My wife had 11 days missing for LTR and after 8 1/2 months she got rejected in Nov 2006 (application sent in May 2006). She only had 1814 days recognized ( it happened because her work permit was always late for renewal and there were always days missing by the time she could go and stamp her passpo...

I've mentioned that I've learned this the hard way. Well, it was for my wife, she is non-EU and very unlucky regarding the work permit and the residency & naturalization process. She also worked for 5 years on minimum wage. I was lucky, I've been here since Aug. 2000, on six work permits, on goo...

Hi All, I've learned the hard way the difference in calculating the "Reckonable Residency" for the two application processes. All depends on the stamps you have in the passport, be careful to send them the best xerox copy you can make of your passport and work permits. For Naturalization: ...