I appreciate your comment, but may I ask to know why in your opinion I may not get it?x9200 wrote:Google out for Entre Pass. This is your only route but judging from your business profile you may not be able to get it.
Please, don't feel offended, but the answer is, you don't sound like a billionaire and to get the required information it is pretty easy and straight forward what you kind of failed to do. If you are not very rich you will need to convince the authorities to grant you Entre Pass. To do this you will need to make a case and have a capital of at least 50k.Lord Mo wrote:I appreciate your comment, but may I ask to know why in your opinion I may not get it?x9200 wrote:Google out for Entre Pass. This is your only route but judging from your business profile you may not be able to get it.
I have googled alot about the whole thing, hence my source of confusion.
Suggestions about how and where to go or better still what to do to prove self and business plan would be appreciated.
I have read and heard that S$50K was the minimum amount stipulated by the government. If its not enough, how much do you think would be a good start? I am trying to be above average because even if everyone gets in at 50K its not always the case for us African passport holders.Wd40 wrote:60k is not a big amount by SG standards. There are lots of people here who can easily garner much higher amount and love to stay back in this country with whatever visa possible.
If 60k was enough, there would be way too much abuse of the entrepass.
Just noticed this:JR8 wrote:Based upon what you have said I think your route is the Entrepass.
http://www.mom.gov.sg/foreign-manpower/ ... fault.aspx
Out of interest why do you specifically identify Singapore as potentially offering you business opportunities unavailable elsewhere? (Just my curiosity as a fellow business-man, feel free not to discuss this if you do not wish to!).
Wow ! Thanks a lot X9200 and everyone who has contributed. I really appreciate the opportunity this forum provides, I will prepare my documents, make my case strong, make a visit to try it myself and see if God will smile on me again.x9200 wrote:The problem lays not in your rationale for running the business but in having the authorities convinced to grant you a proper visa. Few years ago it would be probably easier but what could be observed and clear also from reading different posts on this forum is that the SG government tightens the immigration criteria. My personal feeling is that without substantial investments you may not be granted the visa as probably, forgive me again, it's really nothing personal, you have not much to offer. I guess there must be hundreds of people applying every month with similar resources and targets.
If you managed to establish a successful and blooming businesses in the two places you mentioned (UEA and Philippines) this would probably help.
As for how much of the starting capital, I don't really know. 50k indicates that you just want to fulfil the basic requirements. 60k is that you just want to create an impression of being more serious in establishing the business here than these who paid only 50k , 200-300k?
I really don't know. The problem is there is not too much it can be suggested to do, you probably just need to try. Come over here for a start (if you have not been to Singapore before) and get the feeling of the place. Maybe go to MOM/ICA and try to talk to an officer to get some more feeling? They will not tell you what your chances are but you know, you may sometimes learn a lot reading between the lines.
One advice: people generally say the agencies arranging visas and such are useless. If you can not do it by yourself, they will unlikely help you. You will just waste your money.
Good luck from me too.
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