The Multi-Ministry Taskforce regularly reviews Singapore’s border measures to manage the risk of importation and onward local transmission from travellers. Given the resurgence of COVID-19 cases around the world, we will be putting in place more stringent measures for travellers to manage the risk of importation. For the latest updates on border control measures in Singapore, please visit the Singapore Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s (ICA) website https:/www.ica.gov.sg/enter-transit-depart/entering-singapore.
Singapore is now a signatory of the Hague Apostille Convention with effect from 20 Jan 2021. Therefore, the Singapore Embassy will no longer accept requests for legalization services covered under the Convention.
Singapore and MERCOSUR launched negotiations for a MERCOSUR-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (MSFTA) on 23 July 2018. MERCOSUR is a South American customs union comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It is a collective market of more than 260 million people and a GDP of US$2.5 trillion.
There will finally be only one spelling in Portuguese. To-date, all dictionaries accept both spelling. However, in accordance with the provision in the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990, which came into force only in 2009 and which will be binding on all Portuguese-speaking countries from 1 January 2016, the dual spelling will cease to be accepted. With effect from 1 January 2016, only one spelling will be correct in Portuguese: "Singapura"!
