Singapore's immigration landscape shifted significantly in February 2026 when Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong announced that the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) plans to grant approximately 40,000 Permanent Residencies per year over the next five years. That figure represents a meaningful step up from the roughly 35,000 PRs granted in 2025 — itself the [...]
The Singapore government announced in February 2026 that it will grant approximately 40,000 permanent residencies per year over the next five years — the most significant upward revision to PR intake targets in over fifteen years. For the hundreds of thousands of foreign professionals who call Singapore home, this announcement raises an immediate question: does [...]
Most guides on Singapore permanent residency tell you the criteria. Very few are willing to discuss the odds. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) does not publish approval rates, rejection reasons, or a scoring matrix. What exists is a combination of ICA's own eligibility guidance, official approval statistics, and the accumulated intelligence of practitioners who [...]
In February 2026, Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong told Parliament that Singapore will grant between 25,000 and 30,000 new citizenships annually over the next five years, and increase PR approvals to approximately 40,000 per year. The announcement—driven by Singapore's record-low total fertility rate of 0.87 in 2025 and demographic projections showing a shrinking citizen [...]
On 26 February 2026, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong told Parliament that Singapore will grant citizenship to 25,000 to 30,000 people annually over the next five years. This is the most significant upward adjustment to Singapore's citizenship and permanent residency intake targets in over a decade, and it [...]
In February 2026, Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong announced that Singapore would increase its permanent residency (PR) intake to approximately 40,000 approvals per year from 2026 to 2030 — up from around 35,000 in recent years. That headline figure arrived on the back of equally significant news: in 2024, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority [...]
Singapore's Budget 2026 contained a piece of immigration news that deserves careful reading by every Employment Pass and S Pass holder considering Permanent Residence. The government confirmed that annual PR approvals will rise to approximately 40,000 — up from roughly 34,500 in recent years — sustained over the next five years. For qualified foreign professionals [...]
Singapore’s Singapore PR intake 2026 landscape has shifted meaningfully. At the Budget 2026 Committee of Supply debate, Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong confirmed that Singapore plans to grant approximately 40,000 Permanent Residence (PR) approvals annually over the next five years — up from approximately 35,000 granted in 2024. The announcement drew attention not only [...]
At Budget 2026, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced that Singapore would increase annual Permanent Resident (PR) approvals to approximately 40,000 per year over the next five years — up from roughly 34,500 granted in 2024. For the more than 180,000 Employment Pass and S Pass holders working in Singapore, this headline has generated both optimism [...]
Singapore's annual permanent resident approvals are set to rise to approximately 40,000 per year over the next five years — a notable increase from the roughly 35,000 PRs granted in the previous year. Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong confirmed the target during the Budget 2026 Committee of Supply debate on 26 February 2026, framing [...]