try-one wrote:Hi Tumbleweed,
- If you visit the UK with your husband, you can enter the country on the equivalent of a short stay visa: "Residence permits will be deemed equivalent to short-stay visas"
- That short stay visa is the equivalent to what you have as a US citizen (visit, not work)
- If your husband decides to move permanently to the UK (exercise treaty rights) you can work.
- If you incorporate in austria you can visit the Uk for business purposes, meetings, negotiations, presentations; you can not work here and receive a salary. If working and receiving a salary via a EU incorporated company was allowed, then we wouldn't have work permits and everyone would incorporate and come here to work. I have seen many cases of people in Canada and other countries that have been found out to be earning money while visiting under a business visa and they have been banned from the country and their local employers fined.
- If you want to visit the UK for short periods of time to work, then you may want to try a work permit or the HSMP
NO NO NO, depending on how she is conducting the business, a business visa or a business visit visa may be appropriate. Of course, she has to be weary of crossing the line but to get an HSMP visa for some quick jobs in the UK could be excessive.
Quote from the workpermit.com site it states
After a quick look, the best visa would be:
If the person you would like to hire is not entitled to work in the UK without a work permit, you have a number of other options:
A Business visit visa – For trips to the UK of up to 6 months, a visit visa can be used where the work to be performed is limited; the official guidelines state that the following may come to the UK as business visitors:
Advisers, consultants, trainers, troubleshooters etc, provided they are employed abroad, either directly or under contract, by the same company (or group of companies) to which the client firm in the United Kingdom belongs. Their involvement must not extend to actual project management or to providing advice or consultancy services direct to clients of the United Kingdom company. Training should be for a specific, "one-off" purpose (for example, training in the use of products manufactured overseas or training specific to the operation of a group of companies of which the United Kingdom firm is a member). The training should not go beyond classroom instruction and should not otherwise be readily available in the UK;
Representatives of computer software companies coming to install, debug or enhance their products.
Representatives of computer software companies coming to be briefed as to the requirements of a United Kingdom customer. HOWEVER if they are to provide a service involving the use of their expertise to make a detailed assessment of a potential customer's requirements this should be regarded as consultancy work for which a work permit is required;
These regulations allow considerable flexibility for an in-house training/roll-out team, and give considerable freedom to employees of such companies as Oracle, SAP, etc. who are rolling out their own products at client sites. As the majority of IT roll-outs are conducted by consultancies who are using products manufactured by a third party, such activities will require a work permit.
You would have to work around these parameters to fit into the criteria but since I don't understand the entertainment business I am not endeavering
The problem with HSMP, (the other visa have a fit problem too) even though it is highly preferred and recommended, is that every year you have to requalify with a certain amount of income. If you don't plan to make the UK the main source of income, then you would be unlikely to meet the criteria to be get an extension. And plus technically HSMP is for candidates with the intention to settlement, in this instance she has no plans to relocate to the UK.
