20,693 Singapore Citizenship applications approved in 2012

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20,693 Singapore Citizenship applications were approved last year.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Ms Grace Fu, provided these numbers in Parliament today.

Ms Fu also revealed that between 2008 and 2012, an average of 4,100 new Permanent Residents and a similar number of new Singapore Citizens each year were foreign spouses sponsored by Singaporeans.

Of these, 82 per cent of Permanent Residents and 92 per cent of new Singapore Citizens were females.

Members of Parliament questioned whether the government has a discerning criteria in citizenship approval, to which Ms Fu replied criteria is not based on a single but a whole set of criteria used to evaluate citizenship applications.

She said this set of criteria is reviewed from time to time, in ensuring the set meets the country’s immigration needs.