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Reasons for admission 1994-2008

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Reasons for admission in 2008

	Total	%	o/w Africa	%	o/w Asia	%
Family member	77 044	49%	54 804	61%	7 736	24%
Minor	9 506	6%	6 210	7%	933	3%
Married to a foreign national	11 938	8%	8 223	9%	1 189	4%
Married to a French national	35 225	23%	25 396	28%	3 522	11%
Direct relative of a French national	9 799	6%	8 139	9%	481	2%
"Private and family life" permit	10 576	7%	6 836	8%	1 611	5%
Worker	17 561	11%	8 927	10%	3 215	10%
Student	40 979	26%	16 679	18%	15 744	50%
Humanitarian protection	12 603	8%	6 552	7%	3 044	10%
Refugee and stateless	7 533	5%	2 620	3%	2 522	8%
Residence permit on health grounds	5 070	3%	3 932	4%	522	2%
Regularization	1 463	1%	887	1%	510	2%
Economically independent	6 326	4%	2 675	3%	1 444	5%
Visitor	5 188	3%	1 553	2%	1 444	5%
"Retired" residence permit	1 138	1%	1 122	1%	0	0%
Unknown reason	80	0%	57	0%	7	0%
Total (1)	156 056	100%	90 581	100%	31 700	100%

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Metropolitan France
(1) All nationalities except EU members and EEA countries (15 member states of the European Union + Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway and 12 new members)
Source: compiled by INED from sources obtained from the central file of residence permit (AGDREF) of Ministère de l'Immigration, de l'intégration, de l'identité‚ nationale et du développement solidaire.

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