Q&A
Answer: EP is a work pass for foreign employees (management, supervisor or professional position). Applicants must serve as shareholders or senior managers in domestic companies and have more than 3 years of management experience.
Education: Full-time college degree or above.
Salary: Starting at S$5,000 (older and more experienced foreign commissioners must obtain a higher salary to apply for an employment pass).
Generally speaking, EP is the most suitable for "ordinary people" among the immigration channels in Singapore, and it is also the work pass with the most relaxed approval conditions in Singapore.
Answer: During the period of the applicant holding the EP permit, if the monthly salary is more than S$6000, the spouse and children under 21 years old can apply for a dependent visa (DP);
During the period of the applicant holding the EP permit, if the monthly salary declaration exceeds S$12,000, parents can apply for a long-term visitor visa (LTVP);
When EP applies for PR, the applicant's spouse and children under the age of 21 can submit the PR application together as a subsidiary applicant;
Parents and children 21 years of age or older cannot apply for PR together, but parents can apply for a Long-Term Visit Visa (LTVP) valid for 5 years.
Answer: About 3-4 months.
Answer: Of course NOT. Profits can be withdrawn and remitted abroad, but investment is not possible.
Answer: Singapore's passport is very easy to use. It is visa-free with more than 180 countries, including the United States, Japan, many European countries, and China and Australia only need an electronic visa.
Answer: No, you must cooperate with funds or industries.
Answer: There are no hard and fast requirements. Of course, the better the enterprise, the higher the success rate of the application.
Answer: The spouse can work legally, and the children can enroll in government public schools.
Answer: The spouse and children do not need to live, and the status is subject to the main applicant. The spouse and children of PR holders can apply for PR.
Answer: The government has no special requirements. It is recommended to live half of the time each year.
Answer: You can transfer to permanent residence after holding EP for two years, and you can apply for naturalization after holding permanent residence for two years.
You can apply for Singapore permanent resident PR if you have obtained the Employment Pass EP or Work Pass SP and have worked in Singapore for a certain number of years without any bad records and meet the application requirements.
Answer: No, but I have to go to Singapore after approval. After that, you can apply for a Re-entry Permit, which is a proof of return to Singapore. As long as you return to your country within the Re-entry Permit period, you can avoid losing your permanent resident status. After returning home, you can apply again.
Answer: Yes, you can apply right away. 6 months.
First-generation immigrants do not need to perform military service, but if your son also immigrated to Singapore because you are a permanent resident, he must perform military service.
Upon reaching 16½ years of age, they need to enlist for National Service (NS) and will serve two years of full-time NS at 18 years of age. Thereafter, they will serve intermittent duty as a citizen-soldier for a cycle of 10 years.
