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John wrote:Can you become self-employed? Yes, now permitted, and as stated above, a Registration Card is recommended but not essential.
However! If you become self-employed you will be exercising your Treaty Rights in the UK. In other words you will have switched to the EU/EEA route, and the bad news is that your ILR clock will be reset.
Up to 29.04.06 it was the case that time spent legally working in the UK by an A8 national prior to their A8 country joining the EU/EEA on 01.05.04 could count towards the 4 or 5 year clock .... even if the person switched to the EU/EEA on or after 01.05.04. However the EU regulations changed on 30.04.06 and from that date, and you could argue retrospectively, they could take account only of time on the EU/EEA route, and not the previous time in the UK on, for example, a WP.
So I think it is clear BadPaul, if you do start exercising your Treaty Rights that you have newly acquired you cannot take account of the earlier time on a WP, in order to get to the 5 year mark.
Accordingly you might be minded to wait until September before making your move.