This additional education typically extends the residency period by three to four years.

During the residency period, the artist is given access to the centre's available equipment, facilities and provided a stipend.

Hospital Pharmacy Residents are paid during their residency period.

Mr. Sheng's only stipulation was that the residency period should last two years, rather than one, as has been the case until now.

The average residency period was less than five years.

For those not elderly or disabled, Mr. Languedoc said, the required residency period is two years.

But sympathetic parish officers often hid the registration, and did not reveal the presence of new arrivals until the required residency period was over.

Latvia is drawing up a similar language demand with a longer residency period.

However, by the time the scandal broke he had completed the required 3 years residency period and no further action was taken.

In addition, there is a minimum 40-day residency period prior to slaughter within a holding.