Obtaining temporary residency was hard enough...I don't even want to think what permanent residency involves I've met enough people who can't even get temporary residency as their landlord won't allow them to register as residing in the flat - and so are here illegally. It's supposed to be changing in the new year, but... I swear, on one hand, it's fantastic that civil servants are easily accessible here, but on the other hand, they seem to specialise in the kind of misery that only the Jobcentre in the UK can hope to rival.