Trying to get my head round this one.
Husband must be here on a work permit with a "no recourse" condition. Did they come in as a couple or meet and marry here? I think it must be the latter if she came in pre Bulgaria joining EU on a separate visa, since there is no separate visa needed for the spouse of a work permit holder who has the right to work secondarily.
Presumably then when she became an A2 national the same sort of rules applied as to A8 nationals, ie she could be self-employed but is she wanted to work she needed a work permit of her own - or does she, granted the status of spouse of a work permit holder?
So anyway, she is an EU citizen now, but is she a qualified person? As I read article 7 of 2004/38, you are a qualified person if you are an EU national who has sufficient resources not to become a burden on the social assistance scheme - and I think HMRC would be horrified at the idea that child tax credit is social assistance - or the spouse of such an EU national. I'm not 100% clear what the rules would be if technically it is the non-EU spouse who is the one with the resources, but hang it all, the tax credits system is enough of a benefit to aggregate resources anyway.
Why don't these people read the text books and keep their lives simple?!
And what does HMRC mean by the residence requirements?
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