21.   Dominguez, their agent, said they have temporary residency and are awaiting notification on their request for permanent status.

22.   Entering the World Trade Organization, however, would give China many of the benefits of permanent favored status.

23.   FBI officials said that foreigners normally do not have privacy rights unless they have achieved permanent resident status.

24.   Foreign-born people are permitted to join the American military, provided they have attained permanent resident status.

25.   Gao holds permanent resident status in the United States and was in line for citizenship.

26.   Gore wants Congress to pass a special law granting permanent resident status to the boy, his father, and five other relatives.

27.   Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, the presumed Republican nominee, supports permanent normal trading status as a condition of bringing China into the World Trade Organization.

28.   Gore recently supported a congressional bill that would give Elian, his father and members of that family permanent resident status in the United States during court hearings.

29.   He also parted company with the Clinton administration by supporting legislation to grant permanent resident status to the boy, his father and other relatives.

30.   He also said those leaders must reverse earlier policies and give Palestinian refugees permanent status in their countries.