What are the procedures for spouses to apply for Singapore citizenship?

Singapore immigrant spouses need a stable marriage to apply for permanent residence. According to the family relationship plan, the Immigration and Checkpoints Bureau will not approve the spouse's application for permanent residency or citizenship until the marriage between a Singaporean citizen and a foreign spouse is stable.

Immigration authorities usually issue a long-term visit permit (LTVP) to foreign spouses first. In 2003, 7,700 foreign spouses in Singapore held such permits, compared with 7,800 last year.

In April last year, the Singapore government launched the Long-Term Visit Permit (LTVP+), which allows these foreign spouses to stay in the local area for three to five years without renewing their passes every year. Last year, 3,900 people held such permits. Compared with ten years ago, the number of foreign spouses who have married and settled in Singapore through the Kinship Scheme has greatly increased. Among them, the number of spouses who have obtained citizenship has nearly doubled. Last year, the number of foreign spouses with permanent residency under the kinship scheme was 58,600, and the number of spouses who were successfully naturalized was 70,600. These applicants are mainly women.

From 2005 to 2009, 65,438+065,438+000 overseas-born children whose parents were Singapore citizens obtained Singapore citizenship. Among them, 68% revealed that they also held foreign nationality when applying for citizenship.

But Singapore does not allow citizens to have dual citizenship. Anyone with dual nationality must give up his foreign nationality within 12 months after reaching the age of 2/kloc-0. Between 2000 and 2004, 700 overseas-born children became Singapore citizens, accounting for 64% of the total.