I had a similar situation long time ago. Actually I have posted here before. My WP was from 15-09-2000 to 15-09-2003, but I arrived in the Netherlands at the end of Sep 2000. To fit to the date of the WP, my contract was also started from 15-09-2000, although I did not really work for the first half month. However, when I extended my residence permit in 2003, IND said that the three years uninterrupted WP has to count from when I was legally resident in the Netherlands, in this way I was lacking of WP from 15-09-2003 to 17-10-2003 (my first residence permit started from 17-10-2000, sounds like the date they received my application). So the personnel office applied a new WP for me. CWI thought a WP of one month is ridiculous, so they acctually gave me a WP until 17-10-2004 (which exceeds my contract for an AIO). The process of the new WP was quite fast, may be because the contract was still the same. And the new residence permit I received (due to the normal delay of IND, that was after 17-10-2003) said I don't need a WP to work on the back side.
So about the date, your P&O is correct. They have to apply a new WP for you to cover the gap. Anyway, that was before the KM policy, they didn't have other choice. |