Residence permits statistics

Residence permits statistics is used to analyse trends in the number of permits, issuance reason, length of validity, and citizenship.

Person.

Third-country nationals who received residence permits.

• Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on migration and international protection and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 311/76 on the compilation of statistics on foreign workers
• Regulation (EU) 2020/851 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection; 
• Commission Regulation (EU) No 216/2010 of 15 March 2010 implementing Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on migration and international protection, as regards the definitions of categories of the reasons for the residence permits.

Statistics database

Eurostat (statistical office of the European Union) is responsible for publishing high-quality Europe-wide statistics and indicators that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Statistics is available in the Eurostat database, in section: Managed migration.

Comparable data are available from 2008.

There are no coherence issues with other data sets.

Residence Permit Register. 

Standard Eurostat templates are used for data collection. Data is derived from the Residence Permit Register according to the selection conditions. All types of residence permits issued on the basis of precise article of the Imigration Law. If it is required, additional manual processing is performed to ensure that the data conform to the Eurostat requested breakdown.

Data is based on requirements of the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007. Estimation is not used. For each report the required records are extracted, aggregated and counted, and tabulated into the table, all processes are according to the Eurostat guidelines.