You can sign up for an EP Online account if you are:
- A business owner. You must be a Singapore citizen, Singapore permanent resident or an EntrePass holder.
- An employee of a registered business. You must be a Singapore citizen or Singapore permanent resident.
- A foreign employee of a registered business. You must hold an Employment Pass (EP), Personalised Employment Pass (PEP), or S Pass.
To sign up for an account you’ll need:
How to sign up
To sign up for an account:
- Log in to Work Pass Account Registration (WPAR) using your SingPass.
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
- After 5 working days, you can check your application status.
- During registration, an administrator (admin user) has to be appointed. This person should preferably be the business owner, a director or a senior employee.
- The administrator can add another administrator (total 2) and up to 4 users. Having a second administrator is advisable to minimise disruption if the administrator leaves your organisation or is not available.
You can apply for an EP Online account as an employment agency to transact for your clients.
How to sign up
To sign up for an account:
- Read and understand the EP Online / WP Online terms and conditions.
- Sign up for EP Online account and provide your key appointment holder’s NRIC.
- To pay by GIRO, complete the GIRO application form and post it to:
E-Payment & Admin Fee Management
Work Pass Division
Ministry of Manpower
18 Havelock Road
Singapore 059764
- After 7 working days, you can log in to your account.
- The administrator must be a registered KAH or EA personnel.
- The administrator can add another administrator (total 2) and up to 4 users. Having a second administrator is advisable to minimise disruptions should one administrator leave your organisation or is not available.
Your CorpPass admin user or sub-admin user must:
- Log in to CorpPass account.
- Go to the e-Service Access tab.
- Choose Employment Pass Online (EPOL) as one of your company’s eServices.
- Assign Employment Pass Online (EPOL) eService to the EP Online administrators and users.
It is likely that you are not an existing EP Online administrator or user. You need to sign up for an EP Online account.
If you are an existing EP Online user, you can get your CorpPass administrator to assign EP Online access to you.
Not all CorpPass users are granted access to EP Online. We perform additional checks on the administrators and users of EP Online accounts to ensure that only eligible persons can perform work pass transactions.
Before checking, you must ensure that you've been appointed as an administrator or user of the EP Online account.
To check:
- Log in to your CorpPass account.
- Go to assigned e-Services tab. You should see Employment Pass Online (EPOL) listed as one of your assigned e-Services.
If Employment Pass Online (EPOL) is not listed as one of your assigned e-Services, please ask your CorpPass admin user or sub-admin user to assign the eService to you.
You can use the following web browsers:
- Internet Explorer 11 (recommended)
- Firefox version 24 or higher
- Chrome version 30 or higher
- Safari version 7 or higher
You will need to allow browser popups for EP Online.
For details on technical requirements, read the PC configuration and technical guidelines.
The appointed administrator and user can do the following transactions using EP Online:
- Apply for new Employment Pass (excluding Sponsorship scheme), S Pass, Dependant's Pass (except dependants of Personalised Employment Pass), Long Term Visit Pass, Letter of Consent and Training Employment Pass (not applicable to employment agencies).
- Renew Employment Pass (excluding Sponsorship scheme), S Pass, Dependant's Pass (except dependants of Personalised Employment Pass), Long Term Visit Pass and Letter of Consent.
- Upload relevant supporting documents for a work pass or related pass application.
- Appeal for rejected applications.
- Check application and renewal status.
- Issue Employment Pass, S Pass and related passes.
- Cancel Employment Pass, S Pass and related passes.
- View rejection reasons for most of the unsuccessful applications.
- Print application outcome letter and Issuance of Notification Letter.
- Check organisation’s S Pass quota and tier information.
You can pay with:
- VISA
- MasterCard
- Internet Direct Debit
- GIRO
To check if your payment was successful:
- Log in to EP Online.
- Use the “Enquire” function and choose “Payment Status”.
- Choose the transaction type.
The payment status shown should be “Paid”.
If payment status is “Failed”, you will need to re-submit the transaction and make payment again.
MOM does not refund admin fees.
Admin fees are used to recover the cost of providing services to you, e.g. processing work pass applications.
However, if multiple payments were made due to MOM’s error, we will give a refund for the extra payments.
To pay the work pass administrative fees using GIRO:
- Print the GIRO form.
- Complete Part 1 of the form.
- Post the original completed form to:
E-Payment & Admin Fee Management
Ministry of Manpower
Work Pass Division
18 Havelock Road
Singapore 059764
You will receive the outcome by post in. It may take 4 weeks or more, depending on your bank. While GIRO payment is being set up, you need to pay your fees using available methods.
Once GIRO payment is set up, deductions will take place on the 17th of the following month (or the next working day if the 17th falls on a weekend or public holiday). Make sure you have enough funds for the GIRO deduction.
What is the difference between an administrator and a user?Show
The administrator can:
- Grant access to company employees as EP Online users.
- Terminate users’ accounts if they leave or are no longer authorised to perform transactions.
To change or appoint another administrator or user to any of your accounts, log in to your EP Online account and go to Manage User Account. It will take 3 working days to process your request.
If your EP Online account administrator has left the organisation, you can request to change administrator.
Ensure that your scanned copies are clear and correct. If not, you may be asked to re-submit them.
Each document must be in PDF format and under 2MB in size.
Documents that are not in English should be submitted together with an official English translation. Scan and upload both documents as one file.
You can refer to the list of supporting documents to be uploaded for the various pass applications.
The peak periods for EP Online transactions are:
- Daily from 10am to 12pm, and 2pm to 4pm.
- Mondays and days just before or after a public holiday.
You may experience slower speeds during these periods. Avoid them if you can.