Migrants become long-term residents through policies that receive the third worst score in the 28 after IE, LT, CY. After five years of legal residence, migrants are eligible to become long-term residents. Applicants still have to go through a long and expensive procedure, including the new, least favourable conditions introduced by the CESEDA (see box). Long-term residents have a slight security in their status that nevertheless ranks third out of the 28 after BE and SE. They can be expelled even if they were born and socialised in France or have lived there for many years. They have the right to move freely and live within the EU for up to six years, but not to take another long-term residence permit. They still do not enjoy the same access as nationals to employment.
