Personal experiences · daily life
Immigration experience: PR application keeps getting rejected. Why?
The original poster reports living and working in Singapore for nine years, working in management at an international IT company, and being unmarried when posting on 21 July 2023. The poster says more than five PR applications had been rejected (estimating six or seven, without certainty) and shares a rejection-letter message saying another application could be submitted if circumstances changed. The poster asks what that wording meant; forum replies speculate, but they do not establish the poster's rejection reason or ICA policy.
- Narrator
- Foreign professional working in Singapore who applied repeatedly for permanent residence
- Voice
- First person
- Population
- non-resident
- Source type
- forum post
- Publisher
- Singapore Expats Forum
- Published
- 2023-07-21
- Sensitive topics
- immigration status
What the narrator reports
Reported outcomes are anecdotal and self-selected. They cannot reveal official criteria, approval odds or the reason for a decision.
- Reported outcome
- rejected
- Age band
- 40 49
- Household
- single
- PR scheme
- unknown
- Application
- pr
- Years in Singapore
- 9
- Occupation
- IT management
- Pass held when applying
- employment pass
Consistency checks
| Detail checked | Checked against | Result |
|---|---|---|
| The reported rejection letter and repeated applications do not identify an official rejection reason or approval formula; this is consistent with the article's description of PR decisions as discretionary.Consistency check against the general account of PR assessment only; it does not independently confirm the poster's personal details, decision dates or historical letter wording. | PR and Citizenship | Consistent |
Caveats
- The full public thread was fetched. The opening post supports the single status, nine years in Singapore, employment-pass context, and more-than-five applications; it does not support the former record's three-attempt, married-applicant, or September 2023 claims.
- Age is retained only as a broad 40–49 band; nationality and exact age are not recorded.
- The poster's application dates and final decision date are not provided, so the experience period remains unknown.
- This is a different applicant and a different period from the 2014 record; the accounts do not corroborate one another. The letter wording is self-reported and forum replies are speculative, so neither establishes current ICA rules or why any particular application was rejected.
Sources
Collection as of 2026-10-16 · An expanding collection. Published counts show available knowledge, not complete coverage of Singapore.
Machine-readable: Markdown · JSON · sgtest.immigration.pr-rejected-three-times-2023