Euro Workers

Advice

Always

• Must register if you are a national of one of the new Member States (apart from Malta and Cyprus) subject to the Worker Registration Scheme; and
• You start a new job on or after 1 May 2004; or
• You have been working in the UK before 1 May without permission;
• You will not be subject to the worker registration and therefore do not need to register if one or more of the following applies:
• You are self-employed;
• you have been working legally in the UK for 12 months or more in the job you hold on 1 May 2004;
• You have been working legally in the UK and you stay in the same job after 1 May 2004;
• You were issued with leave to enter the UK before 1 May as a seasonal agricultural worker and took up employment on the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme on or after 1 May;
• You are providing services in the UK on behalf of an employer who is not established in the UK;
• You are also a citizen of the UK, another EEA State or Switzerland;
• you are the family member of a Swiss or EEA national  who is working in the UK;
• You are the family member of a Swiss or EEA national who is living in the UK as a student, or a retired or self sufficient person.

Never :

• If you do not apply within one month of starting a job, your employment will be illegal after that date. It will be illegal until you are issued with a registration certificate and you may have to stop working.