legal residence


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Noun1.legal residence - (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to returnlegal residence - (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time; "what's his legal residence?"
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
abode, residence - any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a person can have several residences"
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Following five years' uninterrupted legal residence they can apply for Right of Permanent Residence.
She also said that foreign workers can enjoy lower income tax rate as long as they can prove that they have a legal residence status.
Without a new passport, he has been unable to apply for legal residence in Belarus since 2016.
'If the decedent has no legal residence in the Philippines, the return shall be filed with RDO 039-South Quezon City,' the BIR added.
The Cayetano couple's bid for a seat at the House of Representatives was previously beset by a petition filed by a Taguig electorate seeking to cancel their certificates of candidacy for listing different addresses when the usual place of abode of the husband and wife, as jointly fixed by them, is their one legal residence for the purpose of running for public office.
Mr Sherooqi has also pledged assistance in three other cases referred to his office by the GDN, the latest of which involves Indian Soorp Lal, who has been stranded in Bahrain for 15 years without a passport or legal residence permit.
However, 20 years ago, they refused to reunite him with his family or grant him a residence permit or "visa", knowing that he has no legal residence anywhere else in the world, including in the West Bank or Jordan, thus, deeming him an "illegal resident".
Alvarez moved to Salem from Mexico, and lives in Oregon without proof of legal residence. Under state law, that means she isn't eligible for a driver's license.
But it remains dire: 70 percent are under the poverty line, and 73 percent remain without legal residence, reducing their ease of movement and increasing the risk of imprisonment.
During the hearing, the court had ordered Lee to pay a bail of 1 billion won and ordered him to stay in his legal residence and meet or communicate with his immediate family members and legal representatives.
But the Gang of Eight said that border security measures, including the fence, had to be funded and built before those illegal immigrants could be given permanent legal residence in the United States.

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