Not without assessing the relevant employment facts. The first service date may differ from the start of qualifying full-time foreign employment.
Calculate from the actual qualifying record
Review continuity, capacity and the relevant three-year period before setting commitments. Do not assume a consulting anniversary resolves eligibility or that a management offer supplies the missing history. A consulting arrangement can raise a full-time question separate from the anniversary-date question, because the qualifying period abroad has to reflect genuine full-time work for the qualifying organization, not a part-time or project-based engagement that happened to start on a particular date.
Review how the consulting work was actually structured, including hours, exclusivity, and who directed the work day to day, since an arrangement billed through occasional invoices does not automatically establish the same continuous, full-time relationship that ordinary employment would. Separately, confirm whether the entity that engaged the consultant is itself part of the qualifying organization or a related entity with its own qualifying relationship, since work performed for an unrelated client does not count toward the record even if it was full-time and continuous. Both questions have to be resolved before treating any date on an invoice as the practical start of the qualifying period, because a date alone does not establish either the full-time element or the organizational connection the record actually needs, and each element has to be confirmed on its own before relying on that date for planning purposes.