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. 

Congratulations!!! Welcome to the club ... but alas, it's a club I'm leaving soon.

Hope you leave on time to get to vote

Anyone here submitted PR application recently after 26th June? any information regarding to this document checklist ,  Additional: For Aged Parent applications only ?

Birth certificate/ household register (only for births not
registered in Singapore)

Are we required to submit parents birth certificate?

Wahhh! It'll be my first election anywhere ever if that were the case!

Vote for Oppo! You need to show dominance!

Frankly speaking, I'm hoping I don't have to vote if my citizenship application comes through before I leave for Australia. I find it meaningless, since I can't relate to any of the parties here (or back in Malaysia, for that matter).

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

If I don’t vote, apparently, I get my name struck off the voters’ roll but that’s all.

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

Wife’s Singaporean and she’s never voted before hahaha

Really? Didn't know that .. haha

As at December 2022, Singapore has 268,500 migrant domestic workers ( house maid )  , according to Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM).

I wonder how the economy in Johor Bahru will boom once the RTS is completed.

How many people live in Singapore?

They can support a bit JB economy.

But not too many......

Mostly around 1 millions citizens / residents of SG ++

Everyone knows the answer.



Singapore has a total population of 5.69 million.  [2024]

The city-state had 3.52 million Singaporean citizens and 0.52 million permanent residents, bringing the resident population to 4.04 million.
5.69 million - 4.04 million = 1.65 million

1.65 million is non-Resident. [ foreign employment in services ]

(mostly consisting of construction workers,

marine workers, 268,500 housemaids,

work permit holders, factory workers, and general workers,
with fewer S Pass and Employment Pass holders who are awaiting PR approval).
https://www.mom.gov.sg/foreign-workforce-numbers
Anyone have invest in Danga Bay or gelang patah property?

I have been saying this repeatedly .. I really doubt real/pure Singaporeans would actually buy or spend in JB. I hardly hear people on my side travelling to JB very frequent. Likely once or twice a year.

On the other hand, the ones that actually spend in JB are likely ex-malaysian or have a malaysian spouse or PR. Basically, these are the people who are killing JB. RTS benefits those living in JB more, not the Singaporeans.

So basically, prices will be inflated.

We can count on one hand the number of times we have been in JB…,

Haha .. I am guilty .. I just travelled out to JB yesterday. But, given the choice, I wouldn't do it.

I was totally horrified by the experience. I departed around 11 from my house, expecting the bus queue to be empty. Surprisingly it took me 1 hour just to board the bus, with snaking queues. I thought everyone would have left by 10. Maybe those who need to work OT or something. I salute them, for waking up early, going back late, repeat it daily.

When I arrived at JB it was about 1 already. Grab was dam expensive. Literally triple of the price that I always pay. So you earn triple, but you may have to pay triple of the price at times. In the end u pay more and sacrifice more time too.

Friday nights are often like that...

Sometimes on Saturday mornings 8am, people traveling from Singapore to Johor Bahru also face heavy traffic.
The bus lanes, motorcycle lanes, and car lanes are all crowded.

If you're traveling from Johor Bahru to Singapore, it's best to avoid Sundays between 10 AM and 8 PM.
I usually reach Woodlands Train Checkpoint at 7 AM on Saturday.
Actually, did you know you can take Bus 856 to Woodlands Train Checkpoint and walk inside the building to the customs passport machine there?

You don't need to take Bus 160, 170, or 950 to woodlands customs.

There are often long queues.