KilJim Bro thank you so much for introducing me the agent, finally secured a nice location at not bad price He is really a good and professional agent

Yeap, cause I'm staying at hotel now in Changi airport, so have to find fast. Will be staying at redhill, just opposite MRT. Agent manage help me to nego quite alot.

Wow, where is your room? Mine from 900 become 750.

Check your PM

btw guys for opening bank account, proof of address documents,can I use certificate of stamp duty for room rental? They don't accept room rental agreement and I don't have phone bill statement because I'm using prepaid now as it's paid by company previously. The bank staff wasn't very sure and ask me to bring it over to try.

Erm, nope I dint work permanently previously at Singapore. All the time is business trip to Singapore, so company decided to transfer me here permanently.

Hi, thats great to hear. I went to OCBC near raffles place, at first i show the rental agreement, he say they dont accept rental agreement then I recall my agent send me a screenshot of the stamp duty cert so I show to the staff, he say he cant confirm but he ask me to bring original copy over and he will help me to check with his superior. Going to try to open tomorrow by using cert of stamp duty. By the way, do I need to bring 1k cash for opening account or I only require to bank in later after opening the account? The staff ask me to bring my EP, Malaysia IC and proof of address only for OCBC 360 account.

Hi, just open my account today, not require the SGD 1,000 on the spot as long as you bank in within a week will be sufficient.

I did not survey much but mostly get opinion from my friends, colleagues and bosses who worked here, all suggest me to open OCBC 360 accounts thus I just go with that. By the way, by using certificate of stamp duty is sufficient enough to open bank account at OCBC.

Hi guys, if i buy electronic item here at SG, just 1 unit and bring back Malaysia by bus, will I get tax at JB Custom side? Let's say I dint remove the item from box, but box have been unwrap.

Bought a HTC vive during 1 year anniversary, never thought of custom when bring back that time. It should be fine if I bring back the empty box another time right?

Yeap, thats why now when you enter Singapore, you have to scan both hand finger, so if you did the scanning when you leave Singapore you can use the autogate and white card not require to return anymore. Last month when I went back, the officer is asking anyone who scanned their finger when come in should try the automated gate as its much faster.

Ok,I guess I have to do that. Next time if i just bring my empty box back without anything inside should be ok right?

I just open bank account recently, if you rented a room through agent, you can request Certificate of Stamp Duty from your agent. They don't accept rental agreement but they allow to use letter provided by your company HR too.

I just got mine at end of march, it took around 5 working days. No need to check every 4 hour, if I'm not wrong they update every night, so just check on morning. Last time when I check around 5-6pm its pending but next day early morning I check, it become approved.

I google "Employment Pass Status" then I fill in the field accordingly. It's recommend you keep check yourself and update HR about it, my HR did not check my status, I let them know it's approved they only aware of it and help me to process IPA.

My Actual start work date is weeks earlier than my EP application date....

Haha...business trip from Malaysia, at the same time process hiring at Singapore

Yeap, same....prefer that way actually, able to save up all my salary in Malaysia and every expenses in Singapore is covered with extra, but company want me to transfer here

yeap, luckily the offer is slightly more than 1:1 of my Malaysia salary.

Much better opportunity as my task is project based, so if I finish my singapore project I might not able come here if there is no other project require me. and Singapore Team is mainly working on international project so it's not only within asia but includes europe and others.

Haha yeap, consider good but much more work and responsibility

This website https://eponline.mom.gov.sg/epol/PEPOLENQM0...isplayAction.do

Nope, FIN not require. First you need to enter your Malaysia IC number, and if I remember correctly, it will prompt your passport for verification.

Yeap, correct.

No worry, this is just checking for application status so it wont affect your application.