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Checked residence versus physical-presence cohorts, France's B2 requirement, Portugal's May 2026 transition and unresolved implementing details, and the India Act's ordinary route separately from special CAA provisions. Required and rechecked corrections preserving Ireland's discretionary dependent-young-adult student-residence exception and Singapore's continuous-stay and 183-day tax-concession conditions; Canada's tax-filing wording was also clarified. UAE Articles 8, 9 bis, 11 and 12 bis were checked in both extracted Arabic and rendered PDF pages, and the PDF was independently reached through ICP's current laws-and-legislation listing. Approval of UAE facts is limited to the explicitly dated 20 September 2021 consolidation and does not establish an open application route, later implementing measures or practical obtainability. Tax topics remain baseline individual frameworks, not personal tax calculations. Missing language levels, India renunciation procedure and UAE practical availability remain explicitly unresolved. No visa evidence, statistical indicators, rendering, promotion or deployment is approved by this record. Candidate hash binds this approval to the reviewed text."},{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/review_pass412","reviewedAt":"2026-09-17","recheckBy":"2026-12-16","candidateSha256":"64932d3b70ab3dafd013ad115ddf2a151dbffcc9e8af04d7e7871cbf10e67f17","notes":"Independently opened all 11 cited official sources and checked all 19 facts across GB citizenship and IE, CA and HK individual-tax topics against their stated locators. UK Form AN is the July 2026 edition; the ordinary section 6(1) route, conditional absence discretion, B1 as one accepted language-evidence route, alternative evidence, exemptions and other-nationality warning are preserved. Irish summaries correctly distinguish residence, ordinary residence and domicile and retain the 30-day condition, arrival-election qualification and continuing foreign-income exceptions. Canadian summaries preserve factual ties, sojourning rather than all presence, part-year versus deemed residence and treaty overrides; non-resident withholding and filing are not collapsed into one procedure. All four Hong Kong authorities returned current official HTML through independent direct HTTPS requests when the browser fetcher failed. Hong Kong employment, business and property claims are conditional and confined to the individual baseline; neither universal foreign-income exemption nor a corporate FSIE conclusion is asserted. Rechecked the requested HKSAR-passport terminology correction. Candidate schema passed. 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Required and rechecked corrections preserving Ireland's discretionary dependent-young-adult student-residence exception and Singapore's continuous-stay and 183-day tax-concession conditions; Canada's tax-filing wording was also clarified. UAE Articles 8, 9 bis, 11 and 12 bis were checked in both extracted Arabic and rendered PDF pages, and the PDF was independently reached through ICP's current laws-and-legislation listing. Approval of UAE facts is limited to the explicitly dated 20 September 2021 consolidation and does not establish an open application route, later implementing measures or practical obtainability. Tax topics remain baseline individual frameworks, not personal tax calculations. Missing language levels, India renunciation procedure and UAE practical availability remain explicitly unresolved. No visa evidence, statistical indicators, rendering, promotion or deployment is approved by this record. 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UK Form AN is the July 2026 edition; the ordinary section 6(1) route, conditional absence discretion, B1 as one accepted language-evidence route, alternative evidence, exemptions and other-nationality warning are preserved. Irish summaries correctly distinguish residence, ordinary residence and domicile and retain the 30-day condition, arrival-election qualification and continuing foreign-income exceptions. Canadian summaries preserve factual ties, sojourning rather than all presence, part-year versus deemed residence and treaty overrides; non-resident withholding and filing are not collapsed into one procedure. All four Hong Kong authorities returned current official HTML through independent direct HTTPS requests when the browser fetcher failed. Hong Kong employment, business and property claims are conditional and confined to the individual baseline; neither universal foreign-income exemption nor a corporate FSIE conclusion is asserted. 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