Residential requirements
In order to demonstrate the residential requirements for naturalisation you need to:
* have been resident in the United Kingdom for at least three years (this is known as the residential qualifying period); and
* have been present in the United Kingdom three years before the date of your application; and
* have not spent more than 270 days outside the United Kingdom during the three-year period; and
* have not spend more than 90 days outside the United Kingdom in the last 12 months of the three-year period; and
* have not been in breach of the immigration rules at any stage during the three-year period.
http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/bri...tnerofcitizen/
and there is a possibility that if you can show your 2 months is work related, that them 2 months your wife was not in the uk would not be counted, but check with ukba about that
