{"id":610,"date":"2026-09-04T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/case-studies\/germany-solo-founder-no-local-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:26:20","slug":"germany-solo-founder-no-local-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/germany-solo-founder-no-local-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany \u2014 solo founder, no local staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xcasenote\">The case at a glance<\/div>\n<div class=\"xsum\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>A software founder in Berlin, 34, and the only employee of his own company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>A Singapore entity to sell into South-East Asia, with himself on the pass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>He believed a one-man company was the weakest possible sponsor for its own pass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>We showed him the opposite is often true: two of the four COMPASS criteria score the employer, and firms under 25 professional staff get default points on both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xdiv\"><span>The full story<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"xfull\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>A software founder in Berlin, 34, and the only employee of his own company. He assumes a one-man business is the weakest possible sponsor for his own Employment Pass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>A Singapore entity to sell into South-East Asia, with himself on the pass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>He believed a one-man company was the weakest possible sponsor for its own pass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>We showed him the opposite is often true. Two of the four COMPASS criteria score the employer, and firms with fewer than 25 professional staff receive default points on both. We incorporated with a genuine operating purpose rather than a shell, appointed a resident director, set his own director&#8217;s salary above the band for his age, and built the submission around his product and customer pipeline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outcome<\/strong>Company registered in three working days. Employment Pass approved. Year-one statutory and service costs of roughly S$7,000\u20138,000, before tax.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business \u00b7 Singapore \u00b7 Employment Pass<\/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":[64],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-client-case-studies","category-singapore-business","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}