agniukas wrote:it only applies to people who were granted refugee status and do not have their national passports anymore.
it does not apply to you wife

Great. So she doesn't need to send a passport in?

My wife got the letter stating "the minister intends to grant your application"... Just need to send the money, photos, GNIB and... "Original Travel Document (if applicable). Please do not submit your/your client's own national passport" What does this mean? Whats an 'original tr...

Thanks for your replies. I had another idea - my mother-in-law is shy of her English and is always wishing to improve it. I thought that she might be agreeable to do a language course in Dublin - which would give her a visa and, importantly, give her something to do during the day and help her meet ...

Back in 2007 my wife paid non-EU fees to UCC. I spent months arguing with them but they wouldn't accept her for EU fees. They claimed that the individual student must have paid income tax in the previous 3 years in some EU country, and that the income tax of the spouce was not taken into account. I ...

I have what is probably an unusual visa question. I'm Irish, living in Ireland with my wife and son. My wife's mother is very close to us, and particularly close to my young son. She visits twice a year for a few months each time and has never had difficultly getting a single entry visitors visa. Sh...

ferrellk wrote:I may be showing my ignorance...but why can't you look for new work while working for your current employer?

You can look, but if you find a job you have to being the whole process of getting a work permit from the beginning.

I'm an Algerian and I married an Italian almost two years ago. We applied for me to live in Ireland as I'm married to an Italian. We recieved a letter of refusal from the Immigration office. Their "thinking" is that you must have lived in another EU country with your spouse to quliafy to ...

I'm a US citizen living in Ireland. I have a work permit for the specific company I work at. I will be getting it renewed this month for another 3 years. However, this means that I have to work here if I want to stay in Ireland, right? Once I get the new work permit, I assume I will get my passport...

Dawie wrote:They might as well put a sign up saying "Whites only".

It would be more honest if they did.

Reading the new " Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill ", point 14-(10)-j on page 21 indicates that deportation for those guilty of thought crimes will continue. (10) There are included in the reasons why the Minister may consider a refusal [of entry] justified the following: that in...

If you're married to an Irish citizen, rather than an EU citizen, things are a lot easier. My wife and I (Irish) arrived to the GNIB office one thursday afternoon last summer. We had been in Ireland for a few months, I'd found a job and she was looking. We'd lived in the UK before and it had taken 6...

Switzerland has already signed up to Schengen BBC News And the border posts are due to be dismantled in 2008 Do not bank on news item dated 2005. Govt changed, policy turns. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2719688.ece That article doesn't even mention Schengen. Switzerland...

HSMP_maybe wrote:Switzerland will not join Schengen next year.

Switzerland has already signed up to Schengen

BBC News

And the border posts are due to be dismantled in 2008

What I find strange about the Canada/USA border is that while European states with similar economic growth and wealth are moving towards erasing international borders - for example the planned entry of 9 new states into the Schengen agreement, the USA and Canada are moving to increase security and ...

If the Republic of Ireland were to join the Schengen agreement it would mean imposing border controls between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland of the type you currently see between, say, the United States and Mexico. Can you imagine the outrage of cross-border communities having to queu...

Missing one key fact - Australia, Canada, South Africa etc have no interest in belonging to Europe, ideologically or politically. Whereas Israel may feel it is among nations who are hostile to its existence and views Europe as an ancestral identity in a "mostly" positive sense. I'm afraid...

archigabe wrote: unlike other countries, India was one of the few places where they were not forced out.

Iran too. There are still 50,000 Jews in Iran, and they show no signs of wanting to leave. Israel has even offered them 10k a head to move, but only a handful have.

I agree. Of course in many cases they were kicked out forcibly (think holocaust,pogroms in Russia&Poland) and still face hostility in many parts of the world. One reason why they should consider improving human rights situation in Israel. Most of the population of Australia in the 19th century ...

Technically that is incorrect. The whole of Palestine was part of the Ottoman empire before the 1st world war and then was a British Mandate territory up until the UN decided to mess it all up in 1948. Before that it was ruled by the European crusaders and of course let's not forget the Romans too ...

I think there is a danger that if you leave the UK to work in another country that it will effect your application for UK citizenship.

You should check this out - but if you are applying for citizenship based on residence in the UK, you surely have to be resident in the UK!

Will this situation change when Switzerland joins Schengen next year?

EU members have to meet minimum human rights and democracy standards. Israel will have to improve in these areas before it can even be considered.

But on the geography question, Cyprus is 100% geographically in Asia - so not being in Europe need not be a hindrance.

I finally got a proper answer out of the Czechs:

From the date of our accession to the Schengen area (probably from December 31st 2007) we will accept valid Schengen visas.

As opposed to land borders, border checks at international airports will remain in place for flights within the enlarged Schengen area probably until 29 March 2008. Does this mean that from January, in practice, aliens with a Czech residence permit will be able to travel to Schengen without a visa ...

According to this webpage :- The European Council of December 2006 welcomed the prospect of internal border controls being abolished as of December 2007 (land and sea borders) and by March 2008 (air borders) at the latest, provided all the conditions for application of the Schengen acquis have been...