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Integrating New Citizens

To help new citizens adapt, the National Integration Council (NIC) was set up in April 2009 to promote integration through ground-up projects

Last updated 6 October 2025

Integrating New Citizens

Infographic of Singapore citizenships and PR status granted from 2008 to 2018
Citizenship ceremony in 2018

Images: National Archives of Singapore

New citizens taking the national pledge

Images: National Archives of Singapore

To overcome this, many of our participants agreed that daily interactions at the personal level is the best place to start from but we need to first overcome our initial inertia.
Ms Grace Fu, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth & Chairman of the National Integration Council (NIC), at the NIC Convention in 2019