Bill to Boost Rights of Foreign Residents
From Times Wire Reports
Hundreds of long-term foreign residents in Bermuda, long denied equal rights to homeownership and employment, will be eligible for Bermudan citizenship under new legislation in this mid-Atlantic British territory.
Bermuda’s government unveiled plans to grant citizenship to as many as 400 residents and job protection through a permanent residents’ certificate for up to 1,100 more of the estimated 2,000 residents who have lived on the island 20 years or longer.
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