They can say you are a con artist, waiting until the retention period expires before raising your claim.
The issue here is NOT whether you can keep your 500 shares for 7-10 years, the issue is why you didn't raise the claim of the 100 missing shares earlier. I assume you received quartlerly and annual statements.
If you put $500 dollars in a bank in 2005, received statements year after year saying only $400 left in the account, then and if now you went to bank and asked for the missing $100, what would the bank say? Tough luck. It is the same issue in cash deposit as in stock certificates.
Good luck.
The issue here is NOT whether you can keep your 500 shares for 7-10 years, the issue is why you didn't raise the claim of the 100 missing shares earlier. I assume you received quartlerly and annual statements.
If you put $500 dollars in a bank in 2005, received statements year after year saying only $400 left in the account, then and if now you went to bank and asked for the missing $100, what would the bank say? Tough luck. It is the same issue in cash deposit as in stock certificates.
Good luck.