chris and farideh

dont know if anyone here know the answer, if you get to do foreign service like you have to leave Australia for a year or 2, can you still apply for your citizenship from outside the country?

Wendy

What do you mean by foreign service Farideh?

Here is a list of discretionary circumstances where you may be able to apply.

Discretions
You may apply for any of these residence discretions if you will be in Australia at the time your application is decided. If you will be overseas during this period only discretions 5 and 6 are applicable.

1. Periods during which a person was present in Australia as an unlawful non-citizen solely because of an administrative error may be treated as periods of lawful residence.
2. Periods of lawful residence in Australia but not as a permanent resident solely because of an administrative error may be treated as periods of permanent residence.
3. Periods of lawful residence in Australia but not as a permanent resident may be treated as a period of permanent residence if a person would otherwise suffer significant hardship or disadvantage.
4. Periods of confinement in a prison or psychiatric institution may be counted towards the residence requirement if it would be unreasonable not to do so, taking into account the circumstances which resulted in the person’s confinement.
5. Periods spent outside Australia by the permanent resident spouse (including de facto spouse), widow or widower of an Australian citizen may be treated as periods in Australia, if they had close and continuing association with Australia during that period.
6. Periods spent outside Australia by a permanent resident who is in a interdependent relationship with an Australian citizen may be treated as periods in Australia if they had close and continuing association with Australia during that period.

Note: You may lodge your application while you are overseas but you must be in Australia at the time your application is decided unless you are applying for discretion 5 or 6.

http://www.citizenship.gov.au/applyi...ligibility.htm

chris and farideh

When a company sends their employers to work outside the country to work for number of months or year, but you are only in that country because of your company sends you but not there because you migrated.