Permanent Residency

Permanent residency refers to a person's visa status: the person is allowed to reside indefinitely within a country of which he or she is not a citizen. A person with such status is known as a permanent resident.

Read more about Permanent Residency:  Countries With Permanent Residency Systems, Limitations of Permanent Residents, Obligations of Permanent Residents, Loss of Status, Access To Citizenship, Automatic Entitlement, Proof of Permanent Residency

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    “Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)