{"id":611,"date":"2026-09-04T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/case-studies\/netherlands-e-commerce-owners-entrepass-or-employment-pass\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:26:42","slug":"netherlands-e-commerce-owners-entrepass-or-employment-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/netherlands-e-commerce-owners-entrepass-or-employment-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands \u2014 e-commerce owners, EntrePass or Employment Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xcasenote\">The case at a glance<\/div>\n<div class=\"xsum\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>Two Dutch founders running a profitable online homeware business, with no venture funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>To base themselves in Singapore and run the business from here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>They were planning around EntrePass, which is built for venture-backed businesses, not profitable trading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>We assessed the business honestly against the EntrePass criteria and moved them to incorporation plus a founder-director Employment Pass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xdiv\"><span>The full story<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"xfull\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>Two Dutch founders running a profitable online homeware business, no venture funding. They have been told to apply for an EntrePass because they are entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>To base themselves in Singapore and run the business from here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>They were planning around EntrePass, which is built for venture-backed businesses, not profitable trading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>We assessed the business honestly against the EntrePass criteria. That scheme is built for innovation-led, venture-backed or IP-heavy businesses and carries ongoing spending and hiring commitments. A profitable trading business is better served by incorporation plus an Employment Pass held by a founder-director.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outcome<\/strong>EntrePass ruled out at the first meeting, avoiding an application that would have failed and the hiring commitments attached to it. Company incorporated, first founder&#8217;s EP approved, second founder followed on her own EP the next quarter.<\/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":[65],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-client-case-studies","category-singapore-business","tag-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}