IMPORTANT NOTICE! On November 23, U.S. Customs and Border Protection introduced new features to the Electronic Travel System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) website, the portal through which prospective Visa Waiver Program travelers can apply to travel to the United States.  The new features offer users added convenience and security. The enhanced ESTA website greets users …

“Effective September 9, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will resume the Trusted Traveler Program (TTP) interviews at the U.S. Embassy Singapore.  Interviews for the Global Entry/U.S. APEC Business Travel Card programs will be provided for applicants that are conditionally approved only.” Interview guidance: Due to COVID-19, the wearing of a mask is required …

Congratulations to the 2018 recipients of the U.S.-Singapore 50 Summer Exchange Scholarship Programme! On July 18, we welcomed seven of the American scholarship recipients to the Embassy to learn about their experience in Singapore this summer.  Chargé d’Affaires Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath and two representatives from Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also joined the discussion. The Programme, …

U.S. Embassy Singapore Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath provided opening remarks at the Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Regional Workshop organized by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in coordination with U.S. Department of State, Export Control and Related Border Security. The workshop brought together experts to share best practices in order to foster the capability of …

Dr. Sam Wasser, Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, cuts a small piece of ivory sample from 3,500 kilograms of illicit elephant ivory seized by the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore in March 2018.  Ivory samples were sent for DNA analysis as part of the ongoing U.S.- Singapore collaboration in …

On March 28, the U.S. Embassy and AmCham Singapore partnered to host ABC News anchor Kendis Gibson for a talk and networking event.  Kendis shed light on how ABC verifies that the information they report  is accurate. Their goal, he emphasized, is to be right, not first.  He also advised media consumers to be vigilant …

August 15, 2017 SECRETARY TILLERSON: Morning, all. We are releasing today the 2016 International Religious Freedom Report. This report is a requirement pursuant to the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 – legislation that upholds religious freedom as a core American value under the Constitution’s First Amendment, as well as a universal human right. This law calls for the government …

Remarks by Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson at the 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report Launch Ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC. on June 27, 2017. 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report   [   Singapore  ]

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross met with Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry) S Iswaran in Los Angeles on May 2, 2017.  Both leaders reaffirmed the robust and longstanding economic ties between the U.S. and Singapore, and discussed ways to facilitate business opportunities for companies through the U.S.-Singapore Collaboration Platform Memorandum of Understand (MoU). Secretary Ross …

U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security John Kelly met with Singapore Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law Mr. K. Shanmugam in Washington, D.C. on April 26, 2017.  Minister Shanmugam and Secretary Kelly exchanged views on the threat of global terrorism and the challenges posed by radicalisation in Southeast Asia.      [ Photo courtesy …

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met Singapore Deputy Prime Minister  Tharman Shanmugaratnam  in Washington on April 20, 2017. They underscored the long history of cooperation between the U.S. and Singapore and discussed economic issues involving both countries  [ Steven Mnuchin’s Twitter Photo ] [  Readout from Treasury Department  ]

On April 4, the aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) , arrived in Singapore on a routine port visit.  It was accompanied by the cruiser USS Lake Champlain and the destroyer USS WAYNE E. MEYER ( DDG 108) – all part of the Carl Vinson Strike Group.  More than 6,000 American men and women, representing all 50 U.S. states, are assigned to ships and aircraft squadrons …

The U.S.-Singapore Summer Exchange Scholarship Program was announced during Singapore Prime Minister  Lee Hsien Loong ’s official visit to the U.S. in 2016.   It commemorates the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Singapore and the U.S.  The scholarship program seeks to strengthen the excellent relations between Singapore and the United States  and is jointly funded by the Government of Singapore and …

U.S. Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson meets with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan at the Department of State , March 22, 2017.  [ State Department Photo ] Dr. Balakrishnan was in Washington D.C. to participate in the Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Global Coalition on the Defeat of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). …

Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and his wife Joy met with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at a United Nations General Assembly reception on September 21, 2016.

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