Changing Immigration Offices

[mamypoko]

Hi all,

Status changed yesterday from "Selected" to "Decision Successful" yay~

However, the ITA email that came along says that my application has been assigned to the Shanghai branch. I'm in Malaysia and I understand that there's an office down in Singapore. I'm not sure why I was assigned to an office that's so far away when there's one just an hours' flight away.

Has anyone experienced this before? Will I be able to request INZ for a change of office from Shanghai to Singapore?

Thanks in advance!

[JandM]

Congratulations!

No idea about the reason for the change and whether it can be queried - ask INZ?

[eternalkiwi]

Singapore receives residence visa applications and temporary entry visa applications for Afghanistan, Brunei, Malaysia, Maldives, Seychelles, and Singapore, therefore I would suspect that unless you were moving to live in one of these countries your application could not be moved to Singapore.

Shawn

[mamypoko]

Thanks for the replies

@eternalwiki - Really strange eh, they process visa applications for my country but not ITA applications. I'll try emailing the staff on this matter and we'll wait and see what they say.

[Sun777]

INZ Singapore seems to be very small office so I suspect they actually process applications there (worth checking with INZ though)., recently couple of forum members mentioned that their application was transferred from Asian branches to London.