I'm due to do NS soon, but lucky me have both an overseas citizenship and a Singapore citizenship. Dual citizenship rocks!
Let's say if I AWOL/ default/ desert NS after the 1st 2 weeks confinement period of BMT, will the homeland security and borders protection authority sieve me out if I am going to use my overseas citizen passport to travel to Malaysia to transit/ transfer connecting flight back to my overseas country where I belong without getting caught at Malaya?
I am not stepping foot to Singapore soil ever again in the rest of my life after my current Exit Permit expiry.
For my sake, my parents honourably paid a $75,000 NS security bond, their retirement fund. But I heck care my parents' money. It's their retirement money. It is not going to me after they passed away anyway. Apparently, they can only get the money back AFTER I ORD from NS. Good game and smart move, Singaporean government.
My motherland home country is Canada, the maple country, so I am wasting my time "doing time for this Lion city".
I emigrated out of Singapore when I was around 7-8 years old, so I am already pretty liberal for no conscription.
Those who are liable to serve national service but refuse are charged under the Enlistment Act. If convicted, they face three years' imprisonment and a fine of S$10,000.
Controversy arose when the penalties were increased in January 2006 after Melvyn Tan, who was born in Singapore, received a fine for defaulting on his National Service obligations. Tan left for London to study music during his enlistment age and later acquired British nationality. In parliament, Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean provided some illustration of the punishments defaulters would face:
Each year, a small number of people are convicted for their failure to enlist or refusal to be conscripted. Most of them were Jehovah's Witnesses, who are usually court-martialled and sentenced to three years' imprisonment, but they are usually held in a low-security detention facility and separated from other conscription offenders. The government does not consider conscientious objection to be a legal reason for refusal to serve NS. Since 1972, the publications of Jehovah's Witnesses have been outlawed in Singapore. This is commonly misinterpreted to mean that Jehovah's Witnesses themselves are outlawed in Singapore.
If you are between 13 and 16.5 years old:
You
need to apply for an exit permit if you intend to travel or remain
overseas for 3 months or longer. If you are remaining overseas for 2
years or longer, your parents/guardians will also need to furnish a
bond, in the form of a Banker's Guarantee of S$75,000 or 50% of the
combined annual gross income of both parents for the preceding year,
whichever is higher.
If you are above 16.5 and have not enlisted for NS:
You
need to apply for an exit permit if you intend to travel or remain
overseas for 3 months or longer. Your parents/guardians will need to
furnish a bond, in the form of a Banker's Guarantee of S$75,000 or 50%
of the combined annual gross income of both parents for the preceding
year, whichever is higher.
Those who require exit permit of 2 years or longer will be required to furnish a bond. This bonding requirement is similar to the current arrangement where security in the form of Banker's Guarantee must be furnished. The amount of the security bond is S$75,000 or 50% of the combined gross annual income of both parents for the preceding year, whichever is higher. The monetary bond requirement for male citizens who accompany their parents on overseas employment may be waived and they be bonded by deed with two sureties.
Why must MINDEF impose exit controls on NS-liable
males?
Exit controls are necessary to ensure that NS-liable males who have
gone overseas to study or reside at a young age return to fulfil
their NS responsibilities.
Will young males aged 13 to 16.5 who fail to apply for an
exit permit be sentenced to imprisonment?
The penalty for exit permit offences of young males aged 13 to 16.5
will be a fine of up to $2,000, with no custodial sentences. They
will however be subjected to harsher penalties should they continue
to breach of the Enlistment Act after age 16.5.
Males above 16.5 years who travel and remain overseas without
applying for an exit permit would have committed an offence under
the Enlistment Act. They will be liable upon conviction to a fine
of up to $10,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years
or both.
National-service-liable males who migrated from Singapore before
age 11 and have not enjoyed significant socio-economic benefits of
citizenship (e.g., applied for a Singapore identity card or studied
in Singapore beyond the age of 11) are allowed to renounce their
Singapore citizenship, but not before they turn 21.
Until then, they are required to register for national service with
Central Manpower Base and apply for a deferment.
After turning 21, they are then eligible to renounce their
Singapore citizenship.
Generally, those who left Singapore after the age of 11 will be
deemed to have enjoyed the socio-economic benefits of Singapore.
They will not be allowed to renounce their Singapore citizenship
without fulfilling NS obligations.
References:
http://sgforums.com/topics/search?q=NS+Default&commit=Go&type=topics
http://sgforums.com/topics/search?q=NS+Desert&commit=Go&type=topics
http://sgforums.com/topics/search?q=NS+AWOL&commit=Go&type=topics
http://sgforums.com/topics/search?q=NS+Dual&commit=Go&type=topics
http://sgforums.com/topics/search?q=%2475%2C000&commit=Go&type=topics
Think about it...
If you run away, not only you, your parents pay the price too.
$75,000 of their money will be forfeited and gone to Singapore's $ State Reserve Fund.
The bond amount is $75,000 or an amount equivalent to 50% of the combined annual gross income of both your parents for the preceding year, whichever is higher.
You will not be able to travel to Singapore, even while on transit/ connecting flights...
If you want to meet your parents/ relatives living in Singapore, either they take a flight to visit you or both parties travel to neighouring Malaysia's Johor state to meet you.
See: http://sgforums.com/forums/1390/topics/409095
National-service-liable males who migrated from Singapore before
age 11 and have not enjoyed significant socio-economic benefits of
citizenship (e.g., applied for a Singapore identity card or studied
in Singapore beyond the age of 11) are allowed to renounce their
Singapore citizenship, but not before they turn 21.
Until then, they are required to register for national service with
Central Manpower Base and apply for a deferment.
After turning 21, they are then eligible to renounce their
Singapore citizenship.
Generally, those who left Singapore after the age of 11 will be
deemed to have enjoyed the socio-economic benefits of Singapore.
They will not be allowed to renounce their Singapore citizenship
without fulfilling NS obligations.
Laugh all you want now, but I felt sorry/ pity for your honourable parents to lose their $75,000 retirement money just because their ungrateful son's immature, unfilial, foolish and cowardly impending thinking and action.
We dare you to skip town altogether. Let us see who have the last laugh then.
Inspiring stories of the sons of Singapore returning to Singapore to dutifully serve NS:
http://sgforums.com/topics/search?q=Singaporean+Son&commit=Go&type=topics