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EXAMPLE CASE · PR-2026-0917
Profile readinessIllustrative profile
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Solidband 3 of 4

/ 90 max
not a % chance

Contribution82
Roots61

Because you said your parents live with you: a visible sign of putting down roots.

Every line tells you where it came from.

ICA publishes what it considers, not how it weighs it. So we keep three things apart: what ICA says, what 131 vetted applicant reports show, and our own judgement.

How we score
FactorFamily ties, economic contribution, qualifications, age, family profile, length of residencyOfficial
TimelineICA states applications are processed within 6 months when documents are completeOfficial
Intake35,352 new PRs were granted in 2025Official
PatternStrong-on-paper profiles with few local ties are common among reported rejectionsApplicants report
PatternReapplying without a material change tends to end the same wayApplicants report
DocumentThe employer letter must be dated within 3 months of submissionOfficial

Sources: ICA, Population in Brief 2026, ICA document checklist.

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You · month 7
036912 mo

Shaded: where the middle half of reported decisions landed (months 5–11). ICA's stated timeline is within 6 months when documents are complete.

The upload button disappeared from my e-Service. Is that good?

Applicants often report a decision within days of that, but it doesn't signal which way. ICA hasn't published what it means.Applicants report · How we use this data

Ask Compass will answer from ICA sources and vetted reports, and say which is which.

It will never guess your odds. When it doesn't know, it will say so and point you to ICA. Until it launches, the answers to the most common waiting-period questions are in the knowledge base.

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Why trust the output: every official fact links to ICA or another government source, every applicant pattern comes from vetted, source-tracked cases, and the scoring is tested against real outcomes, with its limits stated.

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Official
“ICA takes into account factors such as the individual's family ties to Singaporeans, economic contributions, qualifications, age, family profile and length of residency, to assess the applicant's ability to contribute to Singapore and integrate into our society, as well as his or her commitment to sinking roots in Singapore.”
ICA, Becoming a Permanent Resident, accessed September 2026. Our Contribution and Roots scores follow this sentence.

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