Singapore IPA

The IPA is a one-time entry visa for the purpose of starting your job there.
For a preparatory visit, you need a separate visit visa.
Your employment status in another country does not matter at all in this.
If you want to move to Singapore and start work NEXT YEAR, you should check your IPA's validity period: They are not normally valid hat long!

Thanks a lot Beppi

My IPA is valid until December. I think for this visit I can travel with the IPA and the entry approval visa. I am vaccinated and coming from a low risk country hopefully it should be okay.

When you travel on the basis of an IPA, it is your entry and work permit. You will have to get your work permit issued during the trip in accordance.

You can’t travel in and out on basis of the IPA, please don’t assume ‘it’s okay’, you need a tourist visa, serve SHN after securing your safe entry travel approvals (if you aren’t taking up the job now), read the post above from Beppi again please.

Thanks a lot
I plan to travel with the IPA do the SHN and then get the notification letter and the LTP card. I plan to stay in SG for 3 weeks to ensure all these docs are in place.

My employment contract however would still not have commenced yet. I will go back to HK to complete the notice period with my current employer and then commence remotely job with SG employer. I would open bank account while in SG too

I hope I am not missing anything

Thanks for your guidance. Much appreciated

Again: If you enter Singapore using your IPA, it must be for the purpose of getting your work pass issued and starting work. If you leave the country without doing this, you have lost your work pass. You cannot enter a second time using the same IPA.
Therefore, if you want to visit before starting work, you need to get another visa!
If your employment is scheduled to start after IPA expiry, your employer should contact MoM (BEFORE expiry!) and extend it. If you do not enter Singapore and get the work pass issued before IPA expiry, you also lose your work pass.
Clear now?
(Note: You do not need a Singapore work pass to work remotely for a Singapore company, as this is governed by the laws of the country where you perform the work, not Singapore law!)

Thanks a lot, Beppi. Appreciate you taking so much time.

I will try to explain again. I am presently in HK under notice period with my employer here.

I have got the IPA for SG. I plan to go to SG with my IPA and stay for 3-4 weeks and do my LTP card. So my purpose of visit is work visa.

However at this time, my employment contract has not started with SG employer. I will continue to work for my HK employer serving notice.

And once back in HK after 3-4 weeks stay, I will soon be done with notice period and get started with SG employer in a month or so. IPA validity is until Dec so fairly in advance.

You are right, if I don’t complete more than 180 days in SG my taxation is something I have to see and make sure I pay taxes at both places as applicable. I will be on my wife dependent visa in HK which allows employment locally or overseas

My concern was only that there will a month or two wherein I will activate my EP in SG in person while my employment contract with SG employer would not have commenced

Again (for the third time!): Make sure your IPA is valid until you actually start work (that date should be agreed on by your employer,or written in the contract), enter Singapore using the IPA shortly (at most a month) before that date, get your work pass issued just before you start work (your employer will arrange that!). If you want to visit before starting your job, you need a separate visa for it.
Everything else will not work! (And taxation has nothing to do with this.)