ZeeAsh

Hi,

If someone is in Australian on PR and his Australian employer send him on task/job out side Australia for few months or a year .. Does this outside australia period will count towards Citizenships requirment number of days .. I mean 4 years to get citizenship? If Yes then how this time could be included ..

Cheers.

JAJ

Time up to about 25% will be ignored. Anything over that and the residence clock will be re-set.

ZeeAsh

Does it mean that there is maximum 1 year exemption in this case? i.e 1 year out of 4 years

and addition to the above question - What document can be used to suuport that 25% time .. Company letters .. or something else .. ?

melb3000

it's not counted toward. So regardless of the time overseas for ur employers or whatever, you must add up ALL the amount of time spent IN Australia equivilent to at least 3 years in the last 4 years, and in the last 12 months immediately before you apply for citizenship, you can't be outside the country for more than 3 months. otherwise, you need to wait until the time spent calculation satisfies again.

mark213

I went for a weeks holiday and this moved my elidgable date by 1 week as well. Bascially in my case it needed to be exactly 2 years inside AU.

JAJ

But the rules are a little different since 1 July 2007.