There's been a lot of talk over the weekend about how Singaporean vlogger Amos Yee successfully secured asylum in the United States, after an immigration court judge ruled in his favour.

Among other things of note, the following eight-point rationale detailed in immigration judge Samuel B. Cole's judgement explains how he came to the conclusion that the 18-year-old Yee suffered persecution for his political opinions:

“First the video 'Lee Kuan Yew is Finally Dead'… was scathing in its criticism of not just Yew (LKY) but of the Singapore regime in general.

Second, religion was only tangential to the video. The video is almost entirely about Yew (LKY) and Singapore, and its discussions of religion were only used to make a point about Yee’s dismal opinion of Yew.

Third, the public response to the video was entirely about its criticism of Yew (LKY), not about its offense to religion.

Fourth, the evidence presented showed that Yee’s prison sentence was unusually long and harsh, especially for a young offender.

Fifth, the terms of Yee’s pre-trial release prohibited him from posting to social media. These restrictions were also highly unusual and restrictive and served the main purpose to silence Yee’s criticism of the government.

Sixth, other people who made disparaging comments about religions but who were not similarly critical of the Singapore regime avoided prosecution. These include Calvin Cheng and Jason Neo… Both made comments critical of Islam, equating Muslims with terrorists. Neither was charged.

Seventh, regarding the obscenity charge related to the line drawing, many more-explicit pictures are available to the Singapore public and do not result in prosecutions. But this particular drawing had the face of Yew (LKY) superimposed on one of the figures…. This again raises the inference that the prosecution was politically motivated.

Eighth... this is the modus operandi for the Singapore regime – critics of the government are silenced by civil suit for defamation or criminal prosecutions.”

Now, it's likely Yee will be released on Monday in the U.S.; a statement from Grossman Law, the firm representing Yee pro-bono, said Yee's lawyer Sandra Grossman has contacted the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement government department to "secure Yee's immediate release" from detention.

There currently isn't any information available about where he will be going or who he will be living with, but one fact hasn't been made clear just yet.

It has the initials "N" and "S"

A Dec. 23, 2016 report from Channel NewsAsia highlighted this detail in its concluding paragraph:

Now, Yee served his latest Singapore jail term in Tanah Merah Prison from Oct. 13 to Nov. 2, 2016. He was allowed to serve his remaining sentence at home; this would have ended on or around Nov. 23.

Three weeks and two days later, though, he flew to the U.S., where he was detained at Chicago's O'Hare Airport upon his announcement that he was seeking political asylum from Singapore.

He then spent more time than his combined jail terms in Singapore in McHenry County Jail in Illinois, as well as Dodge County Detention Facility in Wisconsin, until he finally got a hearing for his asylum bid, and two-plus weeks later, successfully got it approved.

But maybe this was the plan all along

It's possible, although never explicitly said, that part of Yee's motivation to seek political asylum in the Land of the Free is exactly this.

Now, in 2015, he posted a screenshot of his registration for NS, accompanying an explanation for his intentions to serve: