While most foreign residents can apply for permanent residency after seven years, maids are not eligible.
The number of foreign residents fell in the second quarter of this year by 2%.
Thus, ethnic Asians together constitute 93 percent of foreign residents, and non-Asians only 7 percent.
Nor has life for Austria's 750, 000 foreign residents, some 9% of the population, notably worsened.
Some foreign residents of Tbilisi had a better chance of fleeing the fighting.
Of the total of about 1.7m official foreign residents (1.3% of the population), the biggest group is ethnically Korean.
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There are about 2 million foreign residents - both legal and illegal immigrants.
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The new government's measures could open the door to citizenship for as many as 3m (including 900, 000 Turks) of Germany's 7.4m foreign residents.
Another suggested that before Saudi women can get licences the public could be conditioned by allowing female foreign residents, including household servants, to drive.
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All of this has sent a chill through Kabul's foreign residents.
Although the number of native Spaniards grew in 2012 by some 10, 000 - it only minimally offset the overall fall of nearly 216, 000 among registered foreign residents.
Nervousness among foreign residents of Saudi Arabia was heightened when a British man was killed on June 20th by a car bomb in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
On September 24th, 64% of the voters rejected a referendum proposal that would have forced some of Switzerland's foreign residents to leave, limiting the remainder to a maximum of 18% of the population.
Long-time foreign residents are faring no better.
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The Free Democrats, backed by a few of Mr Kohl's Christian Democrats, want to change the law so that children of long-time foreign residents in Germany can have German citizenship, as well as their parents', right from birth.
Hundreds of bars and nightclubs now dot city streets, and government statistics show the number of registered foreign residents by the end of 2008 has exploded to 152, 000 -- with Americans being the second largest community, trailing Japanese residents.
The city, famed for its focus on money and food, had 173, 000 foreign residents at the end of last year, an increase of 6.7% from a year earlier, and was home to a quarter of all expatriates on the mainland, according to state media.
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Cleveland lags in both family formation and has seen strong outmigration, but also attracts few foreign-born residents.
For those with higher education the gap widens: 12.5% for foreign-born residents and just 4.4% for native Germans.
There are also many schools for foreign workers and residents, including Indians, Europeans and others, that allow co-ed classes.
About 54% of the nation's 38 million foreign-born residents hail from Latin America and the Caribbean, according to government estimates.
North Korean mobile phone provider Koryolink is planning to launch a 3G data service for foreign visitors and residents from abroad.
The number of foreign-born residents in England and Wales has risen by nearly three million since 2001 to 7.5 million people, the 2011 census shows.
Their article revealed how a new and "complex research exercise" had identified some 371, 000 foreign-born residents who receive some kind of welfare payment.
Foreign-born residents account for about 12.6% of the U.S. population.
Data from the 2011 census released earlier this month shows the overall number of foreign-born residents in England and Wales has risen by nearly 3m since 2001 to 7.5m people.
One in five residents was born outside the U.S. The city attracted the second-highest number of new, foreign-born residents in the first decade of this century, after the more populous New York.
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