Hello people!
The person who had the B status for four years is me
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. I came here first as a AIESEC trainee and at that time I had B3 residence permit then there were economical problems in the company and I had to leave. Luckily I could find another company but being careless I didn't apply to change B3 status around a year.
Then a very nice officer told me to apply for B1 and I applied for it. After having B1 for around 1.5 years I applied for A1 and it was rejected. Officer told me I can appeal but I didn't, just because I thought it might be troublesome to do so.
Then because of my laziness I had this B1 for around 2.5 years and yesterday I realized that people deciding this citizenship don't care about all these 4 years even though I worked and studied for the most of the period. I only didn't work for around 3-4 months while looking for a job but after that, I always worked for the same company and I actually had a permanent contract after 4 months. In other words I had a permanent contract for around 3.2 years.
I also studied for the last 2 years and I wasn't a full time worker for that time period. When the decision maker didn't give me A1, he said that I should have had B1 for 2 years but interestingly there was a new law at that time and I don't understand why it didn't apply for my case.
I have two friends in Oulu, coming from the same country, having similar jobs. When their applications are processed with the new law, one of them got the A permit after 6 months of stay here. The other got it around 16 months later. So isn't there some injustice in the case? How can I win back my years or are they just lost because of a sloppy officer?
I will appreciate any kind of help in this case. Thanks.
PS: I know that the case is not very straightforward but please ask me for clarifications if I couldn't explain it crystal clear.