Services · For families relocating to Singapore
One decision, in the right order.
Visa, PR, schools, healthcare, housing — for a relocating family, this is not five services. It is one set of choices, made in the right order. The cost of getting the sequence wrong is rarely visible at decision time; it surfaces twelve months in, when a school placement does not align with a visa renewal, or when a personal tax residency election was made in the wrong year. Anlian Group runs the relocation track anchored in three Phase 1 pillars: Work Visa Hub for the working principal, Permanent Residence for family members on the standard pathway, and Accounting & Tax for personal tax residency planning. Adjacent services — education support, healthcare concierge, real estate advisory, personal banking — launch through Phase 2 by 2026-07-20; we discuss them inside engagements, but formal scope on each launches in stages.
What we cover today (Phase 1)
- Work Visa Hub — for the principal whose role anchors the relocation. Pass selection across Employment Pass (EP), Tech.Pass, ONE Pass depending on profile, last-drawn salary, and the Singapore activity narrative. Dependant's Pass and Long-Term Visit Pass packaging for spouse, children, and parents runs as part of the same engagement.
- Permanent Residence — PR application planning for family members eligible to apply once the principal's pass is in place. The standard PR pathway (the Professionals/Technical Personnel and Skilled Workers scheme — the route ICA uses to assess Employment Pass and S Pass holders applying for Singapore PR) is the typical route for relocating professionals; the Global Investor Programme route is rarely the right fit for this persona.
- Accounting & Tax — personal tax — residency timing matters. Becoming Singapore tax resident in the wrong calendar year can mean an extra cycle of dual-residency exposure. We coordinate the residency election with the visa start date and the family's prior-jurisdiction tax obligations.
Adjacent services launching in stages (Phase 2)
Four service lines complete the relocation engagement set. They are part of how we discuss the relocation in the strategy call, but formal engagement scope on each launches in stages through 2026-07-20.
- Education support — school placement, international curriculum guidance, and education-related visa coordination.
- Healthcare concierge — Singapore medical specialist introductions and health insurance pathways.
- Real estate advisory — residential property advisory, ABSD considerations, and rental for relocating principals.
- Personal & wealth banking — private banking introductions for newly relocated HNW individuals and families.
Where a relocation engagement requires any of the above before the formal launch date, we coordinate via partner introductions; the engagement letter notes which workstreams ALG delivers directly and which are coordinated via partners.
How an engagement starts
- Diagnostic call — family composition (principal, spouse, children, dependant parents), current jurisdiction, relocation timeline, school-year considerations, prior-jurisdiction tax obligations. Thirty minutes, no pitch.
- Pass-and-PR pathway selection — which family member holds the primary pass, who follows on Dependant's Pass or Long-Term Visit Pass, when each family member becomes eligible for PR. The pass decision constrains everything else.
- Tax residency timing — calendar-year election for the principal, mapped against the family's prior-jurisdiction tax obligations and the Foreign-Sourced Income Exemption framework where it applies.
- Sequence design — the order in which visa, banking, school placement, housing, and PR application happen. The order is the engagement plan; getting it wrong creates the twelve-months-in surprises.
- Phase 2 coordination — education, healthcare, real estate, banking touchpoints discussed in the strategy call, with formal scope confirmed once the relevant Phase 2 service launches or via partner coordination in the meantime.
Common relocation scenarios
- The senior executive relocating with family. Corporate package determines the primary pass (typically EP), but the family integration questions — school placement, healthcare access for children, spouse's career pathway — sit outside the corporate package and need their own engagement plan. This is the most common relocation profile and the one where sequencing matters most.
- The HNW family principal's spouse and dependants joining later. The principal may already hold an EP, ONE Pass, or have entered via GIP. Family members follow on Dependant's Pass (spouse and unmarried children under 21) or Long-Term Visit Pass (common-law partners, step-children, parents in defined cases). The primary pass holder must earn a fixed monthly salary of at least S$6,000 for Dependant's Pass eligibility (raised from S$5,000 with effect from 1 September 2024).
- The cross-border founder bringing family along. The founder track and the relocation track run together. Incorporation, banking, and the founder's work pass are all live at the same time as school placement and housing. We sequence the corporate workstream against the family workstream so neither blocks the other.
Read more
For background on the standard PR application timeline and approval patterns, see Singapore PR 2026: Timeline and Approval Patterns. For the principal's work pass selection, see Singapore Employment Pass 2026 and Tech.Pass vs ONE Pass.
Next step
Relocation engagements always begin with a strategy call. Family composition, timeline, and prior-jurisdiction tax obligations all surface in the first thirty minutes — and the sequencing logic depends on those facts.