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A man in Singapore was fined $2,000 <\/strong>on July 10 after he made false declarations when applying for his wife’s visa.<\/p>\n Tan Kim Lam, 65, was arrested along with his wife, Lin Qiaoming, by Immigrations and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers on May 8 following an investigation into the offence.<\/p>\n He is the first person to be prosecuted under section 57(1)(ka) of the Immigration Act 1959, which came into effect on Dec 31, 2024.<\/p>\n Tan first met Lin, now 49, <\/strong>in 2002 through mutual friends in Singapore. Lin was a social visitor at the time.<\/p>\n Lin, a Chinese national, <\/strong>then left Singapore illegally to avoid detection as she had failed to regularise her stay after her social visit pass had expired, ICA said.<\/p>\n After returning to China, Tan and Lin still kept in touch.<\/p>\n Lin purportedly entered Singapore multiple times between 2009 and 2015 under an assumed identity to avoid being identified for her previous offences.<\/p>\n Despite lacking proficiency in English, Tan acted as her sponsor for her visa applications under the assumed identity.<\/p>\n He sought assistance from form writers, <\/strong>who helped Tan to complete and submit relevant documents.<\/p>\n Entering Singapore, she married another Singaporean, before divorcing in April 2015 and returning to China once more.<\/p>\n She kept up correspondence with Tan, and the duo entered into a relationship thereafter.<\/p>\n In 2017, Lin applied for a passport using her real identity to visit Tan and succeeded in entering Singapore multiple times until 2023 with the latter sponsoring her visa applications.<\/p>\n On April 28, 2023, they got married in China.<\/p>\n In June last year, Tan sponsored Lin’s long-term visit pass (LTVP), again utilising a form writer to fill and submit the required documents to ICA.<\/p>\n In his application, he purportedly declared that Lin did not have any other identification with different particulars, which ICA determined to be false as Lin had a passport with the assumed identity she allegedly used to enter Singapore between 2009 and 2015.<\/p>\n Tan failed to take steps to verify whether Lin had other identity documents before signing the application, ICA stated. Lin subsequently received an LTVP on Sept 12, 2025.<\/p>\n “Had ICA known that Lin in fact had a passport bearing an assumed identity, ICA would not have issued the LTVP to her,” the authority stated.<\/p>\n According to ICA, Tan was unaware that Lin had used an assumed identity in her previous visa applications.<\/p>\n But he can be liable if false or misleading information is provided in his visa application, even if he claims to be unaware, the authority said.<\/p>\n Those convicted of the offence can be fined up to $4,000.<\/p>\n ICA advised: “Applicants and local sponsors are reminded that they are responsible for ensuring that the information provided in their applications are true and accurate.”<\/p>\n [[nid:740967]]<\/p>\n khooyihang@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A man in Singapore was fined $2,000 on July 10 after he made false declarations when applying for his wife’s visa. Tan Kim Lam, 65,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Past catches up<\/h2>\n
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