{"id":623,"date":"2026-09-04T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/case-studies\/south-korea-husband-and-wife-co-own-she-holds-the-pass\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:49:26","slug":"south-korea-husband-and-wife-co-own-she-holds-the-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/south-korea-husband-and-wife-co-own-she-holds-the-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea \u2014 husband and wife co-own, she holds the pass"},"content":{"rendered":"
The case at a glance<\/div>\n
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Client Background<\/strong>A Seoul couple who jointly own their trading business, with her as the majority shareholder and the one running it day to day.<\/p>\n

Client Plan<\/strong>To relocate together, with the company incorporated in Singapore.<\/p>\n

Problem<\/strong>They assumed the family would be awkward to sponsor, though the rules are neutral on which spouse does.<\/p>\n

How We Helped<\/strong>We set her director’s salary at S$6,400, above both her own EP band and the DP threshold, and planned his position in the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The full story<\/span><\/div>\n
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Client Background<\/strong>A Seoul couple who jointly own their trading business. She is the majority shareholder and the one who runs it day to day.<\/p>\n

Client Plan<\/strong>To relocate together, with the company incorporated in Singapore.<\/p>\n

Problem<\/strong>They assumed the family would be awkward to sponsor. The rules are neutral on which spouse does.<\/p>\n

How We Helped<\/strong>They assumed the structure would be awkward because she would be the sponsor. It is not \u2014 the rules are neutral as to which spouse sponsors. What matters is the same either way: the sponsor’s fixed monthly salary must reach S$6,000 for a Dependant’s Pass, and the accompanying spouse cannot simply start working on it. We set her director’s salary at S$6,400, above both her own EP band and the DP threshold, and planned his position in the company rather than leaving him dependent.<\/p>\n

Outcome<\/strong>Her EP approved; his Dependant’s Pass issued about three weeks later. He was subsequently appointed a director and moved onto his own Employment Pass four months after that, with no gap in his right to remain.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Relocation \u00b7 Singapore \u00b7 Employment Pass and Dependant’s Pass<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-client-case-studies","category-singapore-relocation","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","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=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}