What is the difference between obtaining residency permit and citizenship?
There are fundamental differences between residency permit (migration) and granting citizenship (naturalization). Residency permits are often time limited and you need to maintain several conditions to keep them valid. Under residency permission, you will have limited right to live, involvement, business and travel and most of the most of the citizen rights are applicable to you. However, as a citizen (or national) you have every single right whoever else has by decent or birth. You are no longer limited in time and place, or business and travel or involvement. You may even consider very high level positions such as country president. Residency Permits are often expiring if you are out of country for more than 6 months, when citizenship is forever, transferring to your children and their children. In some countries where staying for a specific time is required to apply for citizenship, this process takes several years. Such as in UK it takes 5 years at least (without leaving country fo