Frontier workers

A frontier worker is someone who, immediately before IP completion day (11pm on 31 December 2020) was, and continuously since then, has been:

1. •

   an EEA national

2. •

   not primarily resident in the UK, and

3. •

   either:

   1. ◦

      a worker in the UK

   2. ◦

      a self-employed person in the UK, or

   3. ◦

      a person treated as a worker or self-employed person in the UK where they have ‘retained’ this status despite ceasing work (in defined circumstances relating to, eg unemployment, sickness and pregnancy/childbirth)

The frontier worker permit scheme permits eligible EEA and Swiss nationals to continue to enter the UK in order to work here in employment or self-employment, without requiring permission under the post-Brexit immigration system or the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). It is not intended to lead to settlement in the UK. It is open to a person with pre-settled