foreign national

English

Noun

foreign national (plural foreign nationals)

1. A non-naturalized citizen of a country
   • 2012 March 7, Byron Chu, “Hotel Linked to ‘Passport Babies’”, in Toronto Sun‎^[1], retrieved 18 February 2014:

     Three townhouses in Richmond, B.C., are being used to house foreign nationals pregnant with “passport babies,” and are among numerous local housing destinations for birth tourists.

   • 2017, Are undocumented immigrants committing a crime? Not necessarily CNN‎^[2]:

     Under federal law, it is a crime for anyone to enter into the US without the approval of an immigration officer -- it's a misdemeanor offense that carries fines and no more than six months in prison. Many foreign nationals, however, enter the country legally every day on valid work or travel visas, and end up overstaying for a variety of reasons. But that's not a violation of federal criminal law -- it's a civil violation that gets handled in immigration court proceedings.

   • 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC‎^[3]:

     In the last two years crackdowns on various sectors of the economy, as well as prominent Chinese businessmen, have caused uncertainty. These have recently widened to include foreign nationals and firms, heightening worries in the international business community.

Translations

• French: ressortissant (fr) m, ressortissante (fr) f