Just want to share my story, pointing out the dirty doings of
our ICA.
I have a girlfriend that resides in Thailand. Last week she came
to Singapore for the 2nd time but was deported back to Thailand.
She was here looking for me but Immigration at Changi Airport stop
her and refuse her entry in Singapore. She told them the reason and
gave my contact number so that ICA could call to verify. Instead
ICA put her in the waiting room for a long 6 hours and arrange a
flight for her to go back Thailand. I did not received any phone
calls from her after she was stop by the customs, they confiscated
her phone and ICA did not give me a single call for the whole
duration.
On my side, I've been waiting for her arrival at the airport and
notice that almost everyone from that flight had already exit the
arrival hall except me. So I approach the information counter and
asked for help, they told me she could be probably be held back at
the Immigration side and gave me a number to call. So I did, i
called about 200 times (this is not exaggerating, my iphone was at
95% and it went down to 20%) and there is no one to pick up,
information counter said they could do nothing at all because they
are not directly related with the ICA people, I did all I could,
even approaching the security there, even the police refuses to
help, saying that "it is not my job to help you, please go away". I
was frustrated and helpless, it was suppose to be at 12.40am flight
arrival time and i waited till morning 7am and still, no one was
able to help me. So i went home and keep dialing the immigration
office till about 11am, still no one answered the phone nor a call
from ICA.
Moments after, my girlfriend called me from Thailand that she is
already back at home as ICA rejected her entry. I asked her why ICA
do that, she says that ICA insisted her reason to Singapore was
false and refuse to listen to her even her repetition of telling
ICA she was here looking for me and could call me if they don't
believe her. So at 6am, they escort her to board the plane without
further questions and telling her she could not enter Singapore and
will be given a warning that she is not allowed to re-entered
Singapore for the next 6 months and chop her passport. It was the
first time she encounter this incident, she felt helpless as well
and tried to talk back to the ICA but they are that she has
insufficient proof that I am her boyfriend.
My main concern is,
1. Why are ICA allowed to do things freely according to their
"instinct" ?
2. Where is the official proof from ICA that she is lying?
3. There is no verification call to me from ICA.
4. I waited like a fool outside the hall and totally helpless
and not a single person could help.
Putting aside our known mentality that most Thailand people came
to singapore to seek jobs officially/unofficially, she is genuinely
my spouse and I have every proof to show that we are in a
relationship. If my girlfriend were to be a English or American,
will ICA stop them? I would surely think no. This is a violent
racist act against Thailand people, or probably some other nations
as well, what angers me most is that I called ICA HQ this morning,
the officer told me "the customs has every right to reject a person
entry to singapore without any reason given, they have to accept
it". Where is the transparency we have here? Now that we are
separated for 6 months, I'm not sure how we could deal with the
emotional stress.
Firstly, you need to make sure that your Thai girlfriend was really
on the flight to Singapore and she did arrived at Singapore
Airport.
Secondly, you need to tell us why she didn't try to contact you
on her mobile phone, by calling or smses, to inform you about her
predicament while she was being confined.
As far as I know, ICA doesn't confiscate mobile phones. If ICA
does that, they might also want to confiscate your girlfriend's
virginity as well because she could be hiding an explosive device
in her vagina.
So, confiscating personal belongings is a very questionable
doubt which you should implore further. Your personal belongings
can only be confiscated or withheld by a Police officer and only
when you have broken the law but definitely not when you were being
held under suspect for illegal entry into a country. Only Police,
not ICA people who does not have any form of authority to possess
or repossess personal belongings.
As long as she have a valid E-visa into Singapore which you
could conveniently applied for her or she could have done it for
herself, she can enter Singapore as a tourist without the need of
declaring you as her boyfriend.
And it's 12:40am arrival flight, ICA people are all almost
half-sleepy already....why would they suddenly get so excited and
awake to screen and detain your normal-looking Thai girlfriend?
But it's a nice story by the way if you're making this up, or
you are being lied to by your Thai girlfriend.
