legal residence
Example Sentences
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Greater financial incentives under Customs and Border Protection’s Home program could encourage voluntary departures, and those who remain should be allowed, after careful vetting, to apply for legal residence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
Some existing protections, such as means of confirming legal residence and identity, will be retained.
From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026
“Your legal residence is where your life is rooted, the place you come back to,” he explained.
From Slate • Oct. 3, 2025
The former president changed his legal residence from New York City to Palm Beach, Florida, in 2019.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024
One effect of this has been to drive very wealthy men from Ohio or other Western States to a legal residence in the East, where the laws are more lenient, or their enforcement more lax.
From Popular Law-making by Stimson, Frederic Jesup
