Translation of "permis de séjour exceptionnel " (French → English) :

11. Calls on the Member States, in compliance with Directive 2004/81/EC, when considering applications for autonomous legal status, to take due account of the circumstances of women immigrants who are victims of violence, in particular victims of physical and psychological violence including the continuing practice of forced or arranged marriage and to ensure that all administrative measures are taken to protect such women, including effective access to assistance and protection mechanisms; calls on the Member States to simplify the procedures for granting a temporary or permanent residence permit to victims of the sex trade on the basis of the provisions of the abovementioned Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons ...[+++], especially women and children, and to adopt measures to approve special residence permits in exceptional circumstances in order to enable foreign victims without legal status to escape from violence;

Fixed-term residence permits are issued for a residence of temporary nature (temporary residence permit) or of continuous nature (continuous residence permit).

In most Member States, third-country nationals need to be in possession of a work permit prior to the examination of the application for the residence permit: there could therefore be the impression that the issuing of a residence permit – based on different criteria from the work permit – would become almost automatic under the combined procedure, which is not the intention of the Commission.

Overstayers also, whose residence permits have expired, are the subject of return measures as well as legal residents whose residence permits have been revoked.

Issued for a limited period of time and subject to cancellation at any time, Temporary Resident Permits give CIC the flexibility to address exceptional circumstances.

A TRP is a facilitative document that allows CIC to admit exceptional cases that fall outside the rules.