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Affairs and Singapore’s Economic Development Board). If the
investor had a good track record, the investor can apply for
permanent residency.
Permanent residents in Singapore number to about
527,000 as of June 2015 data from government. About 8,868
only are non-citizen spouses married to Singaporeans. Foreign
permanent residents are mostly within the 25-49 years old
bracket. But from 2007 to 2014, the Singaporean government’s
granting of citizenship and permanent residency to foreigners
had gone down. This is owed to the “tightening of the
immigration framework [of Singapore] in 2009” (National
Population and Talent Division, Department of Statistics, Ministry
of Home Affairs and Immigration and Checkpoints Authority,
2015) (see Figure 2). Only P, Q and S passers are eligible to
apply for permanent residency.
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