Many long-term foreign residents woke up to the new year only to find out they were illegal.

Security guards are recommended at the homes of long-term foreign residents.

"There has been an influx of goods into the stores," a long-term foreign resident said.

In the long run, the aim is to establish an official status for long-term foreign residents in the territory of the Member States.

Women in kimonos mix with bilingual high school students and long-term foreign residents, representing the mosaic that is becoming contemporary Japanese culture.

SabadellSolbank: the group brand specialising in the retail market for long-term foreign residents in Spain and companies operating in the residential tourism sector.

It had been played at the treaty ports (Kobe and Yokohama especially) before that, between teams of long-term foreign residents and visiting ships' crews, garrisons etc.

We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait, and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town, all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory.

For all his sensitivity to the theme of cultural displacement ("We may never really see the long-term foreign resident," Peake astutely notes), Mr. Fenno's vivid references to an English childhood spent in English schools, along with his idiomatic ease with the language, suggest that he's a British author.

In our view, this idea is fundamentally flawed, as it will make the existing status uniform and more rigid, and deprive each Member State of any margin for manoeuvre in an area - namely, the presence of long-term foreign residents on its territory - which must, first and foremost, remain a matter for the national sovereignties.