The Department of Justice (INIS) has announced changes to the rules that apply to international students who work in Ireland recently. In the past, students could work 20 hours per week during the term time of their particular college, and…
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On recent changes to the employment rules for international students and botched attempts to clean up the industry
Tagged with: employment, hours per week, INIS, international students, internationalisation register, non EEA, Stamp 2, term times
Posted in Immigration
Posted in Immigration
If you live in Direct Provision, your room is your castle.
Last Friday’s widely-reported High Court judgement in the case of C.A. & T.A. v Minister for Justice brought some important relief to residents now, and provided hope for future applicants. The Judgement hasn’t been published yet, but the main details…
Posted in Immigration
What is Subsidiary Protection? Who can apply for it, and how?
In January 2014, a new system for assessing claims for Subsidiary Protection was introduced in Ireland. This article will explain what Subsidiary Protection is, and how Ireland’s new system works. Subsidiary Protection is a form of protection that may protect…
Posted in Immigration
Immigration law and families – what are the rules in Ireland?
If you are a refugee, a citizen of another European state, or an Irish person returning to Ireland from another EU state, there are laws that provide you with the right to be joined in Ireland by your non-EU family…
Posted in Immigration, Uncategorized
Supreme Court says Minister should have stated his reasons for refusing naturalisation
The mystery that has surrounded many decisions to refuse naturalisation is no longer acceptable, following a Supreme Court Decision of the 6th of December 2012 (Mallak v MJELR [2012] IESC 59, here). The issue for decision in the case was…
Tagged with: citizenship, grounds, immigration, Mallak, naturalisation, naturalization, negative decision, reasons, refusal
Posted in Immigration
Posted in Immigration
Eligibility for citizenship of Ireland: what is “reckonable residency”?
In order to have their applications for citizenship of Ireland by “naturalisation”, considered, immigrants are required to have resided in the state with the required immigration permissions for a given period (per Part III of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship…
Posted in Immigration
Deportation orders are forever. A recent High Court decision examined whether that’s too long.
A recent judgement from Kearns J in the High Court (Sivsivade & Ors -v- Minister for Justice & Ors, 2012 IEHC 244, June 2012) upheld a Deportation Order which the applicants had argued was in breach of the Irish Constitution…
Posted in Immigration
UK Supreme Court crushes immigration policy there
The UK Supreme Court made a historic ruling on the 18th of July, when it ruled that the authorities cannot rely on complex immigration rules that are the policy of the current government, and which have never been made lawful…
Posted in Immigration
