two-thirds of s'pore PR applications are successful

Singapore PAP govt gave PR like free candies..

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Mr Wong Kan Seng said in Parliament yesterday that an average of 46,300 people are granted Singaporean permanent resident (PR) status every year for the past eight years.

From 2000 to 2008, an average of 74,500 applications for permanent residency were submitted by foreigners each year. Of these, an average of 46,300 applications were successful which translates to two successful applications out of every three.
MM Lee said earlier that all applications are carefully vetted so that “highly qualified” foreigners will become PRs.

However, some of the new PRs include beauticians, language teachers, clinic assistants and administrative personnel who are not quite considered “qualified” as exemplified by the case of

Chinese national Zhang Yuanyuan who got her PR in only 2 months while working as a Chinese teacher in a private school.

In his reply to Mr Chiam See Tong’s question about the number of PR applications received, granted and PR statuses renounced,

Mr Wong said that PR applications have been increasing steadily in recent years.

As of June this year, there were 1.253 million non-residents, but only 533,000 PRs. In total, foreigners now make up 36 per cent of Singapore’s population, up from 14 per cent in 1990.


An online furore over Chinese national and

Singapore PR Zhang Yuanyuan proclaiming her loyalty to China on TV

was even reported in The Economist.

Despite concerns on the ground at the direction and viability of Singapore’s liberal immigration policy to import foreigners en masse to make up for the population shortfall here,

the ruling party is adamant that there will be no wholesale changes to it.

In the past, immigrants were concentrated at the top or bottom of the jobs ladder, performing work that Singaporeans could not or did not want to do.

Today, foreigners compete on almost every rung. Some, like geneticists, bring in useful skills. Others—it is feared—displace local skills and depress wages at the bottom.

PRs enjoy the benefits of citizenship without all the responsibilities, such as national service for men (first-generation PRs are generally exempt).

High immigration has coincided with a widening income gap. Singapore’s Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, rose from 0.444 in 2000 to 0.481 in 2008—higher than in China and America.

it was the latest sign of resentment towards incomers and evidence that immigration is becoming the city-state’s dominant political issue.

they did not care about people and aimed for economic growth at all cost,including downgrading singapore citizen to play second fiddle to PR.

cheers to our great leaders.