I'm in a somewhat similar situation as you and I can't figure out a good way to go about it. My wife, who is an EEA national, was UNOFFICIALLY self-employed for about 1.5 years before she registered as self-employed with the HMRC, started getting her clients to pay to her bank account, writing invoices, and all the other good things that are necessary as proof for the Home Office. Before that, she was just doing her work and getting paid cash - no paperwork. We don't have practically any records of her self-employment from that time. And if we could find something that can be used as proof, that would save us 1.5 years in applying for PR. Otherwise, we have to wait until 5 years have passed from the time she started keeping good records. She did pay taxes though at the time, would that alone be enough for the Home Office? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.jerom wrote:Hi Slingo,
I strongly believe it would work as my wife stopped working in Oct 2010, a month before giving birth to our first child in late Nov 2010.
She got pregnant again in March 2011 and gave birth to our second child in Jan 2012. During these periods she did not work or seek for a job and also never applied for Income support or Job seeker allowance as I was working and was able to take care of us. But i did not get a CSI(Comprehensive Sickness Insurance) to qualify as self sufficient.
We started looking for a job for her in May 2012 and only she got one in August 2012. She has since been working till date.
My grounds of appeal will be one, The Saint Jessy Prix Case and two, on sex discrimination.
I also thought about the option of the RC but you can only apply for one status at time.
I think if it comes to me being refused, i will appeal and in the meantime apply for another RC 5 years.
What do you think? Has anyone in this forum gone through this or knows anyone that has the same problem?
Please kindly shed some light on this matter.
Thanks all and all the best Slingo.
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