You are a cross-border worker (also called 'frontier' worker) if you work on one side of a border but live on the other, and return home at least once a week.

Who is considered a frontier worker?

A frontier worker is an individual who lives in one country, or EU member state, but who travels to work regularly in a different country or member state. This includes any EU citizen, or citizen of the EEA or Switzerland, who is employed or self-employed in the UK but lives elsewhere.

What is a frontier worker in the EU?

Definition(s) In the EU context , a worker who is employed in the frontier zone of an EU Member State but who returns each day or at least once a week to the frontier zone of a neighbouring country in which they reside and of which they are nationals.