Residence permit

In some cases (e.g. the UK[citation needed]) a temporary residence permit is required to extend a stay past some threshold, and can be an intermediate step to applying for permanent residency.

[4] Some countries have adopted biometric residence permits, which are cards including embedded machine readable information and RFID NFC capable chips.

[5] See German residence permit See Permanent residency in France In Italy the permesso di soggiorno is released by the Polizia di Stato 'state police'; it must be requested by the immigrant to be allowed to reside in the country[6] for more than eight days, or more than ninety days if having a visto d'ingresso 'travel visa' for tourism.

Biometric Residence permit, a type of card in lieu of visa which allows a non-British citizen to work & reside in the UK.

[8] Biometric Residence card, a type of card which allows European Union Settlement Scheme holders to work & reside in the UK.