Long Term Visit Pass (LTVP) holders who wish to work in Singapore and have found prospective employers will need work passes to do so. Applications for work passes (Employment Passes, S Passes or Work Permits) must be made by the prospective employer to Ministry of Manpower. Each application would be assessed on its own merits. However, these LTVP holders are not allowed to work in objectionable occupations such as dance hostesses, masseurs, etc.
Applications for an Employment Pass or S Pass will be assessed based on prevailing criteria (i.e. educational qualifications, salary, occupation, and experience).
Applications for a Work Permit (WP) will depend on the LTVP holder's relationship to their sponsor:
If they are a parent/parent-in-law of the sponsor, they must be from an approved source country and meet the prospective company's dependency quota. The foreign worker levy will apply.
If they are a spouse or unmarried child of the sponsor, there is no need for foreign worker levy to be paid. Their employment will not be counted towards the company's dependency quota. They do not need to be from an approved source country.
*For employers who have already recruited this group of foreign workers on WPs before 1 October 2008, you must write
in to the Work Pass Division before the levy and quota concessions can be extended to your firm/company. The levy concession will only start on the 1st of the following month after the Work Pass Division has verified the relevant documents.