Cidadania por registo através do casamento (cônjuge de um cidadão)

Cenários de exemplo

Os cenários de exemplo são exibidos em inglês.

• eligible

  Art 123(2) allows a WOMAN married to a Singapore citizen to be registered as a citizen if she satisfies the Government that she has resided continuously in Singapore for not less than 2 years immediately preceding the application, intends to reside permanently, and is of good character (SG-E2-007). Maria meets all three constitutional conditions (2.5 years continuous residence > 2-year minimum). ICA administrative practice additionally expects PR >= 2 years AND marriage >= 2 years with the citizen spouse sponsoring (SG-E2-009), both met. Unlike naturalisation (Art 127), the spousal registration route does not require national-language adequacy. She must take ORAL (Art 126(1)/SG-E2-008). Eligible, subject to Government satisfaction.

• conditional

  The constitutional spousal registration route in Art 123(2) is, by its express terms, available to 'any WOMAN who is married to a citizen of Singapore' (SG-E2-007). It is gender-specific and does not on its face extend to a male spouse of a female citizen. James cannot register under Art 123(2). He may instead pursue general registration under Art 123(1) (if he meets the residence/character/language conditions) or naturalisation under Art 127, both available to him as a long-resident PR, but those routes carry the standard residence thresholds and are discretionary. Outcome is conditional: ineligible under the gender-specific marriage route, but with alternative general-registration/naturalisation paths. (Note: ICA administrative family schemes may treat spouses more flexibly than the bare constitutional text; the constitutional marriage route itself is the woman-married-to-citizen provision.)

• ineligible

  Art 123(2)(a) requires the applicant woman to have 'resided continuously in Singapore for a period of not less than 2 years immediately preceding the date of the application' (SG-E2-007). Anya has only 13 months of residence, short of the 2-year constitutional minimum, and also falls short of the ICA administrative expectation of PR >= 2 years and marriage >= 2 years (SG-E2-009). She is presently ineligible for marriage-based registration. She would become eligible to apply once the 2-year continuous-residence (and administrative marriage-duration) conditions are met. Ineligible as of the application date.

• conditional

  A woman who is a Singapore citizen by registration under Art 123(2) may be DEPRIVED of citizenship if the Government is satisfied she has acquired the citizenship of a country outside Singapore by virtue of her marriage to a person who is not a Singapore citizen (Art 134(1)(b); SG-E2-011). Fatima acquired a foreign citizenship 'by virtue of her marriage' to a non-Singapore-citizen husband, squarely within Art 134(1)(b). Deprivation is discretionary ('the Government MAY, by order, deprive') and administrative, preceded by Art 133 notice and a committee-of-inquiry right (SG-E2-025). Outcome is conditional: she remains a citizen unless and until the Government makes a deprivation order. This is the 'spouse acquiring foreign citizenship by marriage -> Art 134(1)(b)' edge case.

• conditional

  Art 129(6) permits the Government to deprive of citizenship a woman who is a citizen by registration under Art 123(2) if satisfied that the marriage by virtue of which she was registered has been dissolved, otherwise than by death, within the period of 2 years beginning with the date of the marriage (SG-E2-010). Linda's marriage was dissolved by divorce at 18 months (< 2 years from the date of marriage), engaging Art 129(6). Deprivation is discretionary and runs through the Art 133 procedure (notice + committee of inquiry). Outcome is conditional: she is not automatically stripped, but is exposed to discretionary deprivation. (Had the marriage ended by the husband's DEATH, or after 2 years, this ground would not apply.)

• eligible

  Under the constitutional marriage route (Art 123(2)), the conditions are continuous residence of not less than 2 years immediately preceding the application, intention to reside permanently, and good character (SG-E2-007) - there is NO national-language adequacy requirement (that requirement belongs to naturalisation under Art 127(1)(c), not to spousal registration) (SG-E2-009). Jasmine meets the 2-year continuous-residence (3 years), intention and character conditions, and the ICA administrative expectations (PR >= 2 years, marriage >= 2 years) are satisfied. She need not pass a national-language test for this route. She must take ORAL (Art 126(1)). Eligible, subject to Government satisfaction and divestment of Malaysian citizenship.