I would really appreciate some advice as I am going round in circles with this on google!
By way of brief background: My husband is an EU citizen with a job offer in Geneva from June next year. I am a UK citizen and we currently live in the U.K. with our children. The first three months of his new job will be working from home (as for various reasons we aren’t able to move to Geneva until September). The offer is for a permanent job. I might have a job with my current employer that I could continue in Geneva, but there’s a good chance I won’t and will have to seek employment once we arrive. Our plan is also for the children (also EU citizens) to enrol in a local school.
I would be very grateful for some guidance on a few queries:
- would i have the right to live and work (including looking for work) immediately from our arrival in Geneva in September (via the family reunification process)? Or is there a delay in obtaining the permit/regarding when I can apply for this.
- could we request a permit for me to live and work in Geneva (through family reunification) immediately upon my husband starting his job in June or would this only be possible once he is physically present in Geneva (ie from September)?
- most importantly, I understand that being a spouse of an EU citizen who is employed in Geneva on a B permit gives me a right to live and work there too, but, for the purposes of finding a job, will I be considered as a National of a third country and therefore be at the back of the queue when it comes to getting a job? Or am I treated equally to an EU citizen, thanks to the permit obtained via family reunification?
- can we enrol the children in a school prior to arriving in the territory? They will need to start in September but we cannot relocate before then (my current contract expires at the end of August).
Thanks so much in advance!