In the past our rules were rather lax; we only required someone to have lived abroad for at least two years, and to have acquired the right of permanent residence in the foreign country, for them to register as an expatriate.
過去我們的規定比較鬆，只要在國外居住滿兩年，取得國外的永久居留權，就可以加簽僑居，變成僑民。