EEA1/EEA2 Query & Guidance

[fingkern]

I require some guidance with regard to EEA1 and EEA2 applications.

Does the 'Economically self-sufficient' option work in the following way:

My wife (Hungarian) is currently working part time with myself (Australian) working full time (the bread winner) in London. If my wife applies for a 'Registration Certificate' through EEA1 are we able to put her down as 'Economically self-sufficient' with the funds being mine.

This is how I read the application but I just want to confirm.

If this is possible I will be applying for a 'Residence Card' through EEA2 at the same time.

My wife is also self employed (House cleaning) but without invoices and an audited account we don't think we will get very far with this on a EEA1 application (unless someone can tell us otherwise).

Thanks for any help.

[John]

My wife (Hungarian) is currently working part time

So if she registered on the WRS? Or has she already been registered on the WRS for 12 months?

And a separate point, as regards the self-employment, how long ago did that business start? And has it been reported to HMRC?

[fingkern]

My wife was registered on WRS but for less than 12 months before becoming self employed.

Her self employment is registered with HMRS and started approx. 5 months ago.

[John]

OK, that being the case, she is exercising her EU Treaty Rights as a self-employed person and her form EEA1 needs to reflect that.

I don't think it makes any difference that the self-employment is only part-time and the profit is currently rather low.

[fingkern]

As I stated initially the issue we have with the self employment option is that she doesn't have an audited account and or any invoices which are two of the main things that the HO request to be included in the documentation.

[John]

You are referring to Q4.2 on the form EEA1? If so it is merely a question of ticking the boxes that apply. They don't expect you to tick anything like all the boxes.

For example, on National Insurance, as a self-employed person she is either paying Class 2 contributions, or she has applied for the Small Profit exemption. So just supply the relevant evidence.

Invoices! So she has customers! All she needs to do is to draw up invoices reflecting the payments she is receiving. And she is buying in some supplies? She should have invoices to support that expenditure. And she has taken out Liability insurance? In case she accidentally breask something valuable?

Audited accounts? Only a very small percentage of businesses will have their accounts audited these days, and in any case she only started her business quite recently.

Contracts? Does she supply her customers with any sort of engagement letter? That sounds like a contract to me.