---
id: sgtest.immigration.pr-rejected-three-times-2023
kind: testimony
title: "Immigration experience: PR application keeps getting rejected. Why?"
url: https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/testimony/sgtest.immigration.pr-rejected-three-times-2023
language: en
evidence_status: self-reported-unverified
collection_as_of: 2026-10-16
---

# Immigration experience: PR application keeps getting rejected. Why?

> Self-reported and unverified. This is one person’s account, attributed to the narrator. It is not a statement of fact or of current rules; check official sources before relying on any detail.

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.

## Record details

- **Consistency checks:** Notes: 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.; Detail checked: 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.; Result: pass; Checked against: [PR and Citizenship](https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/article/sgkb.daily-life.pr-and-citizenship)
- **All domains:** daily-life
- **Period described:** 
- **Themes:** pr-application; repeated-rejection; employment-pass; rejection-letter
- **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.
- **Entities:** [Immigration and Checkpoints Authority](https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/entity/sg.agency.ica)
- **Narrator:** Voice: first-person; Population: non-resident; Role at time: Foreign professional working in Singapore who applied repeatedly for permanent residence
- **Published:** 2023-07-21
- **Publisher:** Singapore Expats Forum
- **Topic ids:** [Work passes, PR and citizenship](https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/topic/sgtopic.daily-life.immigration-status)
- **Sensitive topics:** immigration-status
- **Source type:** forum-post
- **Verification:** plausible
- **Self reported:** 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
- **Testimony type:** immigration

## Sources

- [PR application keeps getting rejected. Why?](https://forum.singaporeexpats.com/viewtopic.php?t=153454) — Accessed 2026-10-11

## Explore connections

- Articles: [PR and Citizenship](https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/article/sgkb.daily-life.pr-and-citizenship)
- Topics: [Work passes, PR and citizenship](https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/topic/sgtopic.daily-life.immigration-status)
- People & organisations: [Immigration and Checkpoints Authority](https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/entity/sg.agency.ica)

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