Originally Posted by stevesainty (Post 13053797)

When you are a permanent resident, ie after 5 years, you can be absent for 2 years without affecting your residency.
Let´s be clear the residency visas are just that, you wish to become a permanent resident, there is no visa, at the moment, that can get around the 90 days in 180 in Schengen area.

Originally Posted by Chipmonk (Post 13053834)

It is 5 for UK nats under the WA