Interruption in legal stay

Last activity 06 March 2023 by Fahdijbeli

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residencecuriousityMember03 March 2023 06:49:12

Hi community,

I have a question regarding obtaining status of long term resident. Is the gap between obtaining A cards (although combine permit is approved, same employer) considered as an interruption? Period between two A cards is covered with Annex 49, but due to slow processing times and big waiting lines in municipalities next A card is not issued on time, although application was on time.

Peterjohn123Contributor03 March 2023 07:06:24

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@residencecuriousity

Hoi my friend, I tend to reply but I think you should search on this forum. It has been replied so many time just more or less the type of interruption you are mentioning. Even in Google.

tip: its called administration interruption

FahdijbeliActive member03 March 2023 07:38:48

@residencecuriousity No they are not gaps, the gap if you stay unemployed for months, sometimes you can be unemployed some days between two months and that would be ok because for the two months you would have a payslips with prorated salary. so in general gaps for type A are like missing payslips for certain months.

residencecuriousityMember03 March 2023 07:43:01

@Peterjohn123 thanks for your quick answer. I'm not able to find explicite definition of the interruption type i mentioned. I'm also trying to see if there are any experiences regarding these things within this community?

residencecuriousityMember03 March 2023 10:44:36

@Fahdijbeli are you sure talking about interruption in legal stay for obtaining a long residence and not application for a nationality?

FahdijbeliActive member04 March 2023 08:04:11

@residencecuriousity I am talking about the impact for obtaining belgium nationality. you must work without interruption for 5 years. Interruption here means your temporary residence (type A) has interruption and there are many causes for that interruption , the known obvious cause is you stay unemployed and that is because the type A is attached to only one employer.

residencecuriousityMember04 March 2023 08:33:04

@Fahdijbeli as you can see my question is about obtaining status of long term resident and not nationality (as that status is a condition to get nationality). Residence permit type A is not always attached to only one employer. In case if on your back side is stated that you have unlimited access to the labor market, your A card is not attached to that one employer, but you can change job without need to get new A card.

FahdijbeliActive member06 March 2023 11:46:19

@residencecuriousity Indeed by attached to one employer I mean to limited market, but for your main question the response is No that are not considered as gaps for obtaining both long residence (I think for D card (long term) you need to provide the last consecutives 6 payslips) or nationality.

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