Singapore will still issue new passports to children already abducted to Singapore (and returned to the US).
Hello and here is an update on Christopher and William Ko who were abducted to Singapore but returned after 18 months.
Their mother Yu Xin Mei Wang has gone back to court with a new motion to allow her to have unsupervised visitation outside of a visitation center, include her Singapore relatives in visitation, and allow her to have the children's school, medical and dental records.
Attached are 2 emails from Ms. Janet Phua at the Singapore Consulate in San Francisco that the Taking Parent provided to the Court : (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ksaaz0ppEyUkY1TGNaXzVQMmc/edit?usp=sharing ). The Singapore Consulate knows about the abduction and return of the children from Singapore yet they confirm to the mother that she can still renew or apply for new passports for the children. Seems like child abduction prevention is not important.
Then they add that there is nothing they can do to deny the boys passports as they are "entitled." That is what another Consular staff Lea Chan told me in Sep2009 when we were looking for the boys and found out they had new Singapore passports. Lea Chan told me the same thing: "they are entitled to Singapore passports" and US laws on dual parental consent does not apply to them.
Now that they know the boys' country of habitual residence is the US one would think they would commit to not issuing new passports for the boys. Just incredible.
NCMEC provided me an updated Affidavit on abduction risks and stated that Singapore is now part of the Hague Convention since May 2012 but there are still 4 cases of children abducted to Singapore that are more than 2 years old where the children have not been returned.
Send the Singapore Consulate an email and ask them why they will still issue passports to children already abducted once using Singapore passports!
Singapore must take child abduction seriously and consider it a crime. Singapore always tells other nations they don't have to agree with their laws but only have to respect them. Well, it goes both ways.
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