Originally posted by trangloh:
“No money pay rental to owner for 2 months owner want us to move
out by 9 march. I stay with my wife and 6 years old stepdaughter,
my wife now 31 weeks pregnancy, i ever seen MP, MP help me to send
a letter to hdb whether can rent a flat but rejected by hdb cause
rent a flat from hdb must be singapore citizen and one other
singapore citizen or singapore permanent resident. my wife is
foreigner had only long term pass. my pay after deduct cpf balance
$960, january first time my wife check up at kk hospital, check up
used around $450, february until now i had not bring my wife to
check up. I can sleep at void deck but i can’t let my wife and
daughter sleep at void deck. can someone teach me how?”
Yes, correct. If your spouse is not a Singaporean or a PR,
HDB will reject your application for the one
room one hall rented flat. Even if you see your MP in your
constituency is not going to help you.
Best solution now, you can go to JB and rent a single terrace
house with 3 bedrooms for RM300 to
RM500 a month, excluding the water and
electricity bills…don’t worry its cheap.
Since your wife and step daughter have long term visit pass, you
and your family can live in JB, no problem. Don’t worry about JB
immigration have to stamp your wife and step daughter passport each
time upon entry and exit. You, your wife and step daughter can
apply for the macs system whereby you do not have to go through the
normal JB immigration counter for social visit pass stamp or exit
stamp. With macs system, you just need to have the passports
scanned at self-entry/exit machine in JB. To apply for macs system,
it will cost you Rm30 for a year validity.
In Singapore, you, your wife and step daughter can apply for the
passports to be scanned and finger print instead of going to the
immigration counter for passport check during entry to Singapore or
exit from Singapore to JB. I think when you apply for that you need
to pay $30 for each passport and the validity of using that
immigration clearance will concide with your wife and step daughter
LTVP expiry date. You can apply for that
immigration clearance system at the departure hall at Woodlands
Checkpoint, no need to go to ICA HQ at
Lavender Road.
When you stay in JB with your family, at least you can still go
to work in Singapore and return to JB after your work in Singapore.
At least you have a good shelter for your family and good proper
home again. If you managed to do all this, I assure you, your life
will be back like normal again and it will even gives you a better
life that you had while living in Singapore.
I think is best your wife give birth in her own country if you
can’t afford it and if can afford it better still because with that
child your wife will be able to be a PR and later SC in the future.
You can do all the abovementioned after she has given birth.
Hope this information helps you. Good luck to you and your
family.