All About Home Addresses

[tankee]

hi Sunshine8


it is kind of late to be thinking of volunteering if your child is registering in 2015, as most schools that are still accepting PV would probably have completed or close to completing the PV selection process.

Under normal circumstances, if both parents have different addresses on their NRIC, the father’s address will be used. Please do note that under the National Registration Act, an Identity Card (IC) holder is required to report his/her change of residential address within 28 days.

[sunshine8]

thanks tankee, mine will be registrating in 2016. have been accepted for pv but dunno if can clock the necessary hours. so does it mean there is no way for us to consider

a sch in east n a sch in west?

thanks

[sunshine8]

Paiseh, register in 2015 and p1 in 2016

[phtthp]

Is renting of one room allowed, less than 1 km from Sch ?

Or must rent whole flat ?

Anybody know ?
Tq

[abachee]

Guys, this is the consequences for giving false address inorder to get his child to register in sought after primary school.


Man charged with providing false address to get daughter into primary school
PUBLISHED ON MAY 27, 2014
BY ELENA CHONG

A man was charged in court on Tuesday with providing false information to a school principal, so as to secure a place for his daughter in a primary school in District 10.

Henry Wong Yi Hao, 35, also faces a second charge of giving false information to a police officer at Kampong Java Neighbourhood Police Centre, saying that he lived at a residential address which he knew to be false, causing the cop to change his address on his identity card on July 20 last year.

He is accused of giving false information to the school principal about him living at that address, knowing that it would cause the public servant to enrol his daughter into Phase 2C of the Primary 1 registration exercise.

The school is not named to protect the identity of the girl.

[sunshine8]

Hi all,


Just to confirm, it’s ok for us to rent one whole apartment and reside there for the primary sch years, instead of buying right? Issues only arise when people do not stay there, am I right?

Thanks!

[sunshine8]

Paiseh paiseh, another question. Does any one know how long it takes to rent a private property (excluding selection process) and how long does it take to update the change in the IC?


Thanks!

[pirate]

sunshine8:

Paiseh paiseh, another question. Does any one know how long it takes to rent a private property (excluding selection process) and how long does it take to update the change in the IC?


Thanks!

(1) Renting a private property - as long as it takes you and the landlord to sign the tenancy agreement. Usually depends on the negotiation process, but once it is signed, the tenancy starts from the date stated on the agreement as the starting date of the tenancy.

(2) Update change in IC - as long as it takes you to go down to the police station to update your address. This depends on when you are free to do so, because the police officer will stick the new address on your IC on the spot.

[pirate]

sunshine8:

Hi all,


Just to confirm, it's ok for us to rent one whole apartment and reside there for the primary sch years, instead of buying right? Issues only arise when people do not stay there, am I right?

Thanks!

Yes to the first part. Not everyone can afford to buy their home.

The second part is dicey and contains some grey area. Technically, you do not have to be living there for the whole of the six years. There is no guarantee that an agreement can be reached to extend/renew the tenancy when it expires in a year or two. You do, however, have to be living there when the child starts school (or when you register the child? This part a bit grey too). As for how long you have to continue to live there after the child starts school...

I suggest that if you have to move house after your child starts school, you continue to retain documentary evidence that you were in fact living there at the time your child started school - eg. stamped tenancy agreement, evidence of rent payment, utility bills etc. Heck, throw a birthday party at home when your child is in pri 1 and invite all your child's classmates to be witnesses (well... their parents anyway). Don't forget to take lots of photos/videos.

Never know when someone may complain.

[sunshine8]

Thanks pirate, your suggestions r really useful!