My wife and I have been living in Ireland for nearly 3 years now. We're both from New Zealand, and I have a work permit. My wife is here as my spouse. Because I got my first work permit before 1 June 2009, she's entitled to a spousal work visa, without any restricted categories or employment check.
My wife would like to take a job as a child carer for a family. Since most families aren't incorporated companies, to the best of my knowledge that would make her self-employed. I haven't been able to find any provision for self-employment under spousal work permits, though, and despite her being entitled to work in any position, she's still obliged to apply for a permit before she can work. Does anyone know if there's any provision for self-employment?
One option would seem to be for her to form an incorporated company and employ herself. However, there's two potential problems here: first, that as non-EU citizens, I'm not sure if we can incorporate a company; secondly that the spousal work permit regulations appear to specifically exclude employment for the purpose of sub-contracting, which I presume this would be considered to be.
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