Switzerland - Work Skills & Ancestry - Self-Employed Permit (Bulgarians & Romanians)
SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS FROM BULGARIA AND ROMANIA Romanians and Bulgarians are entitled to exercise a self-employed occupation. In order to do so, they must report to the local authorities and apply for a residence permit. If they can prove that they actually intend to exercise a self employed occupation which enables them to cover their own needs, they will be granted a residence permit for five years. There are only a restricted number of permanent and short-term residence permits available for self-employed persons until 2011. This number may not be exhausted. Conditions for Nationals of Bulgaria and Romania taking up employment in Switzerland, providing services in Switzerland on self employed basis or companies based in these countries posting workers to Switzerland. ⢠Until the extension of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons to Bulgaria and Romania has entered in to force (foreseen between April and June 2009), the registration procedure is not applicable. ⢠After the entry in to force the same rules as for the EU 8 will apply.