Metadata related to Tables A.1, A.2. and B.1. Inflows and outflows of foreign population

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1 Metadata related to Tables A.1, A.2. and B.1. Inflows and outflows of foreign population Types of migrant recorded in the data Other comments Australia Austria Belgium Canada Chile Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Permanent migrants: Includes offshore migration (Settler Arrivals) and onshore migration (people granted permanent residence while in Australia on a temporary visa). Permanent migrants include holders of a permanent visa, a temporary (provisional) visa where there is a clear intention to settle, citizens of New-Zealand indicating an intention to settle and persons otherwise eligible to settle. Outflows: The net loss of people counted in the population by people leaving Australia for 12 months or more in a 16-month period. Net Overseas Migration (NOM). Foreigners holding a residence permit and who have actually stayed for at least 3 months. Foreigners holding a residence permit and intenting to stay in the country for at least 3 months. Outflows include administrative corrections. Permanent migrants: Inflows of persons who have acquired permanent resident status (including onshore). Temporary migrants: Inflows (first entries) of people who are lawfully in Canada on a temporary basis under the authority of a temporary resident permit. Temporary residents include foreign workers (including seasonal workers), foreign students, refugee claimants, people allowed to remain temporarily in Canada on humanitarian grounds and other individuals entering Canada on a temporary basis who are not under a work or student permit and who are not seeking protection. Inflows: Temporary residence permits granted. Foreigners holding a permanent or a long-term residence permit or long term visas and persons who were granted asylum in the given year. Foreigners who live legally in Denmark, are registred in the Central population register, and have been living in the country for at least one year. From 2006 on, Statistics Denmark started using a new calculation on the underlying demographic data. The data from 2006 on are therefore not comparable with previous years. Outflows include administrative corrections. Foreigners expecting to stay in the country for a period of at least 12 months. Data refer to the fiscal year (July to June of the year indicated). Table B.1 presents the inflow of permanent migrants. Until 2001, data are from local population registers. Starting in 2002, they are from the central population register. The data for were revised to match with the results of the register-based census of Asylum seekers were formerly grouped under a single category. From 1st January 2008 on, they are classified like other migrants. This may explain some of the increase for certain nationalities between 2007 and Table B.1 presents the inflow of persons who have acquired permanent resident status only. Country of origin refers to country of last permanent residence. Due to privacy considerations, the figures have been subjected to random rounding. Under this method, all figures in the table are randomly rounded either up or down to multiples of 5. In 2000, data include only holders of a permanent residence permit. From 2001 on, data also include refugees and long-term residence permit holders. Excludes asylum seekers and all those with temporary residence permits. Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Population Registers, Statistics Austria. Population Register, Directorate for Statistics and Economic Information (DGSIE). Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Register of permits of residence granted, Department of Foreigners and Migration, Ministry of the Interior. Register of Foreigners, Population Information System of the Ministry of the Interior, Czech Statistical Office. Statistics Denmark. Population Register and Police and Border Guard Board (PBG), Statistics Estonia. 287

2 Finland France Germany Foreign nationals with a valid residence permit for longer than one year. Nordic citizens who are moving for less than 6 months are not included. Inflows: Based on the first permanent-type permits delivered. Include status changes from a temporary-type permit to a permanent-type permit. Foreigners holding a residence permit and intending to stay at least one week in the country. Includes foreign persons of Finnish origin. Excludes asylum seekers and persons with temporary residence permits. Excludes citizens from the European Economic Area. Includes asylum seekers living in private households. Excludes inflows of ethnic Germans. In 2008, local authorities started to purge registers of inactive records. As a result, higher emigration figures were reported from this year. Greece Initial issuance of residence permit. Does not refer to physical inflows but to flows into legal status. Hungary Inflows: Foreign citizens who entered Hungary in the given year and obtained a residence document according to legal regulations in effect. Outflows: Foreign citizens having a residence or a settlement document and who left Hungary in the given year without the intention to return, or whose permission s validity has expired and did not apply for a new one or whose permission was invalidated by authority due to withdrawal. From 2012, it contains estimations. Iceland Foreigners expecting to stay in the country for a period of at least 12 months. Ireland Figures are derived from the quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) series. All figures are based on year ending April. Inflows: The estimates relate to those persons resident in the country at the time of the survey and who were living abroad one year before (Table A.1.) Outflows: Persons resident in the country at a point in the previous twelve-month period who are now living abroad (Table A.2.). Data for years have been revised in line with revisions to the Population & Migration estimates published September Israel Data refer to permanent immigrants by last country of residence. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. Statistics Finland. Ministry of the Interior Federal Statistical Office. Ministry of Interior Affairs. Office of Immigration and Nationality, Central Statistical Office. Register of Migration Data, Statistics Iceland. Central Statistics Office. Population register, Central Bureau of Statistics. Italy Foreigners holding a residence, work or student permit. Excludes seasonal workers. Population Register, ISTAT. Japan Foreigners who got permission for landing, excluding temporary visitors and re-entries. Ministry of Justice, Immigration Bureau. Korea Data refer to long-term inflows/outflows (more than 90 days). Ministry of Justice. Luxembourg Mexico Metadata related to Tables A.1, A.2. and B.1. Inflows and outflows of foreign population Types of migrant recorded in the data Other comments Foreigners holding a residence permit and intending to stay in the country for at least 3 months. Until 2010, number of foreigners who are issued an immigrant permit for the first time ( inmigrante FM2) and 2012 also includes new and former refugees who obtained immigrated status ( inmigrado ). From 2013 is the number of foreigners with permanent residence card, as the 2011 Migration Act come into effect. The sharp increase of the numbers in 2013, is explained by administratives changes with the implementation of the 2011 Migration Act. The arrival of new foreigners into the country is similar to or lower than previous years. Most of these "new residents" are foreigners already in the country on a categoty nonimmigrat (temporary status). Central Office of Statistics and Economic Studies (Statec). Ministry of Interior, National Migration Institute (INM). 288

3 Metadata related to Tables A.1, A.2. and B.1. Inflows and outflows of foreign population Types of migrant recorded in the data Other comments Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Russian Federation Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Foreigners holding a residence permit and intending to stay in the country for at least four of the next six months. Total outflows (Table A2.) include the net administrative corrections, i.e. unreported emigration of foreigners. Inflows: Permanent and long-term arrivals (people from overseas arriving to live in New Zealand for 12 months or more (including permanently). Outflows: Permanent and long-term departures: Foreign-born returning to live overseas after a stay of 12 months or more in New Zealand. Foreigners holding a residence or work permit and intending to stay in the country for at least 6 months. Number of permanent and fixed-term residence permits issued. Since 26 August 2006, nationals of European Union Member States and their family members are no longer issued residence permits in Poland. However, they still need to register their stay in Poland, provided that they are planning to stay in Poland for more than three months. Data based on residence permits to 2004 figures include foreigners that entered the country with Long Term Visas (Temporary Stay, Study and Work) issued in each year and also foreigners with Stay Permits yearly delivered under the 2001 programme of regularisation ( in 2001, in 2002, in 2003 and 178 in 2004). In 2005, inflows include residence permits and long-term visas issued over the year. Since 2006, figures include long-term visas for non-eu 25 citizens and new residence titles attributed to EU 25 citizens (who do not need a visa). In 2011, inflows exclude foreigners who have regularised their situation under art.88.2 of the foreigner law (continuous regularisation). Inflows: By country of previous residence. Number of persons (both nationals and foreigners) registered in a place of residence and (since 2011) place of stay for 9 months and longer; Outflows: Persons de-registered from a place of residence and persons which were registration in a place of stay for 9 months and longer after registration expiry date. Until 2002, first long-term and permanent residence permits. From 2003 on, data include permanent, temporary, and tolerated residents. Break in series in Inflows: Number of first temporary residence permits. Outflows: Temporary and permanent migrants declaring moving abroad. Data include information regarding registrations and cancellations due to changes of residence registered in the Municipal Registers for all foreigners, by nationality, independently of their legal status. Inflows exclude asylum seekers who are staying in reception centres. Asylum seekers are registered as immigrants only after having settled in a Norwegian municipality following a positive outcome of their application. An asylum seeker whose application has been rejected will not be registered as an immigrant, even if the application process has taken a long time and the return to the home country is delayed for a significant period data include registrations of nationals of European Union Member States for the period August 2006 to December From 2004 on, the Residential Variation Statistics (RVS) also include registrations by omission and cancellations for undue registration of foreign nationals. Cancellations by expiration are included from 2006 on. Population Register, Central Bureau of Statistics. Statistics New Zealand. Statistics Norway. Office for Foreigners. Immigration and Border Control Office (SEF), National Statistical Institute (INE) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Official statistics of flows- Federal State statistics service (Rosstat) ; data on issued permits Federal Migration Service Register of Foreigners, Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. Ministry of the Interior, and National Statistical Office. RVS derived from Municipal Population Registers (Padron municipal de habitantes), National Statistical Institute (INE). 289

4 Metadata related to Tables A.1, A.2. and B.1. Inflows and outflows of foreign population Types of migrant recorded in the data Other comments Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom United States Foreigners holding a residence permit and intending to stay in the country for at least one year. Foreigners holding a permanent or an annual residence permit. Holders of an L-permit (short duration) are also included if their stay in the country is longer than 12 months. Residence permits issued for the first time to foreigners intending to stay 12 months or more in the country. Inflows: Non-British citizens admitted to the United Kingdom. Data in Table A.1. are adjusted to include short term migrants (including asylum seekers) who actually stayed longer than one year. Data by nationality in Table B.1. on inflows are not adjusted. Statistics whose coefficient of variation exceeds 30% are not shown separately but grouped under Other countries. Outflows: Non-British citizens leaving the territory of the United Kingdom. Permanent migrants: Issues of permanent residence permits. Temporary migrants: Data refer to non-immigrant visas issued, excluding visitors and transit passengers (B and C visas) and crewmembers (D visas). Includes family members. Excludes asylum seekers and temporary workers. Includes persons already present in the United States who changed status. Data cover the fiscal year (October to September of the year indicated). Population Register, Statistics Sweden. Register of Foreigners, Federal Office of Migration. General Directorate of Security, Ministry of the Interior. International Passenger Survey, Office for National Statistics. US Department of Homeland Security and Bureau of Consular Affairs, United States Department of State. Data for Serbia include persons from Serbia, Montenegro and Serbia and Montenegro. 290

5 Table B.4. Stock of foreign-born population by country of birth Thousands UNITED STATES Of which: Women 2012 (%) Mexico India Philippines China Viet Nam El Salvador Cuba Korea Dominican Republic Guatemala Canada Jamaica United Kingdom Colombia Haiti Other countries Total Note: For details on definitions and sources, please refer to the metadata at the end of the tables Metadata related to Tables A.4. and B.4. Stocks of foreign-born population Australia Austria Belgium Canada Chile Czech Republic Denmark Estimated resident population (ERP) based on Population Censuses. In between Censuses, the ERP is updated by data on births, deaths and net overseas migration. Reference date: 30 June. Stock of foreign-born residents recorded in the population register. Break in time series in Revised data for to be coherent with the results of register-based census of Reference date: 31 December (since 2002). Stock of foreign-born recorded in the population register. Excludes asylum seekers and 2006: Total immigrants (excluding non-permanent residents). Immigrants are persons who are, or have ever been, landed immigrants in Canada. A landed immigrant is a person who has been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. Some immigrants have resided in Canada for a number of years and have changed status, while others are recent arrivals. ε PM for other years Census. Register of residence permits granted for other years Census. ε CM for other years. Immigrants according to the national definition, e.g. persons born abroad to parents both foreign citizens or born abroad. When no information is available on the parents nationality/country of birth, persons born abroad are classified as immigrants. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Population Register, Statistics Austria. Prior to 2002: Labour Force Survey, Statistics Austria. Population Register, Directorate for Statistics and Economic Information (DGSIE). Statistics Canada. Register of permits of residence granted, Department of Foreigners and Migration, Ministry of the Interior. Czech Statistical Office. Statistics Denmark. Estonia Population Register. Ministry of the Interior. Finland Population register. Includes foreign-born persons of Finnish origin. Statistics Finland. France annual Censuses. National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) Census. ε PM for other years (A.4.). Including persons who were born French abroad. Germany Microcensus. Estimates in 2002 and Federal Statistical Office. 329

6 Metadata related to Tables A.4. and B.4. Stocks of foreign-born population (cont.) Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland 2001 Census. Usual foreign-born resident population. From 2010 on: Labour Force Surveys (4th quarter). Includes foreigners and ethnic Hungarians. From 2010 on, it includes refugees. From 2011 on it includes persons under subsidiary protection. From 2010 on, it includes third-country nationals holding a residence permit. National population register. Numbers from the register are likely to be overestimated. 2002, 2006 and 2011 Censuses. Persons usually resident and present in their usual residence on census night. ε PM for other years. National Statistical Service. Office of Immigration and Nationality, Central Office Administrative and Electronic Public Services (Central Population Register), Central Statistical Office. Statistics Iceland. Central Statistics Office. Israel Estimates are based on the results of the Population Censuses. Intercensal changes Central Bureau of Statistics. are estimated based on variations recorded in the Population Register. The data refer to permanent immigrants, that is, to persons who entered the country to take up permanent residence under the Law of Return or the Law of Entrance. Before 2006, the detail by country of origin (Table B.4.) includes Jews and Others and excludes Arabs whereas from 2006 on, it includes Jews only. For the whole period, the total foreign-born population (A.4.) includes Jews and Others and excludes Arabs. Data for Algeria include Tunisia until The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. Italy Population register. National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). Luxembourg 2001 and 2010: 2001 and 2011 Censuses. ε CM for other years. Central Office of Statistics and Economic Studies (Statec). Mexico From 2005 on, estimation of the total number of foreign-born from the National Survey of Occupation and Employment (ENOE). National Migration Institute (INM) and National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). Netherlands Reference date: 1 January of the following year. Population register, Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). New Zealand 2001, 2006 and 2013 Censuses. Statistics New Zealand. ε PM for other years. Norway Statistics Norway. Poland 2002 and 2011 Censuses. Central Statistical Office. Excluding foreign temporary residents who, at the time of the census, had been staying at a given address in Poland for less than 12 months. Country of birth in accordance with political (administrative) boundaries at the time of the census. Portugal 2001 and 2011 censuses. National Statistical Institute (INE) ε CM for other years. Russian Federation 2002 and 2010 Censuses. Federal state statistics service (Rosstat). Slovak Republic 2001 Census. Population who had permanent resident status at the date of the Ministry of the Interior. Census Population Register. Slovenia Central Population Register. Ministry of the Interior. Spain Population register. Municipal Registers, National Statistics Institute (INE). Reference date: 1st January (For a given year, data refer to the 1st January of the following year). Sweden Population Register, Statistics Sweden. Switzerland 2000 Census. Federal Statistical Office Population Register of the Confederation. ε CM for other years. United Kingdom 2001 Census. Office for National Statistics. From 2006 on: Labour Force Survey. Foreign-born residents. ε PM for other years. Figures are rounded. United States American Community Survey. ACS 2011 data from IPUMS-USA ( Census Bureau. Legend: Observed figures. ε Estimates (in italic) made by means of the component method (CM) or the parametric method (PM). For more details on the method of estimation, please refer to No estimate is made by country of birth (Tables B.4). Data for Serbia may include persons born in Montenegro or in Serbia and Montenegro. 330

7 Metadata related to Tables A.5. and B.5. Stocks of foreign population Austria Belgium Stock of foreign citizens recorded in the population register. Prior to 2002: annual average. Stock of foreign citizens recorded in the population register. From 2008 on, asylum seekers are included. This results in some artificial increase for some nationalities between 2007 and Population Register, Statistics Austria. Prior to 2002: Labour Force Survey, Statistics Austria. Population Register, Directorate for Statistics and Economic Information. Canada 2001, 2006 and 2011 Censuses. Statistics Canada. Czech Republic Holders of a permanent residence permit (mainly for family reasons), a long-term visa (over 90 days), a long-term residence permit (over 6 months, renewable) Foreign Information System, Ministry of the Interior Alien Police Directorate. or a temporary residence permit (EU citizens). Denmark Stock of foreign citizens recorded in the population register. Excludes asylum Statistics Denmark. seekers and all persons with temporary residence permits. Estonia Population register. Police and Border Guard Board. Finland Stock of foreign citizens recorded in the population register. Includes foreign persons of Finnish origin. Statistics Finland. France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Foreigners with permanent residence in France. Including trainees, students and illegal migrants who accept to be interviewed. Excluding seasonal and cross-border workers. Stock of foreign citizens recorded in the population register. Includes asylum seekers living in private households. Excludes foreign-born persons of German origin (Aussiedler). Decrease in 2004 is due to cross checking of residence register and central register of foreigners. Includes some undocumented foreigners. Reference date: 4th quarter. Foreigners having a residence or a settlement document. From 2010 on, it includes refugees. From 2011 on, it includes persons under subsidiary protection. Data for 2011 are adjusted to the 1 October 2011 census. Data are from the National Register of Persons. It is to be expected that figures are overestimated. Censuses, National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). Federal Office of Statistics. Labour Force Survey, National Statistical Service. Office of Immigration and Nationality, Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Statistics Iceland. Ireland Census data for 2006 and Central Statistics Office (CSO). Italy Until 2003, data refer to holders of residence permits. Children under 18 who are registered on their parents permit are not counted. Ministry of the Interior and National Statistical Institute (ISTAT). Data include foreigners who were regularised following the 1998, 2002 and 2009 programmes. Since 2004, data refer to resident foreigners (those who are registered with municipal registry offices). Japan Foreigners staying in Japan for the mid-to long-term with a resident status under Ministry of Justice, Immigration Bureau. the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act. Korea Foreigners staying in Korea more than 90 days and registered in population registers. Data have been revised since 2002 in order to include foreign nationals with Korean ancestors (called overseas Koreans) who enter with F-4 visa and are also registered in population registers. The large increase in 2003 is mainly due to a regularisation programme introduced in that year. Ministry of Justice. Luxembourg Mexico Stock of foreign citizens recorded in population register. Does not include visitors (less than three months) and cross-border workers figures are extracted from the February 2011 census. Number of foreigners who hold a valid permit for permanent residence (immigrants, FM2) or temporary residence (non immigrants, FM3). Population Register, Central Office of Statistics and Economic Studies (Statec). National Migration Institute (INM). 347

8 Metadata related to Tables A.5. and B.5. Stocks of foreign population (cont.) Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Russian Federation Stock of foreign citizens recorded in the population register. Figures include administrative corrections and asylum seekers (except those staying in reception centres). Stock of foreign citizens recorded in the population register. It excludes visitors (less than six months) and cross-border workers census data cover permanent residents, excluding those who had been staying abroad for more than 12 months. Foreign temporary residents who had been staying in Poland for less than 12 months. From 2006 on, data are from the Central Population Register. Holders of a valid residence permit. Data for include stay permits delivered following the 2001 regularisation programme as well as foreigners who received long-term permits (temporary stay, study and work) issued in each year. Data for include holders of valid residence permits, holders of valid stay permits (foreigners who renewed their stay permits) and holders of long-term visas (both issued and renewed every year). Work visas issued after 2004 include a certain number of foreigners that benefited from the regularisation scheme and also from the specific dispositions applying to Brazilian workers that resulted from a bilateral agreement. Data for women do not include the holders of long-term visas. From 2008 on, after the revision of the law and the suppression of the stay permits, figures include holders of a valid residence permit and holders of a long-term visa renewed in the year and 2010 Censuses. Since 2011 stocks of temporary and permanent residence permits holders. Population Register, Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Statistics Norway Census and Central Statistical Office. Ministry of the Interior, National Statistical Institute (INE) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Census data Federal state statistics service (Rosstat); Residence permit holders Federal Migration Service. Slovak Republic Holders of a permanent or long-term residence permit. Register of Foreigners, Ministry of the Interior. Slovenia Number of valid residence permits, regardless of the administrative status of the Ministry of the Interior. foreign national. Spain Population register. Data include all registered foreign citizens independently Municipal Registers, National Statistics Institute (INE) of their administrative status. Reference date: 1st January (For a given year, data refer to the 1st January of the following year). Sweden Stock of foreign citizens recorded in the population register. Population Register, Statistics Sweden. Switzerland Stock of all those with residence or settlement permits (permits B and C, Register of Foreigners, Federal Office of Migration. respectively). Holders of an L-permit (short duration) are also included if their stay in the country is longer than 12 months. Does not include seasonal or cross-border workers. United Kingdom Foreign residents. Those with unknown nationality from the New Commonwealth Labour Force Survey, Home Office. are not included (around to persons). There is a break in the series in 2004 as a result of a new weighting procedure. United States Foreigners born abroad. Current Population Survey, Census Bureau. Data for Serbia may include persons from Montenegro or Serbia and Montenegro. 348

9 Metadata related to Tables A.6. and B.6. Acquisitions of nationality Australia Conferrals by former country of citizenship Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Austria Data refer to persons living in Austria at the time of acquisition. Statistics Austria and BMI (Ministry of the Interior). Belgium Data refer to all acquisitions of Belgian nationality, irrespective of the type of procedure. Data only take into account those residing in the Kingdom of Belgium at the time of the acquisition. Directorate for Statistics and Economic Information (DGSEI) and Ministry of Justice. Canada Data refer to country of birth, not to country of previous nationality. Persons Citizenship and Immigration Canada. who acquire Canadian citizenship may also hold other citizenships at the same time if allowed by the country of previous nationality. Chile Register of naturalisation. Department of Foreigners and Migration, Ministry of the Interior. Czech Republic Acquisition of nationality by declaration or by naturalisation. Ministry of the Interior. Denmark Statistics Denmark. Estonia Ministry of the Interior. Finland Includes naturalisations of persons of Finnish origin. Statistics Finland. France Data by former nationality for naturalisations by anticipated declaration Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Justice. is unknown for the years 2004, 2006 and Germany Figures do not include ethnic Germans. Federal Office of Statistics. Greece Data refer to all possible types of citizenship acquisition: naturalisation, declaration (for Greek descents), adoption by a Greek, etc. Ministry of the Interior. Hungary Person naturalized in Hungary: someone who became a Hungarian citizen by naturalization (he/she was born as a foreign citizen) or by denaturalization (his former Hungarian citizenship was abolished). The rules of naturalization in Hungary were modified by the Act XLIV of The act introduced the simplified naturalization procedure from 1 January 2011, and made it possible to obtain citizenship without residence in Hungary for the foreign citizens who have Hungarian ancestors. This data refer only to those new Hungarian citizens who have an address in Hungary. Central Office Administrative and Electronic Public Services (Central Population Register), Hungarian Central Statistical Office, National Emplyoment Office. Iceland Includes children who receive Icelandic citizenship with their parents. Statistics Iceland. Ireland From 2005 on, figures include naturalisations and Post nuptial citizenship figures. Department of Justice and Equality. Italy Ministry of the Interior. Japan Ministry of Justice, Civil Affairs Bureau. Korea Ministry of Justice. Luxembourg Excludes children acquiring nationality as a consequence of the naturalisation Ministry of Justice. of their parents. Mexico Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE). Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). New Zealand The country of origin of persons granted New Zealand citizenship is the country Department of Internal Affairs. of birth if birth documentation is available. If not, the country of origin is the country of citizenship as shown on the person s passport. Norway Statistics Norway. Poland From 2002 on, data include naturalisations by marriage and acknowledgment Office for Repatriation and Aliens. of persons of Polish descent, in addition to naturalisation by ordinary procedure. Portugal From 2008 on, following the modification of the law on Portuguese citizenship in 2006 and 2007, the data include every foreigner who used to have a foreign National Statistical Office (INE) and Ministry of Justice (Central register). citizenship and obtained Portuguese citizenship in the given year. Until 2007, data exclude acquisitions of nationality due to marriage or adoption. Russian Federation Excludes citizenship acquired through consulates. From 2009 on, applicants to Russian citizenship must have stayed in the country as temporary residents for at least a year, and as permanent residents for at least five years. Majority of applicants acquire ciitizenship through simplified procedure, waiting period is much shorter. Federal Migration Service. 368

10 Metadata related to Tables A.6. and B.6. Acquisitions of nationality (cont.) Slovak Republic Data refer to persons living in Slovak Republic at the time of acquisition. Ministry of the Interior. Slovenia Include all grounds on which the citizenship was obtained. Ministry of the Interior Internal Administrative Affairs, Migration and Naturalisation Directorate. Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom United States Includes only naturalisations on grounds of residence in Spain. The large increase in the number of naturalizations during 2013 is due to the Intensive File Processing Nationality Plan (Plan Intensivo de tramitación de expedientes de Nacionalidad) carried out by the Ministry of Justice.. The increase in 2009 is partly due to the processing of a backlog of applications filled prior to Data by country of birth refer to fiscal years (October to September of the year indicated). Data for Serbia may include persons from Montenegro or Serbia and Montenegro. Ministry of Employment and Social Security, based on naturalisations registered by the Ministry of Justice. Statistics Sweden. Federal Office of Migration. Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs. Home Office. US Department of Homeland Security. 369