{"schemaVersion":1,"passportCode":"SG","passportUrl":"https://multipassrank.com/passport/singapore","scope":"Selected country-topic summaries; not a complete account of citizenship law or personal tax liability. These facts do not change mobility scores.","review":null,"reviewScope":"A common review is provided only when all topics share one approval. Otherwise consult each topic's review; no collection means no review.","reviews":[{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/review_pass412","reviewedAt":"2026-09-22","recheckBy":"2026-12-21","candidateSha256":"f83a1dec9ca431a112d88e2ad9acab601ae4c6f751c65867a56785ce0f4b9223","notes":"Independent source review: opened the actual ICA application page and all four retained ICA AskGov answers on 22 September 2026. Rechecked the six retained facts and four additions against their actual bodies. 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Required and rechecked corrections preserving Ireland's discretionary dependent-young-adult student-residence exception and Singapore's continuous-stay and 183-day tax-concession conditions; Canada's tax-filing wording was also clarified. UAE Articles 8, 9 bis, 11 and 12 bis were checked in both extracted Arabic and rendered PDF pages, and the PDF was independently reached through ICP's current laws-and-legislation listing. Approval of UAE facts is limited to the explicitly dated 20 September 2021 consolidation and does not establish an open application route, later implementing measures or practical obtainability. Tax topics remain baseline individual frameworks, not personal tax calculations. Missing language levels, India renunciation procedure and UAE practical availability remain explicitly unresolved. No visa evidence, statistical indicators, rendering, promotion or deployment is approved by this record. 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