Sentence examples for apply for residence from inspiring English sources

Both countries also allow spouses and children younger than 18 to apply for residence.

They have gotten her a lawyer who is helping her apply for residence under the Violence Against Women Act, so she can petition for her older son to join her.

In 1998, fewer than 2,500 foreign women applied to become permanent residents under the Violence Against Women Act, which allows abused wives to apply for residence without the support of their husbands.

Sumit Gupta, a 29-year-old civil engineering student at the University of Sydney, said he no longer felt safe walking home from his lab at night and was rethinking his plans to apply for residence after he completes his doctoral degree.

In 1993 he refused to ratify a law requiring Russians who wished to continue living in Estonia to apply for residence permits and to pass an Estonian language test, and in 1994 he forged an agreement with President Boris Yeltsin on the withdrawal of the remaining Russian troops from Estonia.

If refugees are able to flee to a safe area within their country of origin, they are ineligible to apply for residence in Sweden.

His report showed that by last October nearly 20% of people applying for residence in Britain on marriage grounds had been involved in proxy ceremonies.

Until then, they said, Syrian refugees applying for residence in the US were at risk of being denied entry for an act as small as selling sandwiches to rebel fighters.

We see Trotsky, full of vocal indignation, first banished to Alma-Ata and then expelled from the Soviet Union, facing rebuffs from one European democracy after another when he applied for residence.

By July 31st, when the amnesty expired, more than 150,000 people had applied for residence.The amnesty had the backing of many Costa Rican businessmen, who rely on Nicaraguan labour.

In a letter to Martin Salter, the Labour MP who chairs the all-party group of Gurkha rights, Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, also gave an assurance that those Gurkhas who are currently living in the UK and who are formally applying for residence would not be deported, regardless of whether they met the settlement criteria.