So it seems that Work permits to foreign nationals dropped 19%, and I'm one of 346 people (Chinese) who hold a work permit (I think stamp4 based permits are counted in the stats). It's a year on into my application for naturalisation and apparently they are processing early 2009 applications now and the average processing time as stated on the INIS site is 26months. There are also budget cuts like everywhere else, and possible changes in rules and so on. It's going to be a bundle of fun waiting for my application to go through. By the way, I'm getting married! I better check to see if marriage before naturalisation has any major issues for my application.
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