passport help

AhJun SG

This is what i found frm the website:
I am a Pre-enlistee. I would like to extend my International passport. Do I need to apply for an exit permit first?

You may extend your passport without having to apply for an exit permit. However, you are required to apply for an exit permit if your overseas trip is more than 3 months.

If your passport has already been extended up to 10 years from the date of issue or 5 years for passports issued on and after 1 Apr 2005, you are required to proceed to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) to apply for a new passport

I would like to ask something veri impt. I am a pre-enlistee and i am going overseas next month for about 8 days. My passport was issued on May 2000 and it expired and i got it extended on last year Dec 2006.The validity of my passport is therefore extended to May 2010 and that is also the date of expiry. In other words, i took a new picture for the passport and extended it both on Dec 2006. So do i haf to apply for a new passport??

caleb_chiang SG

A passport is only valid for 10 years from the date of issue... if you want go overseas within the last 6 months of expiry, you would need a new one. Rolling Eyes

Cos your passport need a minimum period of at least 6 months if you want to travel out of Singapore... Wink

AhJun SG

my passport issue is may 2000 and its expiry is may 2010. i am going overseas next month so it seems a long way to go till expiry date. but what i want to noe is do i haf to get a new passport even though its validity is till 2010??

AhJun SG

anyone help..

KoolKool SG

If your passport is valid (ie. have more than 6 months from the date of your trip), why will Immigration allow you to have another passport ?

Can 1 person hold 2 Singapore Passports ? So, he can sell one away ? No.

The system seems fine. Valid passport, less than 3 months travel, no need to complicate matters.

Obersturmfuhrer SG

Wun it be easier and faster if you just call the hot line and get your questions answered instead of asking people here who can only give half-baked answers?

AhJun SG

If your passport has already been extended up to 10 years from the date of issue or 5 years for passports issued on and after 1 Apr 2005, you are required to proceed to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) to apply for a new passport

i haf extended my passport last year Dec till May 2010. and my passport issue date is May 2000. i also got a new picture. does tt mean i haf to apply new passport?

eac SG

Originally posted by AhJun:
If your passport has already been extended up to 10 years from the date of issue or 5 years for passports issued on and after 1 Apr 2005, you are required to proceed to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) to apply for a new passport

i haf extended my passport last year Dec till May 2010. and my passport issue date is May 2000. i also got a new picture. does tt mean i haf to apply new passport?

THE ANSWER IS NO. GET IT?

the sentence means a passport shell life is extendable up to 10 years from date of issue. ONLY THEN, (may 2010) WILL YOU NEED TO APPLY FOR A NEW ONE.

isn't it the same logic as:

i bought a cinema ticket to watch a movie. half way i go toliet. now question: so do i still need to go to the counter to buy the same showtime slot ticket or not? but even though i still have the current cinema ticket (which is still valid since the movie is still showing)in my pocket?

KoolKool SG

Go and get your new biometric passport done and your question will not be relevant anymore.

AhJun SG

Originally posted by eac:

[b]THE ANSWER IS NO. GET IT?

the sentence means a passport shell life is extendable up to 10 years from date of issue. ONLY THEN, (may 2010) WILL YOU NEED TO APPLY FOR A NEW ONE.

isn't it the same logic as:

i bought a cinema ticket to watch a movie. half way i go toliet. now question: so do i still need to go to the counter to buy the same showtime slot ticket or not? but even though i still have the current cinema ticket (which is still valid since the movie is still showing)in my pocket?[/b]

but they didn't say expire by 10 years time then haf to apply for a new one what. frm the sentence they say if extend to 10 years then have to get a new one

mhcampboy SG

Look, don't ask me to explain why....

BUT GO!! You CAN go overseas for EIGHT days with your current passport!!

Do not ask anymore questions. Just go!

AhJun SG

i scared airport police dun let me pass

mhcampboy SG

Just say my name only. sure they let u pass... Rolling Eyes

eac SG

i wonder how u score when u do any english comprehension exams....

fine... if u want to waste $60 to make a new passport. go ahead. then ur current passport (which is still valid till may 2010) is as good as making a loss passort report at the police station.

i interpret for u the sentence once more ok.... using this:

singapore passport shelf life = 10 years from date of ISSUE. e.g. june 2005.

say if the date of expiry is dec 2007, u go ICA to chop and stamp the maximun date of 10 years. june 2005 + 10 years = june 2015.

ONLY UNTIL JUNE 2015, THEN WILL U NEED TO APPLY FOR A NEW PASSPORT.

AND IF U STILL INSIST ON GETTING A NEW PASSPORT.... ALL OF US GOT NOTHING TO SAY LIAO... LIKE AS IF U LIKE TO SPEND MONEY LIKE WATER, LIKE TO ANYHOW SUKAR SUKAR GIVE DONATION MONEY TO GOVERNMENT.