residency status

Where you're legal

Residency status is a person's official classification regarding where they legally live, determining rights and obligations.

Immigration residency status indicates whether someone is a citizen, permanent resident, or visa holder: Her residency status allows her to work but not vote.

Tax residency status determines which jurisdiction can tax your income.

Medical residency status refers to whether a physician is still in training.

Opposites
legal presence

residency statusundocumented status

Lacking official authorization to reside

statelessness · illegal immigrant · visa overstay

permanence of stay

residency statustransience

Brevity of existence

temporary visa · itinerancy · nomadism · passing through · short-term stay

belonging/membership

residency statusexile

Banishment from homeland

deportation · expulsion · banishment · exclusion · inadmissibility

Family

state, status, resident, residence

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