{"id":603,"date":"2026-09-04T12:29:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/case-studies\/a-diploma-a-bakery-and-an-employment-pass-in-six-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:24:11","slug":"a-diploma-a-bakery-and-an-employment-pass-in-six-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/a-diploma-a-bakery-and-an-employment-pass-in-six-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"A diploma, a bakery, and an Employment Pass in six weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xcasenote\">The case at a glance<\/div>\n<div class=\"xsum\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>A Shanghai bakery owner with a three-year diploma and years of building and running a business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>To extend the bakery to Singapore and use it as the centre of a wider international trading strategy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>A three-year diploma sits below what most people assume an Employment Pass requires.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>We incorporated a real operating company first so the pass sat on a genuine entity, then evidenced his management record and technical depth rather than leading with the qualification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xdiv\"><span>The full story<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"xfull\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>A Shanghai bakery owner with a three-year diploma and years of building and running a business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>To extend the bakery to Singapore and use it as the centre of a wider international trading strategy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>A three-year diploma sits below what most people assume an Employment Pass requires.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>We planned the application around that. A real operating company was incorporated first, so the pass sat on a genuine entity rather than a shell. The submission was then built to evidence his management record and technical depth in the detail MOM looks for, rather than leading with a qualification that would not carry the application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outcome<\/strong>The Employment Pass was approved within a six-week service period. He now runs a bakery in central Singapore.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employment Pass \u00b7 approved 2018 \u00b7 six-week service cycle<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,3],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-client-case-studies","category-singapore-business","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}