Employment Gap for Permanent Residence for EEA National

[GoEu]

Hi hope you are doing well.
I am a polish national came to UK on April 2011 since then I lived in UK and exercised my treaty rights by working.

But I had couple of gaps between my employment as below :
1. 10/10/2011 till 04/04/2012 ..5 Months 24 days[/b].
2. 15/06/2013 till 18/08/2013 .. 2 Months 3 days.
3. 05/05/2015 till 05/08/2015.. 3 Months.

In these times I was unemployed but didn't registered as Job seeker as I was self sufficient and was looking for Job by door to door so no refusal letter nor Appointment letter.

I didn't claim any kind of benefit I was supporting myself with my savings.

Please, advice are these gaps which are less then 6 months will be an issue for applying Permanent Residence ?

My apology in advance if this topic has been discussed previously cause I didn't find any link,

I would be very great full if someone shed some light on 'Employment Gap' regulations for permanent residence on 5 years route.
Many Thanks

[noajthan]

Hi hope you are doing well.
I am a polish national came to UK on April 2011 since then I lived in UK and exercised my treaty rights by working.

But I had couple of gaps between my employment as below :
1. 10/10/2011 till 04/04/2012 ..5 Months 24 days[/b].
2. 15/06/2013 till 18/08/2013 .. 2 Months 3 days.
3. 05/05/2015 till 05/08/2015.. 3 Months.

In these times I was unemployed but didn't registered as Job seeker as I was self sufficient and was looking for Job by door to door so no refusal letter nor Appointment letter.

I didn't claim any kind of benefit I was supporting myself with my savings.

Please, advice are these gaps which are less then 6 months will be an issue for applying Permanent Residence ?

My apology in advance if this topic has been discussed previously cause I didn't find any link,

I would be very great full if someone shed some light on 'Employment Gap' regulations for permanent residence on 5 years route.
Many Thanks

You still need to have been a qualified person.

That could include being a jobseeker - for which evidence of jobseeking is required.
Or as a self-sufficient person, that is with evidence of a CSI policy (health insurance) in place; (also no reliance on benefits).

[nel974]

I am not sure but I heard that you can be accepted as exercising treaty rights if you are unemployed for upto six months and can prove you were looking for a job. For that you dont need to be registered as job seeker during that time.
I maybe totally wrong but wanted to share something I heard and maybe help.

[noajthan]

I am not sure but I heard that you can be accepted as exercising treaty rights if you are unemployed for upto six months and can prove you were looking for a job. For that you dont need to be registered as job seeker during that time.
I maybe totally wrong but wanted to share something I heard and maybe help.

Wonder where you heard that?

You need rock solid evidence of being a qualified person who is a jobseeker.
And a major component of that can be achieved by registering as a jobseeker.

HO cw will obviously be looking for that; if its not there they are likely to scrutinise the remaining evidence with an even finer toothcomb.
One or two emails from jobsites won't cut it.

[GoEu]

Thank you very much for the information. You guys doing really well by sharing knowledge for people like me.
I have 5/6 emails that I have applied for jobs and 1/2 interview invitation.
As I didn't registered myself as Job seeker.
Please, advice is there anything else I can do.

Many thanks in advance.

[noajthan]

Thank you very much for the information. You guys doing really well by sharing knowledge for people like me.
I have 5/6 emails that I have applied for jobs and 1/2 interview invitation.
As I didn't registered myself as Job seeker.
Please, advice is there anything else I can do.

Many thanks in advance.

This HO guidance will give an idea what a caseworker will be looking for in an application from a jobseeker (etc):
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... _clean.pdf

[cryssya]

hi GoEu,

Sorry for re-opening the topic. I was just wondering what was the outcome of your application?
I'm Romanian, worked 4 years with no gaps as a contractor, but I plan to take 2-3 months off. I was just wondering whether that increases my risk to jeopardize the permanent residency application early next year.


have a nice evening!