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English proficiency test for new citizens vital to their integration here

The integration of new citizens into our multi-faceted community is very important to maintain the sense of cohesiveness and the accommodating society that we are all living in.

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Paul Antony Fernandez

The integration of new citizens into our multi-faceted community is very important to maintain the sense of cohesiveness and the accommodating society that we are all living in.

It is indeed a fact that many new citizens are not conversant either in spoken or written English, which is our mainstream language.

Hence, they tend to associate within their own population because they speak a common language.

I support making it mandatory for applicants seeking Singapore Citizenship to sit for and pass a test in both written and spoken English. Paul Antony Fernandez

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