{"id":614,"date":"2026-09-04T16:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/case-studies\/united-states-founder-relocating-himself-not-hiring\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:43:50","slug":"united-states-founder-relocating-himself-not-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/united-states-founder-relocating-himself-not-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"United States \u2014 founder relocating himself, not hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xcasenote\">The case at a glance<\/div>\n<div class=\"xsum\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>An American founder of a small SaaS company, working remotely and already spending most of the year in Asia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>To move himself and the company&#8217;s centre of gravity to Singapore, and stop living on tourist entries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>A brand-new company with no trading history starts thin on the employer criteria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>We submitted his pass with the company&#8217;s existing revenue and customer contracts as evidence rather than a plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xdiv\"><span>The full story<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"xfull\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>An American founder of a small SaaS company, working remotely and already spending most of the year in Asia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>To move himself and the company&#8217;s centre of gravity to Singapore, and stop living on tourist entries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>A brand-new company with no trading history starts thin on the employer criteria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>Incorporation is the straightforward half: S$15 for the name, S$300 to ACRA, plus a resident director until he holds the pass himself. The pass is harder \u2014 a new company with no trading history starts thin on the employer criteria, offset by the small-firm default points while headcount stays under 25 professionals. We submitted his EP with the company&#8217;s existing revenue and customer contracts as evidence rather than a plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outcome<\/strong>Entity registered for S$315 in ACRA fees plus a nominee director at S$3,000 a year. Employment Pass approved about six weeks later. Corporate bank account opened at week seven, after one visit to Singapore.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business \u00b7 Singapore \u00b7 Incorporation and 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":[80],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-client-case-studies","category-singapore-business","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}