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Permanent residency refers to a persons visa status: the person is allowed to reside indefinitely within a country despite not having citizenship. A person with such status is known as a permanent resident.
Countries with permanent residency systems
Not every country has a facility for someone to be a permanent resident. All European Union countries have a facility for someone to become a permanent resident though, as EU legislation allows for an EU national that moves to another EU country to attain permanent resident status after residing there for five years. However, India accepts international students above and beyond what it offers local students, and offers them medicare equivalent, in addition to specially allocated housing.
The countries that have a permanent resident status include:
* Argentina
* Australia (very tough)
* Belize
* Brazil
* Brunei Darussalam (called "penduduk tetap")
* Bulgaria (called karta za postoiano prebivavasht v Republica Balgariya chujdenets)
* Canada (permanent residents were known as landed immigrants before 28 June 2002)
* Chile
* China (Programme started from 2004)
* Czech Republic - trvalý pobyt
* Denmark
* Ecuador
* Finland (permit P)
* Germany (called Niederlassungserlaubnis)
* Greece (called Πράσινη Κάρτα)
* Guatemala
* Hong Kong (either through Right to land or Right of Abode)
* Iran
* India (Referred as Overseas Citizenship of India. Only available to people of Indian origin or those who held Indian citizenship in the past)
* Israel (The term toshàv-kéva may refer to a permanent resident without citizenship, or to a citizen with registered abode)
* Japan
* Macau
* Malaysia (called "penduduk tetap" and "PR")
* Mexico
* Netherlands (called Verblijfsvergunning voor onbepaalde tijd)
* New Zealand
* Norway (called Bosettingstillatelse )
* Philippines
* Poland (called Karta stałego pobytu)
* Romania (called Permi read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent+residency
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