On my resume/CV, I need to explain a 3-month gap wherein I was unemployed because I needed a work permit for the country where my then-future job was to be and the process had taken longer than expected (3 months longer, to be exact). I had of course terminated my previous employment, and so I had nothing to fall back on.
How do I write on my resume/CV "was unemployed for three months because of bureaucracy" without either making it look like I'm blaming or raising unwanted questions of "oh, why were they refused a residence permit?" I do not want to talk about it in any way to future employers: Nothing constructive can come of it and talking about it just wastes my time and the time of any potential interviewers.