Veronica Tan

Veronica Tan spent over a decade in operations management at a construction-related company before joining Golden Archway, where she is Managing Director. That is where her BCA knowledge comes from: not from reading the guidelines, but from running the operations that had to satisfy them, year after year, across workheads, grades, renewals and the manpower that depended on them.

It is a useful background for this work, because BCA registration is rarely defeated by the rules themselves. It is defeated by records: a track record filed under the wrong workhead, a completion certificate nobody kept, a technical employee whose qualification does not match the definition, an application submitted three weeks before the Work Permits expire. Veronica has been on the operations side of all of those.

At Golden Archway she leads the BCA licensing and contractor registration practice, advising construction firms on which workhead and grade actually fit their business, what the Approved Person and Technical Controller appointments require, how registration changes a company's foreign-worker position, and how to close a qualification gap when nobody in the company yet meets the bar. She also brings eight years in the immigration and consulting business, which is what allows the licence and the Employment Pass to be planned as one piece of work rather than two.

She writes the Golden Archway insights on construction and BCA matters. Where BCA revises its classes, workheads or criteria, as it regularly does, she updates the guidance and confirms the current figures for each client's situation.

Areas of focus

• BCA Contractors Registration System: workheads, grades and track record
• General Builder and Specialist Builder licences
• The Approved Person and Technical Controller appointments
• Foreign-worker quota and Work Permits for construction firms
• Setting up and running a construction company in Singapore

Written by Veronica

• BCA workheads explained: CW, CR, ME, TR and RW
• The Approved Person and the Technical Controller: who qualifies, and how
• The BCA builder licence and contractor registration, explained

Veronica works alongside Immigration Expert Travis Tay, who covers the Employment Pass, COMPASS and permanent residence, and our China desk, led by Head of China Market Wang Wenyan with China Market Manager Abigail Fu. Read more about Golden Archway, or see the BCA CRS registration service.