SINGAPORE, July 26 — The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority quickly removed a provision that allowed boyfriends or girlfriends of Singapore citizens and permanent residents to enter the country when it saw that it was likely being abused, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said today.
There were suggestions in some quarters that ICA removed the allowance after He Ting Ru, Workers’ Party’s Member of Parliament for Sengkang Group Representation Constituency, raised the issue in Parliament in February this year. “Vietnam specifically had a comprehensive public health surveillance system and had displayed successful control over Covid at that time. In the last four weeks of September 2020, it had zero local Covid cases.
“ICA then began to receive many applications for Vietnamese to come into Singapore under the ‘boyfriend/girlfriend’ category,” Shanmugam said. “When we looked at these applications for girlfriends, and they’re all primarily girlfriends to come in, we decided this won’t do. We have to stop this,” Shanmugam said.
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