In Switzerland, some get "temporary" residence permits of a year or more.
Some campaigners have criticised our decision to continue issuing biometric residence permits while scrapping the ID card for UK citizens.
We are required by European Union law to provide biometric residence permits to non-EU foreign nationals.
The Post Office has won a contract to take photographs and fingerprints of foreign nationals seeking biometric residence permits (BRPs).
"We are bringing in residence permits more and more and that is something which might accelerate that process," he said.
He hinted strongly that the proposal may well be accompanied by a much wider issuing of residence permits to migrants.
The remaining 37.1 % of the residence permits in our sample allowed families to reunite.
Out of 1422 residence permits obtained by Polish immigrants, only 47 correspond to refugees.
Migrants with residence permits therefore have the same rights as Swedish citizens and are covered by the welfare state.
Participants in the study received their residence permits within 3 months prior to baseline assessment.
[6] The residence permit application process must be completed during the first two months of residence.
