Adjustment of Singapore's Immigration Policy
China students do not need to apply for an entry approval letter from 22nd.
According to the latest news from Singapore Immigration Bureau, long-term permit holders (excluding WP holders with work permits) include approval letter holders in principle. If they arrive in Singapore after 23:59 on February 2 1 2022, they do not need to apply for an entry approval letter as long as they have a valid license and a qualified vaccination certificate.
In principle, the letter holder is approved, that is, after successfully applying for the Singapore student pass, the Immigration Bureau will send an IPA letter to him by mail. IPA letter is the proof of immigration approval, which is the so-called visa! Long-term permit holders who entered Singapore before 23:59 on February 2 1 2022 still need an entry permit to enter Singapore!
Long-term permit holders in Singapore include the following: student permit, special permit SP, employment permit EP, family permit DP, long-term visit permit LTVP, and labor permit WP. At present, only WP license holders still need to apply for entry on or after February 22, and other license holders only need to hold valid licenses and vaccination certificates that meet the requirements.
1. Notes for Long-term Permit Holders to Enter Singapore
All holders of long-term passes and IPA who entered Singapore on or after February 22nd must stay in China for 7 days before leaving China, and have never been to other countries or regions.
2. Appropriate purchase of coronary heart disease insurance before departure.
Before entering Singapore, employers must purchase medical insurance for all (new and existing) work permits, training work permits and S- permit holders.
All other permit holders (such as employment permit holders or their families) are advised to purchase appropriate medical insurance before entering Singapore. If you develop symptoms of coronary heart disease or test positive within 14 days after your arrival in Singapore, you must bear the medical expenses yourself.
3. Submit the electronic health declaration online 3 days before entry.
Three days before arriving in Singapore, log on to the website, fill in and submit the electronic health statement.
4. Nucleic acid detection within 48 hours before departure
All passengers are required to have a nucleic acid test 48 hours before departure and get a negative report.
Reporting requirements:
◎ In internationally recognized laboratories/clinics/medical institutions, rapid antigen detection (ART) is conducted by trained professionals or polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
◎ The report is in English, or there is an English translation.
◎ Including passenger's name, date of birth or passport number (Singapore passport), dental crown disease test result and test date.
5. Art test within 24 hours after entry.
Within 24 hours after arriving in China (before 25th), I took a professional art test (about S $65,438+05) and isolated myself until I knew the negative result. Passengers arriving in Singapore from Hong Kong on or after February 25th are required to fulfill the 7-day notice of stay at home and have a coronary artery disease test before the end of quarantine.
Canada implements new immigration regulations
The test isolation has changed and will take effect on February 28th.
1. Incoming passengers don't need nucleic acid testing, so cancel sampling testing and wait for the results to be isolated.
Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced that from February 28th, fully vaccinated passengers entering Canada will no longer need to undergo pre-arrival nucleic acid testing, such as PCR.
Molecular testing (PCR testing) is no longer mandatory within 72 hours before entering Canada. On the contrary, passengers can choose to have a rapid antigen test (coronavirus pneumonia-19) the day before entry, or they can choose to have a molecular test within 72 hours before entry.
The compulsory entry virus test for all inbound passengers who have been fully vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccine was changed to random sampling. The selected passengers do not need to be isolated while waiting for the test results.
2. Children who have been vaccinated don't need to be isolated, and foreigners who haven't been vaccinated can't enter Canada.
/kloc-children under the age of 0/2 can continue to be isolated from their peers who have been vaccinated throughout the whole process, that is, they can enter schools, child care centers or other crowded environments immediately after entering the country.
Passengers who have not been vaccinated with the approved vaccine, all existing regulations remain unchanged, and they still need to be quarantined for 14 days after entry, and will be tested by coronavirus pneumonia-19 on the day of entry and the eighth day after entry. And 14 test and continuous 14 isolation. Foreigners who are not vaccinated cannot enter Canada. At present, only passengers who meet a few necessary reasons can enter Canada without vaccination.
3. Canada Customs updated food entry regulations and strictly strengthened supervision.
Recently, Canadian Customs has also updated the food entry regulations and strengthened the strict supervision of imported goods and overseas online shopping food.
Ps 1: Passengers who want to bring food into Canada should pay attention to the import requirements and maximum quantity of Canadian federal and provincial governments before entering Canada.
Ps2: declare in advance is required for entry, and the food carried may be inspected at entry points (such as border crossings and airports).
◎ The prohibited foods are eggs, fresh meat, dried meat and bacon.
◎ jiaozi with minced meat/jiaozi with minced meat/braised eggs/beef jerky/bird's nest/hot pot, etc. Is prohibited from being brought into this country.
◎ Many fish are classified as susceptible species. Passengers should not carry any fish products (including canned fish).
Tips:
Every year, many people are confiscated or fined for bringing unauthorized food into the country, and some people are even blacklisted.
◎ If you are not sure whether a certain food meets the entry requirements, you can check the current customs entry requirements for related foods through the Automated Import Reference System (AIRS) system.
New Zealand reopened its borders.
International passengers will be exempted from quarantine when they enter the country.
On February 28th, according to the latest decision of the New Zealand government, starting from the evening of March 2nd 1 1: 59, the requirement of self-isolation for international travelers who received COVID-19 vaccine within seven days after their arrival in New Zealand was cancelled; The border restart plan originally planned to be implemented from mid-March will be advanced to the afternoon of March 4th 1 1: 59, so as to speed up the pace of border restart in New Zealand.
According to the "five-step" border restart plan previously announced by the New Zealand government, since February 28, New Zealanders and other eligible passengers who have returned from Australia and have been fully vaccinated only need to isolate themselves until the evening of March 2 1 1: 59, when the new regulations will come into effect; From March 4th, New Zealanders who have been fully vaccinated and other qualified travelers returning from other parts of the world will be allowed to enter the country.
Japan will relax its immigration policy in March.
Many universities plan to introduce online course system to attract foreign students.
Japanese media such as Asahi Shimbun reported that Japan will release entry restrictions in batches from March, and the number of daily arrivals will increase from the current 3,500 to 5,000. In response to this policy, Nosuke, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, said at the press conference on June 5438+08 that the relaxation of relevant policies will not set the entry priority according to visa types such as studying abroad, technical internship and business, but will be based on the flight time sequence of successful reservations of entry personnel.
According to the statistics of the Exit-Entry Administration of Japan, after 2020 1 month, there are about 407,000 foreigners who are certified as "staying" but have not entered the country, including about 1 10,000 international students and about 1 10,000 technical interns, accounting for about 70% of the total.
On the other hand, many universities in Japan are actively exploring teaching methods that are convenient for international students to carry out their studies because they are worried that it will be difficult for international students to enter the country and Japan will lose outstanding foreign talents. On the 24th, the University of Tsukuba announced the development of an online teaching system for overseas students, and more than 30 universities in Japan indicated that they would use the system. Through this network teaching system, universities can upload lecture videos and other contents to the system, and users can choose the required courses to study by visiting special websites. The system will start trial operation on March 10.
It is reported that in order to prevent the spread of Omicron virus, Japan refused all foreigners' new entry applications in principle from the end of 200211. On February 25th, the Japanese government announced that it began to accept new entry applications from foreigners through the immigration docking website opened by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. The Japanese government said that after relaxing the entry policy from March, newly arrived foreigners can be conditionally exempted from self-home isolation for seven days.