Family relocation · 3 min read
Two passes for one family, approved within days of each other
Our client’s Employment Pass was approved five days after filing. Her husband’s Dependant’s Pass was filed right after and approved in one day. This case shows why the order of a family’s applications matters so much.
Details anonymised to protect client confidentiality. Facts, sequence and outcome are real. Every case is different and decisions rest with the authorities.
The situation
Our client, a Chinese national running a wholesale trading business, was moving to Singapore with her husband. A Dependant’s Pass for a spouse can only attach to an approved Employment Pass. Couples who file everything at once, or file the spouse’s pass too early, often lose weeks to applications that cannot proceed.
What we did
Her Employment Pass went first, supported by a properly capitalised company, verified qualifications, and a salary set to her sector’s benchmark. While MOM reviewed it, we prepared her husband’s Dependant’s Pass application completely, so it was ready to submit the moment her approval arrived.
The outcome
Her Employment Pass was approved five days after filing. Two days after that approval, we filed her husband’s Dependant’s Pass, and it was approved the next day. Within two weeks in December, both of them held their passes and the move was complete.
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| Early December 2025 | Founder’s EP filed; approved five days later |
| Mid December 2025 | Husband’s Dependant’s Pass filed; approved the next day |
What this case shows
- The Employment Pass comes first; the family’s passes attach to it
- Prepare the Dependant’s Pass in parallel, so it files the day the EP is approved
- A one-day Dependant’s Pass approval is normal when the EP behind it is solid
- It is sequencing, not luck, that keeps a family move down to days
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