Being a frontier worker depends on you having employment or self-employment in the UK. You can keep your frontier worker status if you are not working and one of the following applies:

• you’re temporarily unable to work because of an illness or accident
• you were working for more than one year but are now involuntarily unemployed, and you’re registered as a jobseeker
• you completed a fixed-term employment contract of less than one year and are now involuntarily unemployed, and you are registered as a jobseeker
• you became involuntarily unemployed during the first 12 months of your work, and you’re registered as a jobseeker
• you’re in vocational training whilst involuntarily unemployed
• you’re in vocational training whilst unemployed, and the training is related to the work you carried out in your previous work
• you’re temporarily unable to work in the late stages of pregnancy
• you’re on maternity or paternity leave, and you return to your previous employment, or find another job, at the end of this period

You’ll need to apply for a frontier worker document to enter the UK as a frontier worker. We will update this page when more information is available.

Irish citizens do not need to do anything to continue working in the UK after 31 December 2020. Find out more about the rights of Irish citizens in the UK after Brexit.