Singapore Landed PR

The Landed Permanent Resident (LPR) scheme allows you to apply for Singapore permanent residence while you are still working and living overseas. The LPR Scheme is open only to those individuals who have top notch education or professional background. As a rule of thumb, you must be in the top 1% of your competitive landscape on a global basis in order to qualify for Landed Permanent Resident scheme.

According to available statistics, an average of 36,000 people become Singapore permanent residents every year, allowing them to enjoy many of the benefits of a Singapore citizen such as visa-free residency, priority schooling and the ability to change jobs, etc. Permanent residence in Singapore under the LPR scheme is given on an exceptional basis only.

Landed Permanent Residence - What Does it Mean?

Landed Permanent Residence means Singapore government is ready to grant you permanent residence subject to your actual relocation to Singapore. When your LPR application is approved, your have in-principle-approval from Singapore government and you will be given one year to find work and relocate to Singapore. If jobs are hard to come by, all may not be lost. Our past experience shows that as long as you have physically relocated to Singapore, ented or purchased a residential property, have put your children in Singapore schools, authorities will be willing to grant you the Singapore
PR status. Normally, PR status is granted for five years initially and renewable thereafter as long as you continue to reside in Singapore.

Eligibility
The LPR scheme is open to individuals with high-caliber professional or tertiary qualifications and who are working overseas at the time of filing their LPR application. In general, Singapore authorities want to make sure that you will be able to make high-value contributions to Singapore society and that your skills are unique and you won't have any problem getting and keeping a high-paying job in both good and bad economic times. In other words, you must be cream of the crop in order to have a chance of approval under the LPR scheme.

The following factors are a good rule of thumb to help you decide whether to file an application for Singapore landed permanent residence:
• Your profession is in demand and will stay in demand for the foreseeable future, especially in the context of employment in Singapore.
• If you are still pursuing your degree or have just completed your higher education, your university is in the top 100 universities of the
world and your field of study is in high demand.
• If you are a working professional, you have high-caliber professional experience and consider yourself in the top 1% of your profession.
• You are 45 years old or younger.
If you meet the above criteria, you have a good chance of approval. When applying for LPR, you can include your immediate family members
(spouse and unmarried children under 21) as part of the application.
National Service Liability
Main applicants who are granted PR status under the first generation LPR scheme are exempted from NS. Male children who are granted PR
status under their parents’ application are liable for NS upon reaching 16 1/2 years old.

Documents Required
Applicant and Spouse
1. Identity Card (Front & Back)
2. Passport (Pages 1 & 2 and other pages which contain personal
particulars)
3. Birth Certificate
4. Educational & Professional Qualifications (include transcripts)
5. Current & Previous Employment Letters or Testimonials
6. Salary Slips for the last six months
7. Income Tax returns for the last three years
8. Marriage Certificate
Children
1. Identity Card (Front & Back)
2. Passport (Pages 1 & 2 & other pages which contain personal particulars)
3. Birth Certificate
4. Educational Qualifications
5. Employment Letter, if applicable
Note: If applicant is/was separated/divorced/widowed, copies of Separation Papers/Divorce Certificate/Death Certificate/Custody Papers for the children have to be produced. If necessary, additional documents and information may be required to support the application (especially due to difference in nationalities).

Translation of Documents & Certification of Documents
All documents, which are not in English, are to be translated into English by a registered translator. Self translations and translations by freelance individuals are not acceptable. The original translations are to be submitted with the application. Besides submitting the English translations, you also need to make photocopies of all the original documents and have them certified as true copies of the originals by a Singapore Mission or a Singapore Notary Public. Photocopies of English documents also need to be certified as true copies of the originals.

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