ICA’s citizenship applications backlog beyond 2023!

[Confuseous]

http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/02/01/icas-citizenship-applications-backlog-beyond-2023/

I checked ICA’s e-appointment website link to verify what someone had told me about citizenship applications being fully booked until the end of Year 2023 !!!!
Our government seems to be bent on making the 6.9M population a reality.

If we do the calculations, assuming that each day there will be two appointments,

January 2015 – December 2015 – 365 days x 2 = 730 applicants
2016 to 2023 = 7 years x 365 days x 2 appointments/day = 5110 applicants

TOTAL: 5,840 applicants

Looking at the brighter side, maybe ICA is deliberately making it FULLY BOOKED to discourage new applicants to become citizens in response to our true-blue Singaporeans who clamour that our Government is not doing anything to stop the influx of foreigners that will eventually become applicants for PRs and Citizens.

What do you think?

HK Lim

* Submitted by TRE reader.

 

[krafty]

little did you know that most of these applicants are not genuine loyal to sinkieland, all they want is to get out after they established themselves here, it's easier for them this way. i see this move by the pap to attract pple from strong roots back in their home country. one fine day, you may find a pap vietnamese minister here.

 

[JohnTan]

PAP ruled Singapore so well that many foreign talents have flocked to our shores and are willing to pledge allegiance to Singapore.

 

[krafty]

this confirmed long term strategy, they should put an indon terrorist in the cabinet, he will make sure both sides bor taichi, soon soon...heng heng...

 

[AhMeng]

Two Words in Bold and Font 7.....

FUCK PAP!!!:oIo:

 

[virus]

If ica can only handle 2 appointment a day, the entire team should b beheaded for wasting public resources n so inefficient, no wonder productivity is so low,

 

[JohnTan]

If ica can only handle 2 appointment a day, the entire team should b beheaded for wasting public resources n so inefficient, no wonder productivity is so low,

We should be doing that to the anti-Singapore people who had been spewing all sorts of xenophobic and racist remarks.

 

[virus]

So you will behead ellow the shitty pinoy or casey the wuss?

 

[JohnTan]

So you will behead ellow the shitty pinoy or casey the wuss?

We should give them a fair trial first. That is the expected behaviour from a First World nation., We are not some slum-infested country.

 

[ionzu]

PAP ruled Singapore so well that many foreign talents have flocked to our shores and are willing to pledge allegiance to Singapore.

the PAP ruled so well until their own citizens are revolting against them. EXCELLENT JOB PAP! keep on navel gazing.

 

[eatshitndie]

it only proves that ica is slowing down the juggernaut and carefully screening all applications, which should slow down the swarming of sg. sinkies should feel more relieved than kpkb.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Relax. This backlog will be cleared within 2 months after GE16

 

[butoh6050]

Relax. This backlog will be cleared within 2 months after GE16

Damn right! An express approval will be created which will cut down all the man hours.

 

[laksaboy]

Looking at the brighter side, maybe ICA is deliberately making it FULLY BOOKED to discourage new applicants to become citizens in response to our true-blue Singaporeans who clamour that our Government is not doing anything to stop the influx of foreigners that will eventually become applicants for PRs and Citizens.

Do you honestly think the pappies are so magnanimous that they don't want to get their returns on investment from building the new hospitals, new flats and new MRT lines?

These bastards are utterly greedy. That Fernvale columbarium incident was a revealing sneak peek into their decadence.

Sinkies must wake up from their slumber, and quickly.

 

[Poomer]

Goal: 15,000-25,000 new citizens a year
http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big...y/goal-15000-25000-new-citizens-year-20130130

By Goh Chin Lian

SINGAPORE plans to give citizenship to between 15,000 and 25,000 foreigners each year, to ensure a strong Singaporean core in the make-up of the country.

The projection is not a major departure from the current situation: In the past five years, an average of 18,500 new citizens have taken the oath each year.

To ensure Singapore can draw on a pool of suitable candidates for citizenship, the Government will continue to do what it has been doing in the past three years - give permanent resident status to 30,000 foreigners a year.

These plans that mark a new approach to immigration are, however, just part of the picture on Singapore's population in the next 20 years, as laid out in a White Paper released yesterday.

The other part involves new pro-family measures to encourage citizens to marry and give birth, and greater efforts at integrating new immigrants into Singapore society.

Striking a fine balance between the two is the Government's goal, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean at a press conference on the White Paper on a Sustainable Population for a Dynamic Singapore.

"If we don't grow at all, or shrink, then we will face all the problems of an ageing population but lack the dynamism in the economy... But if we go too quickly, then we may go beyond the constraints that we have," he said.

The new immigration policy is expected to shore up the resident population of citizens and PRs to between 4.2 million and 4.4 million in 2030. This will be a 10 to 15 per cent rise from the 3.82 million as of June last year.

The citizen population, in turn, will climb from 3.29 million to between 3.6 million and 3.8 million, with the PR population stabilising at 500,000 to 600,000. If there was no immigration, the citizen population would shrink from 2025 in the wake of the current low total fertility rate of 1.2.

Stressing the need to inject new blood from abroad, the White Paper said: "We will continue to welcome new citizens and permanent residents who can contribute to Singapore, add to our diversity, share our values and integrate into society. They supplement our population, and help build a stronger and more sustainable Singaporean core."

Singapore has tightened its immigration policy in recent years, following a 2009 review, prompted by unhappiness over the flood of foreigners from the mid-2000s. The number of people given PR status fell from 79,000 in 2008 to almost 30,000 annually in the past three years.

But the new immigration rate is not set in stone, said the White Paper. It will be reviewed from time to time, based on the quality of applicants, birth rates and changing needs.

Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, in response to a question at the White Paper press conference, assured the Malay community the changes will not affect their position. He said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had twice given the assurance that "it is the government policy to ensure that we maintain a racial balance as far as possible".

The White Paper also identified a growing contributor of new citizens: non-Singaporeans who wed Singaporeans. They make up four in 10 Singaporean marriages a year, or about 9,000 in 2011.

Asked if rules would be eased for their spouses to become citizens, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Grace Fu said: "We do not intend at this moment to encourage one way or the other."

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- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big...w-citizens-year-20130130#sthash.hmdnP33D.dpuf

18,500 new citizens per year in the past couple years, and they are going to cut it to 500 per year? Don't make me laugh please. The chances of that really happening is as high as PAP losing the election.

 

[blissquek]

Damn right! An express approval will be created which will cut down all the man hours.

To upsize the population, they will use words like en-bloc and amass
and in a jiffy , they meet the yearly figure of 25,000 new citizens.

 

[winnipegjets]

ICA waiting for LHL to order instant citizenship to the millions of foreigners here. These foreigners will have to let the PAP mark their election ballots for them in order to get citizenship.

 

[frenchbriefs]

i didnt know a singaporean "core" can be created....i thought a singaporean core is supposed to be made up of singaporeans themselves,u give foreigners citizenship suddenly they are no longer foreigners but true blue sinkies?

this is like white americans giving themselves native american names like "running coyote johnson" and they become native indians?

SINGAPORE plans to give citizenship to between 15,000 and 25,000 foreigners each year, to ensure a strong Singaporean core in the make-up of the country.

 

[Kuailan]

Two Words in Bold and Font 7.....

FUCK PAP!!!:oIo:

These Foreign Trash are just using Stinkapoor as a stepping STONE!!

 

[WhatsOnYourMind]

We should be doing that to the anti-Singapore people who had been spewing all sorts of xenophobic and racist remarks.

He can play the role of a pig!