Moving your family to Singapore is one of the most rewarding relocations a foreign professional can make — and one of the most logistically complex. Singapore consistently ranks among the world's most liveable cities, with world-class healthcare, highly regarded schools, a low-crime environment, and a legal system that foreign professionals and families can rely on. [...]
Singapore permanent residency is one of the most consequential milestones a foreign professional or family can achieve. It unlocks lower property stamp duties, CPF contributions, subsidised healthcare, local school access, and — most importantly — the right to remain in Singapore indefinitely without being tied to an employer-sponsored work pass. Yet the path to Singapore [...]
At the Committee of Supply debate on 3 March 2026, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong confirmed that Singapore will raise the minimum qualifying salaries for both the Employment Pass and S Pass from 1 January 2027 for new applications, and from 1 January 2028 for renewals. The changes are significant enough to affect workforce planning, payroll [...]
In February 2026, Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong announced in Parliament that Singapore plans to increase its annual permanent resident (PR) intake to approximately 40,000 approvals per year over the next five years — up from around 35,000 in recent years. For the roughly 100,000 to 120,000 people who apply for Singapore PR each [...]
Singapore's Workplace Fairness Act (WFA) was passed by Parliament on 8 January 2025 — a landmark shift that converts the Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (TAFEP) guidelines from voluntary best practice into statutory obligations. For Singapore employers, the question is no longer whether to comply, but how, and by when. The WFA [...]
Singapore's Permanent Residence system is not a points table you can game, a queue you can jump, or a process with a guaranteed outcome. It is a holistic assessment conducted by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) against criteria that balance Singapore's economic, demographic, and social priorities. Understanding the three pathways — and what ICA [...]
Relocating to Singapore as a family — with a working parent on an Employment Pass, a spouse, and school-age children — involves more moving parts than the professional move alone. The visa cascade, the school application calendar, the healthcare gap, the housing market, and the FDW levy all require planning in roughly the right sequence, [...]
On 17 February 2026, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong confirmed in his Budget 2026 speech that Singapore's Employment Pass (EP) and S Pass qualifying salaries will rise from 1 January 2027 for new applications, and from 1 January 2028 for renewals. For HR managers who are planning headcount, budgeting for 2027 salary costs, and preparing renewal [...]
At Budget 2026, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced that Singapore would increase annual Permanent Resident (PR) approvals to approximately 40,000 per year over the next five years — up from roughly 34,500 granted in 2024. For the more than 180,000 Employment Pass and S Pass holders working in Singapore, this headline has generated both optimism [...]
Singapore's employment law landscape shifted significantly when Parliament passed the Workplace Fairness Act (WFA) in January 2025 — converting decades of soft-touch guidance from the Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (TAFEP) into hard statutory obligations. With commencement expected by end-2027 per the Ministry of Manpower, HR managers and employers now have a [...]