Contact! Case Officer assigned!

Well what do you know? Woke up today to find that a case officer had finally been assigned.

For the curious, application was made on 11 Jan (2015) and case officer assigned on 19 Mar. That's 68 days of waiting and thumb twiddling.

Once you've received the email from the case officer, you have 28 days to respond to his/her request for additional information. Failure to do so means they will proceed on whatever information they have on hand. Taking a guess here but I think that would mean a no-go for the applicant.

Anyway, mine was short of two items - Military Service Record and Police Clearance Certificate. We forgot to upload the military service record, which we will do so today. Wifey and I will be going down tomorrow to set our police clearance certificates in motion. By the way, you can only do so after the case officer has contacted you because in their email, there'll be a request form from them to the Singapore Police that they require the certificate of clearance.

Application for the Certificate of Clearance can only be done between 8.30am to 12pm, Mondays to Fridays, excluding public holidays. You know what that means - leave has to be taken to apply AND collect.

Applications are only accepted at the Police Cantonment Complex at New Bridge Road. A $55 fee will be exacted for each applicant. Expect a processing time of up to 10 working days.

Documents needed prior to heading down are;

• application form - link
• photocopy of applicant's valid passport (bring along original for verification!)
• 2 recent passport sized photos (3.5cm by 4.5cm, borderless with white background)
• photocopy of document from your case officer requesting for the certificate of clearance
• bring your fingers, all 10 of them! (fingerprint impressions will be taken for your CoC)

Will share more when the deed is done on the morrow.