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by jul1 » Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:58 pm
You are working in UK (Northern Ireland) as a british citizen, if you meant you want to apply on EU1 form for resident card in Ireland for your wife than first you have to find a job in Ireland, your job contract matters not where do you live, just by living in Ireland you are not exercising your eu treaty rights. Though you could live in UK but come to work every day to Ireland, with an irish job contract, than it is considered un der eu treaty rights (but maybe you dont want to complicate it)
If you dont want to change your job you have to go by UK immigration rules, good luck with that...
You are looking for Surinder Singh way if you than want to move back to UK . End of August there will be a decision in Ireland about a typical Surinder Singh way (visa delays). UK wants to close it down.
Altough if you dont want to go back to UK later you are lucky, Malaysian citizen dont need visa to Ireland, after you got a job in Ireland she can come over and apply for resident card, she will get it in 10 months or more, in the meantime she can legally work in theory but practically until she gets the eu4fam card no one will hire her (or if she gets the temporary stamp she could work for few months, but when it expires but the eu4fam card still did not come yet - which happens all the time - she will be fired).
But you have to hurry up until you are an EU citizen yourself, after brexit (will happen around 2020) you wont have those treaty rights.