Administrative Police Division - Residency Section

This section is responsible for activities subject to prior authorisation/ declaration:

• Reviewing applications for work permits: administrative investigations, notification of solemn warnings, review of preliminary or legal appeals
• Reviewing applications to carry out regulated professions (in gaming houses, medical and health professions, civil service, insurance agents and brokers, etc.) and, more specifically, private security services for people and property (remit, applicants, license to carry weapons)
• Reviewing applications to carry out a commercial activity
• Reviewing applications for late closing, music and musical performance permits for businesses open to the public (and renewals)
• Reviewing applications to import, purchase, possess and carry firearms (and renewals)
• Dealing with prior declarations relating to ownership of dangerous dogs
• Conducting administrative investigations relating to the staff of suppliers working at sensitive sites (Prince’s Palace, remand prison, etc.) or at cultural or sporting events where there is deemed to be a risk (Grand Prix events, Monaco Yacht Show, etc.)
• Issuing notifications relating to expulsion orders and reviewing appeals against such orders
• Checking police records (antiques and period pieces, weapons, precious metals and chemists)
• Handling miscellaneous requests (address searches for heirs, verification of artist status – moral standing of recipients, applications to change surname, requests for details to be removed from criminal records, etc.)
• Conducting investigations of applicants for consular posts 

This section has two branches:

1 - Inquiries Unit

This unit is responsible for handling residency cases in the strict sense, formal checks of accident at work declarations.

2 - Residency Check Unit

• Review of applications for residency certificates
• Review of applications for certificates of domicile (and renewals)
• Review of applications for certificates proving habitual residence in the Principality (and renewals)
• Confirmation of residency, in response to an instruction or at the branch’s initiative
• Notification of administrative measures with an adverse impact
• Review of appeals against administrative measures with an adverse impact (withdrawal of permit, reclassification of permit, recognition of a break in residency, etc.)
• Review of requests for reports on residency in the Principality from judicial and administrative authorities, whether local or foreign
• Residency investigations relating to requests for Monegasque criminal records
• Procedure relating to violations of residency by foreign nationals