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Thanks for your post, was hoping you'd reply. I agree with all you say - I want to start running the business asap, even small scale in order to show revenue, local contacts, contracts, employment of citizens etc. I don't expect to be allowed in based on a bank deposit and registered company. I don'...

Besides, your premise of 'if it can be run remotely you don't need to be here' is a bit shallow. How many expat financial traders are in Sing? They can trade from a beach in Fiji if they wanted. How many market research firms? Service providers, programmers, architects, etc etc? None of them *have* ...

So there's no way to set up a company and be based in Singapore? Other than Entre pass. My expertise is commodity trading; my plan is to export local products to serve the burgeoning SE Asian community in East Africa as well as import high quality niche products from the same region. Running remotel...

How feasible is it nowadays to set up a company and employ yourself in it in order to get a EP?

The company would be run remotely to show income and financial success before I would apply for the EP.

I've done lots of searching but most info is from a few years ago.