{"id":612,"date":"2026-09-04T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/case-studies\/italy-one-restaurant-one-owner-no-degree\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:43:04","slug":"italy-one-restaurant-one-owner-no-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/italy-one-restaurant-one-owner-no-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy \u2014 one restaurant, one owner, no degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xcasenote\">The case at a glance<\/div>\n<div class=\"xsum\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>A restaurateur from Milan with years of running kitchens and margins, and no degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>To open a single outlet in Singapore and hold the pass himself as owner-director.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>A degree is not required, but COMPASS awards points for one, so those points had to come from somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>We incorporated a real operating company with a signed lease, set his salary deliberately above his age band, and made his operating record the substance of the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xdiv\"><span>The full story<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"xfull\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>A restaurateur from Milan with years of running kitchens and margins, and no degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>To open a single outlet in Singapore and hold the pass himself as owner-director.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>No degree, and COMPASS scores for one \u2014 those points had to come from somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>A degree is not a legal requirement for an Employment Pass, but COMPASS awards points for one, and an applicant without it must make those points up elsewhere. We incorporated a real operating company with a signed lease and a business plan rather than a holding shell, set his director&#8217;s salary deliberately above his age band, and evidenced his operating record as the substance of the application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outcome<\/strong>Employment Pass approved on a salary set about 15% above the band for his age, with no degree in the file. The outlet opened roughly four months after incorporation.<\/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":[66],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-client-case-studies","category-singapore-business","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}