In excess of 500 Immigration, residency by investment, citizenship by investment, work permits, skilled workers, refugee and short-term labor programmes have places on the immigration map today. All are programmes that grant none citizens of any given country the right to stay for different periods of time.
Registration of immigrants, renewal of immigrants’ status, etc., notwithstanding its thoroughness in each offering country, remains fragile and incomprehensive.
Some of the world’s most advances immigration welcoming countries continue to have issues with foreign nationals remaining in said countries beyond the periods authorized for this foreign national’s stay.
Immigrants to Canada are entitled to obtain a driver’s license. If an immigrant seizes to be an immigrant for violation of certain inland immigration laws, may continue, on his her discretion to carry this driver’s license for as long as the license is valid. If this former-immigrant’s record was pulled out from the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, a couple of years after his immigration status was expired, the license would still show as “Valid”. This will cause a statistical anomaly when the Ministry of Transport submits its reports to Statistics Canada for the Census programme.
A n Investor from China purchasing a home in Cyprus for the purpose of attaining citizenship by investment is indeed considered a resident of Cyprus, he/she however are not! National ID cards are issued to them, nationality certificates and if they so choose driver licenses. This investor who predominantly cohabits in Beijin does not really live in Cyprus, yet he increments the citizens counter one digit up.
Statistic engines in immigration offering countries are yet to witness major enhancements and sophisticated integration of immigrant numbers in order for the readings to be more accurate and mitigate the risk of overshooting citizen/residents counts by virtue of shadow population.
