Meanings of legal residency in English

Immigrants can apply for citizenship after five years of legal residency here.

Retiring to Florida may not be enough to give up legal residency elsewhere.

For Day that would win legal residency for her partner and the couple's daughter.

More important is to obtain legal residency, Chmiel said.

Two of them were eventually able to obtain legal residency, but the other two remain undocumented.

He has since applied for permanent legal residency.

Still others were told that the money would open a path to legal residency in the United States.

The immigration office said that deferments under DACA do not confer legal residency but gives prosecutors discretion on enforcing immigration laws.

Investors can obtain a residency permit within eight to twelve months, and after five years of legal residency, can gain Portuguese citizenship.

Doumbouye is one of a small number of African immigrant women who are securing legal residency in the United States through political asylum.

An extra incentive: a child born there would be a citizen and could make it easier for them to obtain legal residency someday.

The US Senate has approved building fences along strategic parts of the US-Mexico border and barring illegal immigrants with criminal records from legal residency.

He would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and make it easier for those with legal residency to become citizens as well.

Like asylum, the special protection program has been used by immigration advocates and attorneys as a path to legal residency in the United States.

Their two daughters, born in the grassland, did not have legal residency in Beijing, and the mother had to stay where the children belonged.

Around 800,000 foreigners, mostly North Africans and Latin Americans, are estimated to be living in Spain without legal residency or work permits.