short-term visa's the cause of social ills in Spore

Rooney9 SG

alot of women from myanmar, vietnam, thailand, china, korea, russia et al, take advantage of the short term visa to come here do illegal things, like prostitution, begging, selling of illegal cigarettes.

the government policy has failed in this respect. originally it was meant to encourage trade among ASEAN countries, but it has backfired. can u believe foreigners from ASEAN countries come here to beg for a living, beg for spore dollar and go back to their home country exchanged for their own currency. no way will I vote for PAP for their failed policies.

the Bear SG

dude.. show me how you can separate the "bad" from the correct traveller...

then come back and kpkb about this

I-like-flings(m) SG

no lah... beg is already doing good things lah.. usually they just things worst than that.....like stealing all the middle to top level job including washing test tube.....but except for mp job of cos...

fudgester SG

So what are you saying? Ban short-term visas to end all these 'social ills'?

Then what about real businessmen who, you know, want to come over on a short-term basis to do business and pump money into the economy?

And what if they want to bring their wives over for a few months?

And what about tourists who genuinely want to stay here for a slightly longer period?

And what about the parents of foreign students who want to come over for a while to stay with their kids for a few months?

And what about medical tourists who want to come here to get treatment in local private hospitals?

Rooney9 SG

not ban, but make it more difficult for those beggars, illegal peddlars and prostitutes to come over and take advantage of the short term visas.

I propose making a deposit of 10k refundable when they go back to their own country for a 6 months visa. it will be forfeited if they are charged of crimes.

fudgester SG

not ban, but make it more difficult for those beggars, illegal peddlars and prostitutes to come over and take advantage of the short term visas.

Like Bear has said....

..... how do you want to weed them all out from, say, genuine tourists who want to stay for a longer period of time?

Clivebenss SG

not ban, but make it more difficult for those beggars, illegal peddlars and prostitutes to come over and take advantage of the short term visas.

probably you refer to the previous ways that they need to show a certain sum of money to the immigration before they can enter Sg.

Rooney9 SG

Like Bear has said....

..... how do you want to weed them all out from, say, genuine tourists who want to stay for a longer period of time?

tourists visa of 2 weeks is fine, but 6 months is another story. why would a tourist need a 6 months visa for a small country in singapore?

C751A 70049/70050 SG

tourists visa of 2 weeks is fine, but 6 months is another story. why would a tourist need a 6 months visa for a small country in singapore?

Because it is a farking standard procedure across most (Within ASEAN??) countries.

For Malaysia case, I think I used to get a visit pass of 1 month but back then I was 10 years old. (That was because of a school did a JB tour for 1 farkin day only, like morning to 8pm night)