BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights

Israeli citizenship and residency laws do not differentiate between men and women.

Both have equal rights regarding acquisition, changing or retaining their nationality or residency.

These persons were only given temporary residency permits allowing no access to community services, thereby forcing hundreds of families to live in East Jerusalem in precarious circumstances with no guarantee of renewal or a more permanent residency status.

This is just like a residency program, for those of you that are in medical school.

At the legal level, secure and durable residency rights, followed in due course by citizenship, are

They had lost their residency and other rights, their rights to health and education, in particular, and it was estimated that up to 70,000 Jerusalem ID card holders might lose their residency and other rights in the near future because of the wall.

Of the five successful candidates, none has United States citizenship and one has United States permanent residency status.

Of the eight successful candidates, two are United States citizens, and three have United States permanent residency status.

8 This covers residency in Jerusalem, income taxes, social services, and infrastructure, sewage and water taxes, as well as TV and radio taxes.

For example, last February, the State Council announced plans to reform the hukou (household registration) system, which assigns legal residency according to a person s place of birth. The system makes relocating very difficult, as those who do not manage to acquire local residency permits face major hurdles in gaining access to public services when they migrate to other provinces.

Throughout these proceedings, it was made clear that if they did not obtain permanent residency or if visas expired, they would have to leave.

Under the new policy, foreign partners will be entitled to temporary resident status after 12 months of cohabitation and permanent residency after 7 years of cohabitation.

So in 2004, during my surgical residency, I had the great fortune to meet Dr. Roger Chen, who went on to win the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2008.

Streamlining of residency permit and work authorization issuance procedures for émigré men who marry women with nationality of the host country, to make it easier for them to support their families

The eligibility criteria for the consultative poll are the same as those applied in the Access Poll undertaken in 2002, with the exception of the residency requirement, which has been reduced.8

In May 2017, Jinan issued regulations stating that undergraduates who make social security contributions consecutively for half a year will be entitled to be treated under the same residential property purchase policies as that of local residents with permanent residency.

) The wall being constructed around East Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumin would also severely affect the mobility and residence rights of 230,000 Palestinians holding East Jerusalem residency permits, although a quarter of them were already living on the West Bank side of the wall.

The Court concluded that this distinction is based on residency status and is not one of the prohibited grounds of discrimination enumerated in section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (equality rights) nor is it an analogous ground to that list.

People who are not on the Register of Electors but who are citizens of British Dependant Territories, British citizens or British overseas citizens, over 16 years of age and who have St. Helenian status or fulfil a residency requirement may vote in the consultative poll.

(j) Welcomes the practice in States with developed asylum systems of allowing refugees to integrate locally and calls on these States to continue supporting refugees' ability to attain this durable solution through the timely grant of a secure legal status and residency rights, and or to facilitate naturalization

Although his previous crime caused the revocation of his refugee status, he requested the immigration judge to waive his crime in order to gain permanent residency status and relief from removal either in the form of asylum, withholding of removal or protection under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

The Chinese government is therefore considering several policies to increase the pace of urbanization, including the creation of several new large cities to accommodate some of the 600 million individuals who still live in rural China. Similarly, the government will phase out the hukou system of residency permits that now prevents migrants to the cities from obtaining full health care and education benefits.

The big, cosmopolitan cities of Beijing and Shanghai have grown dramatically, but the bulk of the urban migration has been to cookie cutter small and medium size industrial towns that have mushroomed over the last decade. By clustering industrial infrastructure and using the hukou system of city specific residency permits, the authorities have been able to control the process surprisingly well.

A major reconsideration of the one child policy is especially important, given the need to relieve pressures arising from the inevitable decline in China s working age population. Reform of the hukou (residency permit) system to allow citizens to transfer their welfare benefits from one city to another is vital for an increasingly flexible labor force that now includes almost 200 million migrant workers.

And the third one got the same wry smile and said, Well, while you were off doing your research, and you were off doing your monkey meatball surgery, that eventually we'll train monkeys to do, or cells or robots, or maybe not even need to do it at all, I was off running the future of the residency program, which is really the future of medicine.

The US Senate will also consider a bill co authored by Senator Edward Kennedy and Senator John McCain, which proposes stronger border enforcement, a temporary workers program with a path to residency and citizenship, and legalization for people already in the US without papers. Another idea is to require anyone in the US wanting to regularize their immigration status to go home and wait in line there.

The reform plan was supposed to improve the situation by allowing migrants in towns and small cities to acquire local residency permits more freely, while easing the requirements in medium sized cities. But efforts to reform the system have been met with strong resistance, especially from local governments and residents, who fear the strain that unregulated migration to their cities will have on resources, employment, and services.

Research and investigation in the field of counter terrorism has confirmed that the failure of these countries to coordinate with Tunisia and heed its opinion in consideration of requests for political asylum from Tunisian extremists has allowed some such elements to exploit this noble right in service of their objectives, in particular with regard to residency, raising money and forming groups with terrorist goals.

The Ontario Court of Appeal accepted the Ontario's position that the definition of residency for the purpose of eligibility draws a distinction between persons who are ordinarily resident in Ontario and who are entitled, or will shortly be entitled, to stay in Ontario on a permanent basis and those who, while ordinarily resident in Ontario are not, because of their immigration status, entitled to remain permanently in Ontario.

In its effort to control rising housing prices, China s government has pursued nine distinct policies, not all of which have served their purpose. Though policies like limits on mortgages for first time buyers and minimum residency requirements for purchasing property in a first tier city like Beijing or Shanghai helped to ease demand, supply side tactics, such as limiting credit to real estate developers and imposing new taxes on property sales, have proved to be counter productive.