Incorporation, answered.

No. The entire registration process can be completed online, and you don't need to be a Singapore citizen or permanent resident to incorporate here.

Every Singapore company needs at least one director who is ordinarily resident in Singapore — a citizen, a PR, or certain pass holders living here. If you're based overseas, the usual routes are appointing someone local you trust as a co-director, or relocating a founder on an Employment Pass or EntrePass.

Enston can act as nominee resident director in selected cases, subject to our due diligence — we offer this case by case rather than as a standard service. Tell us about your setup and we'll advise the right route.

You keep full management control — the nominee director does not run your business day to day. But under Singapore law a nominee director carries the same legal duties and liabilities as any other director. They are required to know what the company does, stay satisfied that it is properly managed and compliant, and expect proper records and timely filings. So they will ask questions from time to time, and they may decline to act, or step down, if concerns cannot be resolved. This oversight is a legal requirement — and it protects you and your company as much as it protects the director.

If foreign directors or shareholders become uncontactable, the deposit covers the administrative charges and fees for the company's strike-off process. It's fully refundable — returned within one month after a replacement is registered with the Company Registrar.

Yes — our foreign-entrepreneur packages include Employment Pass application assistance for founders who plan to move to Singapore and run the business in person.

Applying takes about 5–10 minutes online. Approval typically follows within a few working hours, though it can take up to 14 days depending on compliance checks and name availability.

In short: reserve your company name with ACRA, prepare the incorporation documents, and file for registration — we handle the paperwork and filings end to end. The Incorporation Process page walks through each step.

If your shareholder is a corporate entity, we'll need its registration documents (such as its Certificate of Incorporation and constitution) and proof of its registered address. If that corporate shareholder is itself owned by another company, we'll need the same documents up the chain until we reach the individual beneficial owners.