ChiefKiasu\" post_id=\"2060417\" time=\"1646270360\" user_id=\"3:

It's a sticky situation, but I don't think you have much of a choice. I would suggest you stay in your rental facilities until your child completes the 30 month requirement, and slowly build up your permanent home and use it as a \"vacation\" home for the weekends in the meantime.

You might want to check again if your new house falls under 1km using the new distancing tool. :xedfingers:

Anyway, there might be some chance that balloting might ease this year around because of the changes to Phase 2C. Things will always find a solution

Yar I know that should work... just that the thought of paying on both ends is... hefty and heavy.

Also checked the new house proximity already, unfortunately it falls marginally under red color from what i saw from Onemap.

But for phase 2C, can you please elaborate that?

I have a similar situation.


My family is staying in a rental house for a short term before the new condo is TOP'ed in 2023. The dilemma is that the current rental house is <1km from the school, yet the new condo is 1-2km.

As the school is pretty popular such that I don't think 1-2km proximity will stay a chance to get in hence I'm prepared to extend the stay in rental house to get the school under <1km category.

So the problem is once we have got the kid registered the school (successfully, fingers crossed) at her 5-y-o, and plan to move to the new condo (say 12 months later).

Now, questions:
1. is it possible to move to the new condo whilst remain the NRIC address at the previous rental place? (I mean, there'll still a gap to renovate the house before moving in right?)
2. say for the sake of retaining <1km, I update my NRIC address to the new condo whilst my spouse retains the rental address, is it workable? (or will be questioned and hammered pretty badly by MOE?)
3. If we both change the address, and here comes this clause \"MOE reserves the right to transfer the child to another school with vacancies\", how likely will this happen and can this be appealed (kneel and beg MOE) to retain the school?

Thanks!