by shannons | May 10, 2021 | China, Immigrant Investor Programme, Immigration Law
Brexit could prompt wealthy Chinese citizens to invest up to €65 million extra in the Republic under the Government’s cash for visas scheme, experts claim. Under the Government’s Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP), which raised €826 million between 2012 and 2019,...
by shannons | Aug 29, 2019 | Blog, Immigration Law
With so much talk of Brexit at the moment, the deadline of the 31st October 2019 looming ever closer and the real possibility of a “no deal” Brexit, the signing of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2019 – “the...
by shannons | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog, Immigration Law
We recently wrote about the Sadiq case where the High Court issued a judgement which we believe was highly critical of the manner in which the Department of Justice and Equality dealt with family reunification cases (Sadiq & Ors v the Minister for Justice and...
by shannons | Aug 22, 2019 | Immigration Law
One of the main difficulties we have noted in recent years is that many applications for Work Permits have been rejected because the person’s skills were said to be surplus to Irish requirements. Happily, the Employment Permit (Amendment) Regulations 2019 were enacted...
by shannons | Aug 22, 2019 | Immigration Law
Many of you will be familiar with the recent High Court case where Judge Barrett ruled that applicants for Irish citizenship by naturalisation requires “a period of one year’s continuous residence in the State immediately before the date of the application”. One year...
by shannons | Aug 14, 2019 | Immigration Law
An interesting Visa application case was recently decided in the High Court and the Court’s decision should have been front page news because it said so much about the Immigration system in Ireland. The case is called Sadiq, Usman and Zareen Taj and ors v Minister...
