Algeria → Singapore: Student's Pass

Your birth certificate, when the application asks for it.

Source: ICA, Student's Pass: Institutes of Higher Learning

The online application asks for your personal details, the countries you have lived in, your schooling, your work history and, for private schools, how your studies will be paid for. It also asks whether you have ever been refused entry to or deported from any country, or convicted in court. You pay a S$45 processing fee, which is not refunded. For universities and other higher learning institutes, apply at least 2 months and no more than 3 months before your course starts.

Source: ICA, eForm 16: Application for a Student's Pass

A copy of the page in your passport or travel document that shows your photo and personal details. Make sure the details you type in the application match it exactly.

Source: ICA, Student's Pass: Institutes of Higher Learning

A passport-sized, digital, colour photo of you, taken within the last 3 months.

Source: ICA, Student's Pass: Institutes of Higher Learning

Your school registers you with ICA first and gives you a Registration Acknowledgement Letter. You need it to start your Student's Pass application online. The course must be full-time, part-time, evening and weekend courses can't be used.

Source: ICA, Student's Pass: Institutes of Higher Learning

Your passport is on ICA's list of countries whose citizens need a visa to enter Singapore. For Student's Pass applicants, the visa is added to your In-Principle Approval (IPA) letter, and you show that letter at the immigration checkpoint when you arrive. Holders of some travel documents (such as refugee travel documents or Hong Kong SAR Documents of Identity) also need a visa. Processing can take up to two weeks when a visa is needed.

Source: ICA, Check if you need an entry visa

Personal information about your parents, and your spouse and brothers or sisters if this applies to you, plus your address and contact details in Singapore and your email address.

Source: ICA, Student's Pass: Approved Private Education Institutions

After your application is accepted in principle, bring every document listed in your IPA letter to the ICA Services Centre to complete formalities. The Student's Pass issuance fee is S$60, plus S$30 for a Multiple Journey Visa if you need one. The pass is issued in digital form.

Source: ICA, Completion of formalities and issuance of Student's Pass

If it applies to you, a doctor fills in ICA's Medical Examination Report after a chest X-ray (to check for TB) and an HIV test. Any registered doctor at a licensed clinic can do it, in your home country for a new application, but in Singapore if you are renewing. ICA only accepts the report within 3 months of the date it was issued.

Source: ICA, Medical Examination Report form

If you're going to a private education institution, ICA asks for your original documents, English translations of any document in another language, and copies of each document for ICA to keep.

Source: ICA, Student's Pass: Approved Private Education Institutions

If the student was born outside Singapore and is 12 years old or younger, their vaccination information must be sent to the Communicable Diseases Agency.

Source: Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), Becoming a Student's Pass holder