New laws make it more difficult to acquire residency papers and easier for the authorities to expel undocumented or unwanted foreigners.

But don't forget my residency papers.

In 2003, it's one, two, three sets of residency papers, or you're out at the old ballgame.

But he had no residency papers and could not work.

Thousands of illegal immigrants with children in French schools hastened to meet an amnesty deadline today to apply for residency papers.

He has not yet secured Danish residency papers, so the couple lives apart.

In exchange for testifying, she received residency papers and a visa to continue working in the United States.

More than 36,000 service members are noncitizens, many holding the residency papers known as green cards.

Most importantly, the law did away with a longstanding policy that granted residency papers to immigrants lacking them after 10 years in the country.

She has moved to Beijing anyway, but the lack of residency papers means that she can only get part-time jobs.