Entry Requirements and Social Visit Pass

Here you’ll find a check list for entry requirements to Singapore. If everything ok, you’ll be given social visit pass by the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers at any entry point.

The basic entry requirements are:

• At least 6 months validity of your passport;
• Valid Singapore visa, if applicable;
• Enough money to last for the intended period of stay in Singapore;
• Confirmed onward/ return tickets (where applicable); and
• Entry facilities to your onward destination e.g. visas.
• Holding the International Certificate of Vaccination for yellow fever if you (including infant over one year old age) have passed through any country endemic for yellow fever within the preceding six days as follow:

  Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Columbia, Congo, Cote d’Ivorie, Democratic Rep of Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea,

  Ethiopia, French Guyana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Rwanda,

  Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Rep of Tanzania, and Venezuela.

Also, do take note of the number of days given to you before leaving the checkpoint as stamped in your passport and Disembarkation/Embarkation Card (or D/E card) or known as white card. You may need them to make some purchases in Singapore such as buying electronic goods, Singapore Tourist Pass, or shop for other items.

If you want to extend your social visit pass than what stated in your passport, you can apply for the visit pass extension at the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA).

The detail information of the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority:

Visitor Services Centre, 4th floor, ICA Building
10 Kallang Road, Singapore 208718
(Next to Lavender MRT station),
Tel: +65 6391 6100 Fax: +65 6298 0843 / 6298 0837.

Application for extension of stay is subjected to approval.

You shall also know that you are not allowed to engage in any form of business, profession, occupation or paid employment in Singapore while you are traveling on social visit pass.

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