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How can I request to reinstate a Work Permit or in-principle approval that is revoked due to levy default?

Before submitting your reinstatement request, please ensure you have:

  1. Paid the overdue levy in Check and pay foreign worker levy.
  2. Paid CPF contributions for all your local workers
  3. Paid all your workers’ salaries

After paying the overdue levy bill, wait 1 – 2 days and check that it is updated in Check and pay foreign worker levy under the Payments tab.

Payment details will usually be shown in your account summary by the next day if payment is received by 10pm, and within 2 days for payments received after 10pm.

Construction sector

Complete these steps:

  1. Purchase levy bonds for workers without existing levy bonds. Payments must be made separately for skilled (i.e. basic skilled and higher skilled) and unskilled workers. Companies with existing levy bonds do not need to purchase new bonds, but MOM will extend the monitoring period for the existing levy bonds by 12 months from the revocation date.
  2. Submit a request to reinstate your workers:
  3. We will email you the outcome. If your request is approved, you may then log in to WP Online to complete the reinstatement of their passes.

To avoid incurring additional non-refundable transaction fees, do not apply for reinstatement using WP Online before receiving our approval to proceed with the reinstatement.

Non-construction sector

Apply for reinstatement online:

  1. Log in to Work Permit Online.
  2. Click "Reinstate" in the left sidebar.
  3. Select “Show me any other case” and submit one worker first to check if your company has any outstanding issues.
    This helps you avoid incurring additional non-refundable transaction fees on rejected applications.
  4. If successful, proceed to submit the remaining workers for reinstatement using “Show me levy-related cases”.

    For an immediate outcome, select up to 5 workers per transaction. For more than 5 workers, the outcome will only be available the next working day.
  5. If you encounter an error, submit a request to us:

Transaction fees

You need to pay the following transaction fees.  Transaction fees for rejected applications are not refundable.

Work Permit $35
Work Permit for Performing Artiste
 $75

Once reinstated, levy for the period when Work Permits (including temporary Work Permits) were revoked will be included in your subsequent bills.