Immigration

Number of residence permits issued to foreigners per year by type of permit and country of origin

Number of foreign citizens with legal residence cards by end year by country of origin

Country	2006	2007	VI 2008
Total	80360	76354	64314
Ukraine	22316	21469	19518
Russian Fed.	10296	9514	7362
Vietnam	6756	6379	5849
Belarus	6074	6362	5949
Armenia	3039	2812	2795
Bulgaria	2096	1524	876
USA	2068	1989	1547
Germany	1706	1500	744
Turkey	1179	1154	1193
India	1174	1251	1258

All residence permit holders

Number of foreign citizens with legal residence cards by end year by country of origin

Country	2006	2007	I-VI 2008
Total	80360	76354	64314
Ukraine	22316	21469	19518
Russian Fed.	10296	9514	7362
Vietnam	6756	6379	5849
Belarus	6074	6362	5949
Armenia	3039	2812	2795
Bulgaria	2096	1524	876
USA	2068	1989	1547
Germany	1706	1500	744
Turkey	1179	1154	1193
India	1174	1251	1258
China	1021	1095	1090
Kazakhstan	914	882	878
Mongolia	728	670	663
Japan	698	683	623
Lithuania	689	603	331
Syria	651	550	387
South Korea	632	758	846
Czech Republic	595	559	384
Sweden	592	545	292
United Kingdom	565	532	317
Greece	559	526	237
Algeria	549	501	332
Italy	522	462	250
Hungary	521	476	245
Moldova	519	570	530
France	507	457	230
Romania	503	335	186
Nigeria	426	580	488
Other	12465	11616	8914

Permanent residence

Number of persons applying for permanent residence permit and number of persons with issued decisions per year by country of origin

Citizenship	Applications				Issued decisions
					2006				2007				I-VI 2008
	2006	2007	I-VI 2008	Total	Positive	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Total	Positive	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Total	Positive	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Total
Ukraine	1708	2059	897	4664	1438	105	83	1626	1609	130	93	1832	936	51	80	1067
Belarus	660	728	351	1739	602	27	16	645	567	61	26	654	337	20	26	383
Russian Fed.	304	277	149	730	286	26	16	328	224	27	21	272	139	10	13	162
Vietnam	167	142	86	395	138	23	25	186	125	11	11	147	95	3	2	100
Armenia	152	100	58	310	110	24	27	161	91	16	9	116	55	6	6	67
Kazakhstan	98	88	23	209	85	1	5	91	74	5	3	82	45	2	2	49
Turkey	61	58	32	151	53	8	6	67	40	6	8	54	22	1	5	28
USA	57	60	39	156	46	3	11	60	40	6	7	53	28	1	4	33
Moldova	43	27	9	79	43	3	3	49	20	3	0	23	13	0	0	13
Bulgaria	41	2	8	51	42	3	0	45	2	0	3	5	9	0	0	9
Nigeria	30	25	27	82	18	1	3	22	16	1	5	22	16	0	6	22
Georgia	28	16	2	46	25	1	1	27	13	0	2	15	5	0	1	6
India	27	25	13	65	27	3	5	35	18	1	2	21	11	1	1	13
Algeria	20	18	16	54	11	2	2	15	16	2	5	23	7	0	1	8
Egypt	17	23	21	61	12	3	1	16	14	3	3	20	11	1	3	15
Romania	17	2	0	19	18	3	0	21	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0
China	15	21	11	47	13	7	2	22	13	0	5	18	7	0	2	9
Mongolia	13	19	6	38	7	6	2	15	11	2	5	18	9	0	0	9
Morocco	11	16	5	32	12	0	0	12	8	1	1	10	9	0	1	10
Serbia and Montenegro	12	0	0	12	12	3	2	17	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Serbia	10	15	10	35	7	0	0	7	14	0	1	15	7	0	0	7
Syria	10	13	7	30	10	1	0	11	4	0	6	10	6	0	2	8
Uzbekistan	10	11	1	22	6	1	4	11	10	1	2	13	4	0	0	4
Total of foreigners	3792	3988	1971	9751	3255	284	241	3780	3124	298	250	3672	1961	105	171	2237

Long-term residence

Number of persons applying for long-term EC resident’s residence permit and number of persons with issued permits per year by country of origin

Citizenship	Applications				Issued decisions
					2006				2007				I-VI 2008
	2006	2007	I-VI 2008	Total	Positive	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Total	Positive	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Total	Positive	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Total
Ukraine	613	436	209	1258	424	105	48	577	347	75	51	473	153	23	23	199
Russian Fed.	148	126	55	329	96	16	21	133	96	16	24	136	32	9	14	55
Vietnam	121	52	18	191	73	32	31	136	30	19	14	63	14	0	4	18
Belarus	103	85	47	235	58	24	5	87	63	19	9	91	32	6	7	45
India	95	38	16	149	73	9	8	90	37	4	5	46	13	1	1	15
Armenia	54	65	17	136	26	12	8	46	44	16	3	63	12	4	4	20
Turkey	58	58	23	139	42	13	9	64	32	6	5	43	18	3	6	27
China	36	11	6	53	23	12	2	37	5	8	2	15	3	2	2	7
USA	29	27	25	81	15	8	4	27	26	1	3	30	10	0	1	11
Mongolia	27	36	8	71	17	6	0	23	13	9	9	31	9	2	4	15
South Korea	27	26	13	66	18	1	0	19	12	5	4	21	12	1	6	19
Moldova	21	10	5	36	13	1	2	16	11	2	0	13	6	0	0	6
Syria	14	17	5	36	14	1	2	17	9	2	2	13	3	2	0	5
Total of foreigners	1504	1106	504	3114	995	278	162	1435	804	217	84	1105	345	57	90	492

Fixed-term residence

Number of persons applying for fixed-term residence permit and number of persons with issued decisions per year by country of origin

Citizenship	Applications				Issued decisions
					2006					2007					I-VI 2008
	2006	2007	I-VI 2008	Total	Positive	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Tolerated stay	Total	Positive	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Tolerated stay	Total	Positive	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Tolerated stay	Total
Ukraine	8649	8558	4038	21245	7733	474	332	0	8539	7381	367	256	0	8004	3986	155	197	0	4338
Vietnam	1864	2643	1277	5784	1496	267	105	0	1868	1673	157	82	0	1912	1274	75	92	0	1441
Belarus	1855	2418	1210	5483	1647	86	74	0	1807	1992	78	73	0	2143	1253	41	52	0	1346
Russian Fed.	1601	1463	723	3787	1393	93	77	0	1563	1273	75	65	1	1414	695	25	43	0	763
Armenia	1506	1773	863	4142	1199	269	120	0	1588	1265	98	86	0	1449	808	90	120	0	1018
USA	974	923	508	2405	875	30	39	0	944	854	30	45	0	929	454	4	18	0	476
Turkey	712	815	500	2027	590	45	30	0	665	640	45	45	0	730	462	24	36	0	522
India	672	800	507	1979	588	25	43	0	656	628	23	40	0	691	487	21	21	0	529
South Korea	581	1027	583	2191	488	11	16	0	515	876	21	14	0	911	546	13	31	0	590
Bulgaria	545	2	0	547	497	72	25	0	594	7	3	71	0	81	0	0	0	0	0
China	518	898	630	2046	383	41	24	1	449	672	97	47	0	816	519	26	27	0	572
Japan	505	653	402	1560	471	4	8	0	483	584	4	13	0	601	343	6	12	0	361
Mongolia	421	408	189	1018	369	34	17	0	420	317	21	20	0	358	196	15	10	0	221
Nigeria	345	631	376	1352	255	35	15	0	305	546	47	16	0	609	321	15	16	0	352
Taiwan	328	229	185	742	302	5	0	0	307	261	7	4	0	272	187	3	2	0	192
Tunisia	293	298	155	746	208	54	23	0	285	253	16	10	0	279	140	8	6	0	154
Kazakhstan	287	407	82	776	277	8	10	0	295	295	7	5	0	307	186	10	8	0	204
Moldova	237	322	251	810	227	4	6	0	237	280	9	8	0	297	219	8	7	0	234
Egypt	160	209	112	481	149	11	4	0	164	181	12	8	0	201	97	2	6	0	105
Romania	156	1	0	157	156	13	8	0	177	0	0	11	0	11	0	0	0	0	0
Syria	153	175	70	398	148	10	2	0	160	140	18	4	0	162	72	2	6	0	80
Georgia	113	122	62	297	84	11	11	0	106	93	5	1	0	99	74	3	4	0	81
Libya	112	74	23	209	101	5	10	0	116	49	6	9	0	64	25	15	0	0	40
Total of foreigners	25660	28557	14656	68873	22376	1740	1135	2	25253	23240	1358	1082	1	25681	14164	779	1033	0	15976

EU citizens

Number of persons with valid EU citizen residence cards by end year by country of origin

Citizenship	2006	2007	I-VI 2008
Austria	698	687	687
Belgium	458	450	449
Belarus	1	1	1
Cyprus	21	20	20
Czech Republic	453	443	440
Denmark	574	561	561
Estonia	38	36	36
Finland	163	159	159
France	2543	2481	2478
Greece	169	162	161
Spain	430	407	407
India	1	1	1
Ireland	220	219	219
Iceland	4	4	4
Lithuania	571	538	535
Luxemburg	16	16	16
Latvia	145	138	138
Malta	5	5	5
Netherlands	1052	1044	1043
Germany	11365	11039	11025
Norway	213	183	183
Portugal	248	241	241
Slovakia	393	384	384
Slovenia	51	51	51
Switzerland	97	97	96
Sweden	870	844	841
Ukraine	1	1	1
Hungary	194	191	190
United Kingdom	1966	1932	1930
Italy	1367	1340	1337
Total	24327	23675	23639

Number of EU citizens applying for registration of residence and number of certificates and decision issued per year by country of origin

Citizenship	Applications			Issued certificates			Issued decisions
							2007			I-VI 2008
	2007	I-VI 2008	Total	26 VIII 2006 - 31 XII 2007	I-VI 2008	Total	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Total	Negative	Discontinued proceedings	Total
Australia	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Austria	262	71	333	228	71	299	0	1	1	0	1	1
Belgium	168	70	238	131	70	201	2	1	3	0	0	0
Bulgaria	1315	238	1553	1146	193	1339	11	1	12	1	1	2
Cyprus	4	4	8	2	5	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
Czech Republic	213	54	267	201	56	257	0	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	197	51	248	158	47	205	0	1	1	0	2	2
Estonia	17	5	22	13	5	18	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finland	95	41	136	78	40	118	1	0	1	0	0	0
France	902	210	1112	818	235	1053	1	4	5	0	1	1
Germany	7373	1788	9161	6654	1697	8351	34	39	73	6	20	26
Greece	69	21	90	60	20	80	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hongkong	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Hungary	93	43	136	84	41	125	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iceland	7	0	7	6	0	6	1	0	1	0	0	0
Ireland	79	16	95	74	13	87	0	0	0	0	0	0
Italy	723	260	983	651	276	927	0	1	1	0	1	1
Kazakhstan	2	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuania	271	76	347	236	85	321	0	2	2	1	2	3
Latvia	74	19	93	59	14	73	1	0	1	0	0	0
Luxemburg	3	2	5	3	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malta	2	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Monaco	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	378	145	523	332	139	471	2	0	2	2	0	2
Niger	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norway	151	35	186	88	31	119	4	1	5	2	0	2
Poland	1	3	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Portugal	157	48	205	152	46	198	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romania	327	93	420	306	86	392	1	1	2	0	1	1
Slovakia	175	72	247	160	73	233	0	1	1	0	1	1
Slovenia	34	10	44	33	8	41	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spain	353	80	433	306	90	396	1	1	2	1	0	0
Sweden	315	87	402	299	89	388	0	1	1	0	2	2
Switzerland	65	24	89	57	23	80	0	1	1	0	0	0
Tajikistan	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkey	2	1	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ukraine	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
United Kingdom	865	199	1064	796	204	1000	2	7	9	1	3	4
USA	2	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Western Sahara	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stateless	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	14701	3768	18469	13139	3660	16799	61	64	125	14	35	49