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theblackhole

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don't think so :o:o:o

you are right brother. it will be a disaster to trust your wife to another man,esp when you wife is a hottie!!!

even if a woman trusts her best girl friend to her husband, it is also a big big mistake. she will eventually lose her husband too!
it works both ways. this is life.
 

OverTheCounter

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Tell your good friend to look for Yaacob Ibrahim. He is a helpful minister and can assist in manpower related issues over and above his current portfolio.


Daphne is a Singapore-borned Singaporean staying in Australia. She graduated from NUS with LLB (Honours). She also has an Australian citizenship.

Daphne holds a Singapore passport and an Australian passport. She has renewed her Singaporean passport twice. Both times in her application form she was asked whether she holds another country's passport ..bothe times she answered yes..both times, her passport was renewed without complications. Recently, she wanted to renew her passport for the third time. this time, she was told by the counter staff that she cant hold dual citizenship and that she has to renounce her Singapore citizenship. Daphne objected and told the staff that she had renewed twice without complications and that it's her birthright to be Singapore Citizen and she will not renounce her Singapore Citizenship. The staff had no answer to her and referred her to her supervisor. The supervisor told Daphne that the law requires her to renounce her citizendship and sell her HDB flat.

Daphne insisted that she will not renounce her citizenship nor sell her HDB flat and challenged him and ICA to revoke her Singapore citizenship. The supervisor was stuck.

Daphne has written to TCH regarding her situation and requested him to look into her case. It has been three months since she wrote to TCH but he has not replied.

Daphne's friends are waiting to see what the mighty, arrogant but totally out of touch pap will do
 

wrcboi

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If the PAP govt wants to squeeze 6 million population onto a small piece of land and make this place a cosmopolitan rich man's playground, sooner or later it'll have to allow for dual citizenship.

Unfortunately, the PAP will resist this because it can potentially open a can of worms. Two issues I can think of are CPF and NS.


Guess its only 1 can of worm which is the CPF issues....but its not easy to get Dual Citizenship esp for western countries...

NS is probably not an issue...South Koreans are allowed dual citizenships if they have completed/ exempted from their Military services.....
 

TracyTan866

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don't think so :o:o:o

I know Mark and May...a loving couple. Mark trusted his colleague and their good friend Ng. He asked Ng to help take care of May while he was on an overseas course. One thing led to another and Mark lost May
 

TracyTan866

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you are right brother. it will be a disaster to trust your wife to another man,esp when you wife is a hottie!!!

even if a woman trusts her best girl friend to her husband, it is also a big big mistake. she will eventually lose her husband too!
it works both ways. this is life.

true...being together socially and having dinner is different from being closely and intimately together, esp when hormones are raging
 

TracyTan866

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Tell your good friend to look for Yaacob Ibrahim. He is a helpful minister and can assist in manpower related issues over and above his current portfolio.

Thanks for the advice. I hope YI is as helpful as you have described him.

But the issue here is not abt getting help. It goes down to a basic issue whether the pap can revoke a singaporean's citizenship or deny a singaporean her passport just because another country grants her a citizenship.

Isn't it a birthright of anyone borned in SG to be a SG citizen? can that be taken away by the govt? That's what Daphne has challenged MHA to decide.

Does a Singaporean have to sell her HDB flat just because she accepts another country's citizenship?

Is the pap abusing the SG Constitution
 

roadrunner

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why didn't they ask her to renounce aussie citizenship, why they insisted she renounce sing citizenship ?

ICA does not have the right to ask her to renounce her Aussie ciizenship, doing so would cause more problems like a diplomatic row. ICA asked her to renounce her Singapore citizenship becos it's what the staff have been told to say & do, it's the law & the ICA staff are just following the rule book.
 

TracyTan866

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Guess its only 1 can of worm which is the CPF issues....but its not easy to get Dual Citizenship esp for western countries...

NS is probably not an issue...South Koreans are allowed dual citizenships if they have completed/ exempted from their Military services.....

Can the pap deny anyone from taking up another country's citizenship by compelling her to renounce her SG citizenship?

Daphne has thrown the ball into MHA's court and told them that she is not renouncing her SG citizenship and niether is she selling her HDB flat. Let's see what MHA and HDB will do to her
 

TracyTan866

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ICA asked her to renounce her Singapore citizenship becos it's what the staff have been told to say & do, it's the law & the ICA staff are just following the rule book.

The pap has to think deeper into this issue. Is asking Daphne to renounce her SG citizenship constitutionally legal? Daphne suffers no fools
 

valiant20

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The pap has to think deeper into this issue. Is asking Daphne to renounce her SG citizenship constitutionally legal? Daphne suffers no fools

Scroobal's thread did mention ICA has the right to revoke SG citizenship (just saw it, by Scroobal himself).. too many pages to get the link :P

If ICA & HDB decides to play hardball... revoke citizenship and take back HDB flat (which is a 99 year lease from HDB, and not outright owned by the occupant of the flat)

That might result in a lot of unhappiness online though. Time for National Conversation :rolleyes: on dual citizenship..
 

roadrunner

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Daphne holds a Singapore passport and an Australian passport. She has renewed her Singaporean passport twice. Both times in her application form she was asked whether she holds another country's passport ..bothe times she answered yes..both times, her passport was renewed without complications.

My guess is some idiot at ICA made the mistake the first time by renewing her passport when they should not have & when she renewed the second time, they just OK'd it without checking, the third time the mistake was spotted or maybe the counter staff were more on the ball & noticed she had filled in "Yes" to having dual citizenship. The ICA will now have to figure a way out for them as they should not have renewed her passport in the first & second time. No doubt this will be dealt with on an individual case basis & they are keen to keep it quiet.
 

wrcboi

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there are more pros than cons to have dual citizenships...its just that many public servants are too comfort in their zone to implement and push for it....
 

TracyTan866

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Scroobal's thread did mention ICA has the right to revoke SG citizenship (just saw it, by Scroobal himself).. too many pages to get the link :P

If ICA & HDB decides to play hardball... revoke citizenship and take back HDB flat (which is a 99 year lease from HDB, and not outright owned by the occupant of the flat)

That might result in a lot of unhappiness online though. Time for National Conversation :rolleyes: on dual citizenship..

Thanks...that's what MHA and HDB believe because they think the laws say so.

Do the laws contravene the Constitution?

Even if it is lawful for MHA and HDB to revoke a singaporean's citizenship, can the pap bear the political cost? will the pap sacrifice some singaporeans to keep many in line?

I dont think it is a straight forward case. It's a delicate issue...even if MHA and HDB are legally empowered to revoke citizenships, do they really want to stick with such outdated policies or would the pap seek to embrace Singaporeans who seek to be a global citizen?

Should the pap make a virtue out of necessity in this changing world rather than to stick to obsolete policies.
 
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