Meaning of the “Have you ever been refused entry or deported from any country, including Singapore?” question

I was denied a visitor visa for Singapore (reason unknown). Now when asked:

Have you ever been refused entry or deported from any country, including Singapore?

do I check Yes? In other words, does 'entry denial' include visa rejection too (or just being turned back at the airport, etc.)?

Best Answer

On the Singapore Visa Application page, under important notes is the following statement:

A Singapore visa is not an immigration pass. It is a pre-entry permission for the holder of a valid Singapore visa to travel to, and seek entry, into Singapore. The grant of an immigration pass will be determined by the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers at the point of entry. Possession of a valid visa alone does not guarantee entry into Singapore.

This would seem to indicate that a denied visa is not a refused entry. After all, they are saying their visa is simply a means to travel to Singapore and seek entry into it.

Contacting the consulate for your country would, of course, be preferable.

Also, remember that they are asking if you have ever been deported from or refused entry to any other country as well. Other countries may consider a visa refusal/denial as refused entry.

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Have you ever been removed or deported from any country meaning?

If you were let in the country and officials of that country later came to get you and made sure you left either in their custody or made sure you got on a plane with them watching, you were \u201cdeported\u201d or \u201cremoved\u201d.

What does it mean to be refused admission into a country?

Denied admission is when you have a visa and you show up at the border and, for some reason, you are not allowed to enter the country. There could be many reasons for that. The border office doesn't believe that you will leave at the end of your allowed stay.

What happens if you are refused entry?

If you are denied entry by US Immigration, the airline is responsible to fly you back to your country of origin - or at least wherever your arriving flight came from.

Is denied entry the same as deported?

In either case, being denied entry into the United States at a port of entry is not the same as being deported. To be deported from the US, you would need to be allowed into the country first, and an Immigration Court judge would have to issue a removal order.

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