What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby?
The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
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Letter and photos belonging to doctor who treated James Connolly before execution to be returned to Ireland
Dr Joseph Chamney Ridgway who served in the British Army – including as a medical officer in Uganda – was staying at the Shelbourne Hotel over Easter 1916
A meeting about anti-social behaviour discusses asylum seekers in East Wall – without giving them a chance to be heard
“It’s hard for us to prove ourselves because they’re making sure that we’re not in the meetings,” says Cynthia Lebuli.
Help us report: a quick survey for non-EU immigrants who fly with Ryanair
Have you been asked for a transit visa, when you don’t need one?
A woman searches for space to offer yoga classes to minority women
With Superwomen Everywhere, she hopes to reach women who may avoid yoga because they feel out of place.
Ryanair staff required transit visas from Chinese residents of Ireland passing through the UK, even though they don’t need them
“I feel like they’re not familiar with visa policy,” says Huimin Ye, who missed her trip to Vienna to visit a friend as a result.
Caught in deportation limbo for a year and a half so far, a woman waits, hopes and stresses
“I want to get my status and find a job to survive,” Wai Ling Chan said on a recent Monday, sitting at a table in the corner of a café in Smithfield.
Review of government supports for PhD researchers leaves questions unanswered, problems unsolved, union says
Who does a recommended stipend increase apply to? Union members ask. And what about recognising them as workers? And addressing immigration issues?
A new system to speed up citizenship applications is working, but that means newer applicants are effectively jumping the queue
Ashfaq Afridi applied in 2021 and is still waiting. Meanwhile, he’s watching people who applied much more recently, under the new system, get decisions.
A DCU student fights eviction from a direct-provision centre, hoping to keep the life she’s built
She hasn’t been able to find a place to rent in Dublin, near her work and college – and if she moves to the place on offer in Clare, she’ll have to give them up.
A Garda superintendent hopes to build more trust between ethnic-minority communities and the Gardaí
Since February, Superintendent Seán Fallon has been supervisor of the Garda National Diversity and Integration Unit.
With visit visas short and family reunion expensive, spending more time with parents hard for lower-income immigrants
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said its policy document on the family reunification process is currently under review.
As the Dublin embassies of some European countries outsource Schengen visa services, non-EU immigrants find travelling there harder
The services are now more expensive, and the companies managing them are less flexible and harder to contact than the embassies were, would-be travellers say.