How to Update Your SG Arrival Card After Submission (2026)

Can you edit your SG Arrival Card after submitting?

Yes. If your plans change or you spot a mistake after filing, you do not start over. ICA's e-Service has a built-in feature called “Update SGAC” that edits an existing submission, free of charge, at ica.gov.sg. Correct the fields that changed, submit again, and a fresh acknowledgment arrives by email.

One update matters more than all the others. ICA explicitly tells travelers to use Update SGAC when their health status changes after submitting, because a false declaration is an offence under the Infectious Diseases Act. If you filed your card healthy and develop a fever two days before flying, updating is the rule, not a courtesy.

The feature is free, like the card itself. We are an independent filing service: for $19 we submit the SGAC for travelers who would rather not deal with the portal, and our customers send corrections to us and we refile at no charge. ICA does not support or endorse paid services, including ours. The official form is always free to submit and to fix yourself.

When you should update your SGAC after submission

Update SGAC exists for changes to a card that has already been filed and is still inside its window. Use it when:

The pattern in all of these: the arrival is still happening, and one detail on the record is wrong. Correct the detail; do not file a second card beside the first.

Reasons to use Update SGAC

• Your health status changes: symptoms such as fever, rash, cough, or a sore throat appear after you filed, or you need to correct the health declaration for any reason.
• Your flight changes: a new flight number, a new arrival time, or a new arrival date in Singapore within the same trip.
• Where you are staying changes: a different hotel, a changed booking, or a move to a friend's or relative's address.
• You spot a typo in your trip or contact details, most often a mistyped email address.
• Your mode of travel changes, for example you now cross from Malaysia by land instead of flying.

How to use Update SGAC, step by step

The sequence on the official e-Service:

The exact screens follow ICA's current design, so answer whatever the service presents on the day. The principle does not change: one existing card, corrected, not a second card filed beside it. If you have never filed at all, this is the wrong feature — the filing steps are in how to apply for the SGAC.

Updating a submitted SGAC

• Step 1: Open the official SGAC page on ica.gov.sg and go to the e-Service. Check the address bar before you type anything.
• Step 2: Choose the Update SGAC option.
• Step 3: Enter the details the service asks for to find your submission, which are the passport number and date of birth exactly as you filed them.
• Step 4: Confirm the record is yours, then edit the fields that need correcting, including the health declaration if that is what changed.
• Step 5: Submit, watch for the new acknowledgment email, and keep it until you clear immigration.

What you can change and what you cannot

Most fields describe your trip, and trip details are exactly what changes. Identity details are different: the card is matched against your passport at clearance, so a mismatching name or passport number must be fixed properly, not patched.

Worked scenarios: plans change, cards get fixed

Five situations that come up constantly, and the right move in each:

Resubmission logic: one arrival, one card

The SGAC covers one arrival. That single rule answers most resubmission questions. A correction to a trip that is still happening is an update to the existing card. A trip that moves outside the window, or a second entry after you leave Singapore, is a new arrival with its own card and its own window.

Worked dates. You planned to arrive Friday 13 November 2026, so your window opened Wednesday 11 November. The trip slips to Friday 27 November. The old card belongs to an arrival that no longer happens; file a new one when the new window opens on Tuesday 24 November 2026.

Do not file duplicate cards for the same arrival just in case. If the update lookup finds your card, the record exists, and duplicates create confusion rather than safety. Fix the one card instead. The wider timing rules are covered in the complete Singapore Arrival Card guide.

If you would rather hand the corrections to someone

The honest summary: updating the card yourself on the official e-Service is free and takes minutes. Our $19 service exists for travelers who want the whole job handled, corrections included, with the acknowledgment forwarded within 24 hours and a full refund if we fail to deliver.

Start my application, or open the official e-Service at ica.gov.sg and use Update SGAC yourself. Either way, fix changes before you arrive, not at the counter.

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