Effortless Address Update Checklist for the Residents in Singapore
Singapore is a dynamic city-state where many foreign workers live and work. According to MOM data, there are roughly 1.5 million foreign workers in Singapore.
The vast majority of these foreigners do not own property in Singapore. They rent a unit, live there for a while (most likely 1-2 years), and then move on, which is pretty usual in Singapore. Hence, residents, particularly foreigners, frequently change their residential addresses.
Some systems allow updating the residential address before relocating to a new home and can set an effective date as a future date. If the system allows it, I recommend updating one week before moving to the new location and adding the effective date as the moving date.
After living 50 months in an HDB unit in Woodlands, I recently moved to a new place. I faced a challenge finding a list of where to update the new address. Hence, I decided to make a checklist for this. In this article, I will share a checklist that can be used to update the residential address when moving to a new place. I hope that at least half of the following list applies to general expats in Singapore. Please leave a comment if I missed something. It may be helpful for the readers.
I assume you have transferred the internet connection to the new place or applied an internet connection to the new place. Also, I assume you have applied for PUB for the new place. So, address changes do not apply to these two.
If you live in Singapore with your partner 🥰, remind your partner to do the same.
Essential Update
- Inform your workplace or update the address in your HR system.
- If you are an EP holder, go to MOM EP Online and update the address. Later, this address will sync with your SingPass.
- Log into the IRAS portal and update the address.
- If your PR is pending, be sure to update the address in your PR application through the myICA portal.
- Update the address in your primary and secondary bank account (i.e. DBS, OCBC, UOB, etc.)
- If you hold credit cards from different banks (i.e. Citi, StanChart, HSBC, etc.), update the address in their systems.
- Update the address in your telecom (i.e. StarHub, Singtel, M1, etc.)
- Update the address in your insurance systems (i.e. Prudential, AIA, etc.), including the company insurance.
- Update the address in membership portals (i.e. AIA Vitality, Fitness First, etc.)
- If you are using any money transfering apps (i.e. Wise), update the address in those apps as well.
- Change the address in your trading accounts (i.e. IBKR, Moomoo, etc.)
- Ensure that you resync the accounts that you have created using SingPass. If you created accounts in some portals through SingPass, you must resync with SingPass after updating your address in the SingPass portal.
- If you have schooling kinds, update your address in parents’ contacts in school systems as well.
- If you are a PR, update the address in ICA.
Convenience Updates
- Ensure that you update the address in your airline account. (i.e. Singapore Airlines)
- Update the address in your Google accounts.
- Update the address on your mobile (My Card in iPhone)
- Set the saved home address in the Grab app
- Update the saved home address in eCommerce applications like Shopee and Lazada.
- Update the address in the AWS account, Microsoft account and other monthly/yearly subscription portals.
I have updated my address in the above portals after moving to a new place. Let me know if anything else readers need to be aware of when updating the residential address.
That’s it for today, guys. Thanks for reading. If you find this useful, consider sharing it with your friends who are going to move or have moved recently.
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