for a few days after submission), update Employment details and Withdraw submission.

What kind of number assigned ? How do i check this? CPF website i only see my FIN number though. Is this the one?

Yeah no news is good news for now. Hahaha.

Updates:

PR application turned 4 lines on 1st July 2024.
Received email notification on 7th July that there had been changes to PR application status.
Logged into ICA and PR application changed to Approved!

Noticed that the PR IPA is dated 4th July, which means PR status is actually approved 4 days after 4 lines appeared.

The email from ICA actually gave me a heart attack as it only mentioned changes in status, without stating success or fail. The reason for that is my EP was cancelled on 7th, as i will be issued a new EP on 8th. For a moment I thought my PR application was rejected immediately because my EP was cancelled. That few minutes to login into ICA website I was feeling so anxious.

Now i have some confusion too. I applied PR under company A, now I have just changed to company B, but to complete the formalities I require my employer letter stating I am employed with them, but i didnt update ICA on the change of employer.

It seems like ICA is pretty busy, my appointment with them is last day of the month. And the employer letter cant be more than 2 weeks from my appointment date. I probably should write email to them about this and see what is their reply on my case.

Lately lyn forumers macam easy 10/10 pr approval 💯💯
Congrats

Noticed also pr approval came in there about near current workpass expiry

Soon this thread is going to easily exceed 50 or 100 pages.

But hardly on lowyat. I think mostly on xhs. Haha ..

Updates :

Managed to secure a slot last Friday for PR formalities.

Things to note :

1. Your passport size photo cannot be the same as the one you used for your PR application. ICA office asked me to get a new photo taken, there are few shops behind ICA building at residential HDB block.

2. They accept old EP card with previous employer. As my case was a bit special, PR approved while I was still employed by previous employer, and I was converted to permanent staff at employer B during the week of my PR formalities appointment. The EP card with new employer has not reached me yet, but ICA officer did not insist to wait for the new card before processing my PR formalities.

3. Another special case for me is that I was not required to undergo medical checkup with MOM for my pre-employment previously. So MOM did not have a record of my medical, i was asked to get a medical checkup at assigned clinic, near Aljunied MRT.

Finally got everything sorted out by 1 PM. Now waiting for IC collection. 

Hope you leave on time to get to vote

Vote for Oppo! You need to show dominance!

Eventually u have to cast your vote. Not now, likely 5 years down the road.

Is it? I thought u would be warned or something. Voting seems mandatory in sg, unlike in malaysia.

Really? Didn't know that .. haha