Written Replies to Parliamentary Questions
Written Reply to Parliamentary Question on Non-spousal Sponsorship for Long Term Visit Pass Renewals, by Mr K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law
2 November 2025
Question:
Ms Carrie Tan: To ask the Minister for Home Affairs in each of the past five years, how many Long Term Visit Pass (LTVP) applicants have requested for non-spousal sponsorship for their LTVP renewals.
Answer:
1. In the past five years, the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) received an average of 24,255 applications each year from Long-Term Visit Pass (LTVP) holders who requested for the renewal of their pass through non-spousal sponsorship. These LTVP holders include children and parents of Singapore citizens and permanent residents. The breakdown of applications per year from 2015-2019 is as follows:
Table of the breakdown of applications per year, from 2015-2019
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
Number of LTVP renewal applications with non-spousal sponsors (unique) | 26,723 | 24,776 | 22,788 | 22,382 | 24,604 |