For those who gain residency, the biggest challenge may be shedding the attitudes developed in years of camp life.

On the French tour he played against his brother, who by then had gained French residency.

That law eventually allowed about three million undocumented residents from all countries to gain permanent residency.

While in Canada, he attempted to gain American residency.

A nationwide amnesty in 1986 allowed 1.1 million undocumented Mexicans to gain legal residency.

The special treatment that only Cubans receive also extends to gaining residency.

(also you are at the retirement age to gain residency there)

Leghaei challenged the government's security assessment of him in his bid to gain permanent residency.

Many of them are deciding to stay by gaining permanent residency.

He gained permanent residency in the United States in 2010.