All About Home Addresses

[jtoh]

poopoo:

Thank you class monitor.


Do you know how to register under care taker route? Just bring the care giver ic upon registration?

You have to go to the MOE HQ to make a statutory declaration.

[poopoo]

Thank you, class monitor.

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poopoo:

Dear all,


I will be registering my son in this coming jul.
My current home address from the school is 1 to 2 km.

My mother in law current home address is my home address.

However, my mother in law is staying with my sister in law n her home address is within 1km from the school.

If my mother in law (i.e the care giver) change her home address now, and can I use my mother in law address to register so that we will be within 1km?

You do know that even if your mil change her address to your sil's address, and you use the care taker route to register your child, you would still be considered as within 1-2km even if the care taker (your mil) is living within 1km to the school.

[poopoo]

路人甲,


Noted with thanks!

[kk01]

Hi,

Please advise…
If I have just sold my house which is <1km from my shortlisted school, I still use the address for registration. Will there be any issue. Thanks.

[tankee]

kk01:

Hi,

Please advise...
If I have just sold my house which is <1km from my shortlisted school, I still use the address for registration. Will there be any issue. Thanks.

of course there will be issue. It they find out, they will transfer your child out of the school to another supposed nearly to the actual home that you are staying at.

And it is also illegal not to update your home address with the authorities.

[cherrygal]

kk01:

Hi,

Please advise...
If I have just sold my house which is <1km from my shortlisted school, I still use the address for registration. Will there be any issue. Thanks.

This is contentious... property purchase or sale takes time to go through, so if you really haven't bought/ rented a new home, then you have no choice but to use the present address. That is only if the vacancies are plenty and no balloting is conducted.

If balloting is conducted, and your kid gets in coz you're within 1km, you are thus required under the law to live in that stated address for the entire period of the primary school education. To prevent any trouble with the law, the only choice left would be to hunt for a suitable new house that is still within 1km of the school. I don't suppose you are moving far away since this is your shortlisted school?

Think the school authorities will understand if you bought a new home within 1km. Reasonable to move within the neighbourhood but not OK to move outside 1km if using for balloting.

[Melaniessl]

Hi Kiasu grand master, This is very interesting. So does this requirement by law to stay at the distance which you used to ballot NOT apply if you did not ballot but used that address to register. For example if i use a address that is within 1 KM to school to regsiter for phase 2B and did not need to ballot and got a place in school. Is there a minimum occupation period for that address?


If this is really the case then how about if my no 1 got into school using that 1 KM address and my no 2 registers when my no 1 is in primary 4 under sibling phase and therefore did not really use the address distance factor to register - does this mean that when no 1 graduates from pri 6 i can then move away beyond 1 KM?

This is pretty important to me and it is curious to note that what happens if a parent is retrenched or i decide to be a SAHM and cannot afford to stay in current house and need to downgrade and move away to more than 1 KM will we be penalised? Seems pretty harsh to me.

I had initially heard that Minimim occupation period for distance used to register is first 3 years pri 1 - 3 but you had mentioned entire duration of primary school so just wanted to confirm this. Thank you

[qms]

Melaniessl:

I had initially heard that Minimim occupation period for distance used to register is first 3 years pri 1 - 3 but you had mentioned entire duration of primary school so just wanted to confirm this. Thank you

The school can't stop families from moving house midway through the children's primary school education.

Bottom line is, as long as you are genuinely staying in the address at the point of registration and that you have not sold or don't plan to sell in the short term this property you are using for P1 registration, you may use this address when you register.

For kk01's case, it's totally different. She has already told the property. Unless she plans to arrange with the buyer of the property to extend her stay there for a few years, she should not use this property during P1 registration.

[kk01]

Hi all, thanks for the advice. Think I really sold my house at a wrong time in terms of registration for my son. In that case I will have to look for a home near to the school.

I can’t imagine if my son is kicked out of the school…